In 2014, in order to find better paid jobs, around 250 million parents in China rushed to more developed coastal cities from their inland homes. As a result, the so called ‘left behind’ children, more than 61 million of them, stayed at home in rural areas to look after themselves, or remain under the supervision of their close neighbors or elderly relatives. This annual break brings with it the once-in-a-year opportunity for them to be briefly reunited with their biological parents.
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