Farm work, tears and tough lessons: Inside China’s ‘hardship camps’ for children
- SHANGHAI: “You spent money on a plane ticket just to make me do this work,” the young boy wailed, pointing at the camera.
- "Sent by his parents from Shanghai to the mountains of Guizhou, the boy cried and complained - but he did the work: chopping firewood, hauling bricks and pulling out weeds from the fields.
- The clip was one of many that flooded Chinese social media this summer, showing children labouring on farms and, between sobs, telling the camera what they had endured.
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- SHANGHAI: “You spent money on a plane ticket just to make me do this work,” the young boy wailed, pointing at the camera.
- "Sent by his parents from Shanghai to the mountains of Guizhou, the boy cried and complained - but he did the work: chopping firewood, hauling bricks and pulling out weeds from the fields.
- The clip was one of many that flooded Chinese social media this summer, showing children labouring on farms and, between sobs, telling the camera what they had endured.
Sources: CNA