A senior government official has called for showing care and
love towards unattended rural children whose parents have left
their hometown to work in other parts of the country to support the
family.
"Do something substantial, better and useful for these
unattended children, so that they can grow up in health in the warm
arms of the big, socialist family," said State Councilor Hua
Jianmin in a message to a national conference held in Changsha,
capital of Hunan Province from December 2 to December 3.
Premier Wen Jiabao visits children of
rural migrant workers in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, May
26, 2007 (file photo)
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Youth League
(CCYL) and the National Committee for the Work of Children
sponsored the meeting to increase public awareness about the issue
of unattended children in the countryside.
The conference is good for promoting public concerns over the
issue, the healthy development of the underaged, and the building
of a harmonious socialist society, said Hua.
The Healthy development of unattended rural children has a
bearing on the interests of rural people, on the building of the
socialist new countryside, social harmony and stability, and the
future of the nation, the official said.
Hua called for joint efforts from the Communist Party of China
(CPC), the government, the CCYL and other organizations to help the
unattended rural children.
The CCYL has launched "a hand-in-hand" program to set up
partnership between attended and unattended children in the
countryside, and between urban children and unattended rural
children.
(Xinhua News Agency December 4, 2007)
