{"id":10925,"date":"2007-01-24T11:11:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T18:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/01\/24\/as-china-booms-millions-of-children-are-left-behind-wsj\/"},"modified":"2007-01-24T11:11:27","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T18:11:27","slug":"as-china-booms-millions-of-children-are-left-behind-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/01\/as-china-booms-millions-of-children-are-left-behind-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"As China Booms, Millions of Children Are Left Behind &#8211; WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"_41412206_afp_rice203.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/_41412206_afp_rice203.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" \/><br \/>\nWall Street Journal&#8217;s page one story on liushou ertong (\u00c1\u00ef\u00f4\u00c2\u00c6\u00e0\u00c2\u00d1\u00f8\u00c1\u00b4\u2022) (photo: left-behind children via <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/41412000\/jpg\/_41412206_afp_rice203.jpg&#038;imgrefurl=http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/4782194.stm&#038;h=152&#038;w=203&#038;sz=14&#038;hl=en&#038;start=3&#038;tbnid=b05HGnfDm0_H2M:&#038;tbnh=79&#038;tbnw=105&#038;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dleft-behind%2Bchildren%2Bchina%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG\">BBC News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a sparsely furnished farmhouse, about a half mile from a main road in the poor, rural province of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anhui\">Anhui<\/a>, 16-year-old Zhao Yan has lived on her own for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>She goes to school, tends to the family rice farm and waits for her father&#8217;s periodic visits home. &#8220;I miss my dad a lot,&#8221; says the teen, dressed in jeans and a lime-colored hooded sweatshirt.<\/p>\n<p>As China&#8217;s cities continue to develop, the government expects the migrant-worker population &#8212; and the numbers of left-behind children &#8212; will rise. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/State_Council_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China\">State Council<\/a> Research Office reported in April that the 200 million people in nation&#8217;s rural migrant-labor force make an average of about $60 to $100 a month. Many of these workers were just getting by on subsistence farming before leaving. [<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB116959002141185426-search.html?KEYWORDS=millions+of+children+are+left+behind&#038;COLLECTION=wsjie\/6month\">Full Text<\/a>, subscribers only]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Also LA Times&#8217; <a href=\"\/2006\/07\/orphans_of_the_chinese_economy_chingching_ni.php\">Orphans of the Chinese Economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal&#8217;s page one story on liushou ertong (\u00c1\u00ef\u00f4\u00c2\u00c6\u00e0\u00c2\u00d1\u00f8\u00c1\u00b4\u2022) (photo: left-behind children via BBC News): In a sparsely furnished farmhouse, about a half mile from a main road in the poor, rural province of Anhui, 16-year-old Zhao Yan has lived on her own for more than two years. 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