{"id":14522,"date":"2018-09-17T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=14522"},"modified":"2018-09-16T05:07:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T09:07:17","slug":"china-left-behind-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/china-left-behind-children\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019 Left-Behind Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14523\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14523\" class=\" wp-image-14523\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/children-350x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/children-350x242.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/children-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/children-1024x707.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese children (photo by Ayana)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since 1978, China has experienced the largest internal migration in human history. Young and old leave their homes in the countryside searching for jobs and opportunities in the crowded cities. Instead of cultivating the family fields, they prefer to make a living in the metropolis. The big cities of China, which has become known as \u201cthe world\u2019s factory\u201d, need working hands. Factories, construction sites, cleaning services, etc. require enormous unskilled manpower.<\/p>\n<p>\u57ce\u5e02ch\u00e9ngsh\u00ec = city<\/p>\n<p>\u90fd\u5e02d\u016bsh\u00ec = metropolis<\/p>\n<p>\u6253\u5de5d\u01ceg\u014dng = to temp<\/p>\n<p>The incessant demand for labor in the cities attracts men and women from all over the country wishing to improve their lives. Some of them are parents heading to the city to earn money to support their family. While Chinese bureaucracy allows them to work outside their county, it doesn\u2019t permit their children an eligible status in the city. According to the Chinese residence permits system, public services like schools and hospitals can only be accessed where you live.<\/p>\n<p>\u7236\u6bcdf\u00f9m\u01d4 = parents<\/p>\n<p>\u513f\u7ae5\u00e9rt\u00f3ng = child<\/p>\n<p>\u519c\u6751n\u00f3ngc\u016bn = the countryside<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u519c\u6751\u7559\u5b88\u513f\u7ae5\u7684\u7236\u6bcd\u53cc\u65b9\u5916\u51fa\u53bb\u7e41\u534e\u90fd\u5e02\u6253\u5de5\u3002<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>N\u00f3ngc\u016bn li\u00fash\u01d2u \u00e9rt\u00f3ng de f\u00f9m\u01d4 shu\u0101ngf\u0101ng w\u00e0i ch\u016bq\u00f9 f\u00e1nhu\u00e1 d\u016bsh\u00ec d\u01ceg\u014dng.<\/p>\n<p>Both parents of rural left-behind children go out to work in bustling cities.<\/p>\n<p>Many Chinese parents make a difficult decision: they leave home in order to provide their children a better future. About 60 million kids, known as \u201cthe left-behind children\u201d (\u7559\u5b88\u513f\u7ae5li\u00fash\u01d2u \u00e9rt\u00f3ng), remain back at home in the village, while their parents move to a city. In the fourth largest country in the world, the distance can be enormous. Most of these families reunite only once a year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u7559\u5b88\u513f\u7ae5\u662f\u4e0d\u5728\u7236\u6bcd\u8eab\u8fb9\u751f\u6d3b\u7684\u513f\u7ae5<sub>\u3002<\/sub><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Li\u00fash\u01d2u \u00e9rt\u00f3ng sh\u00ec b\u00f9z\u00e0i f\u00f9m\u01d4 sh\u0113nbi\u0101n sh\u0113nghu\u00f3 de \u00e9rt\u00f3ng.<\/p>\n<p>Left-behind children are children who do not live with their parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u5728\u57ce\u5e02\u6323\u94b1\u5feb\u4e00\u70b9 (z\u00e0i ch\u00e9ngsh\u00ec zh\u00e8ng qi\u00e1n ku\u00e0i y\u012bdi\u01cen, means \u201cmaking money in the city is faster\u201d), explains the father in the video below. He and his wife left their kids with their grandfather and moved thousands of kilometers away to provide the family a monthly allowance. \u6211\u5e0c\u671b\u5988\u5988\u7238\u7238\u5728\u9644\u8fd1\u6253\u5de5 (w\u01d2 x\u012bw\u00e0ng m\u0101m\u0101 b\u00e0ba z\u00e0i f\u00f9j\u00ecn d\u01ceg\u014dng, means \u201cI wish mom and dad would work nearby\u201d), says the son who hasn\u2019t seen his parents for a year. More than 40 hours of train ride separates him from his parents, who visit only during Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What happens to the children left behind by China&#039;s industrial boom?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RljKp39I3jo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u7559\u5b88\u513f\u7ae5\u7684\u7236\u6bcd\u4e3a\u4e86\u751f\u8ba1\u8fdc\u8d70\u4ed6\u4e61\u3002<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Li\u00fash\u01d2u \u00e9rt\u00f3ng de f\u00f9m\u01d4 w\u00e8ile sh\u0113ngj\u00ec yu\u01cen z\u01d2u t\u0101xi\u0101ng.<\/p>\n<p>Parents of left-behind children make a living far away from the village.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the 60 million left-behind children are left to be raised by the older generation. Their grandparents replace their parents. But some of the left-behind children are less lucky. They are left all by themselves, without any adult at home. They are burdened with the farm work, the house chores, the younger siblings and the awful loneliness. Like these kids from Sichuan province:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Are Millions of Chinese Kids Parenting Themselves?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gG9YHMcLK2Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u3000<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>\u597d\u597d\u5b66\u4e60\uff0c\u5929\u5929\u5411\u4e0a\uff01<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>\u200d\u200d\u200d\u200d\u200d\u200d<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/children-350x242.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/children-350x242.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/children-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/children-1024x707.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Since 1978, China has experienced the largest internal migration in human history. Young and old leave their homes in the countryside searching for jobs and opportunities in the crowded cities. Instead of cultivating the family fields, they prefer to make a living in the metropolis. The big cities of China, which has become known as&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/china-left-behind-children\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":14523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14522","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14524,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions\/14524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}