BEIJING--Chinese
Premier Wen Jiabao has visited the “left-behind”(留守)children
whose parents are working in cities before Children's Day.
During a visit to northwest China's Shaanxi Province,Wen visited the home of Yang Saike,a primary school boy in a village of XingpingCity.
Yang,whose parents were
working in Fujian,thousands of
kilometers away,was cared for by his
grandparents.His parents fail to go
home even once a year.
The premier held Yang in his antis and looked through his exercisebook and praised him for his hard work.
Wen talked with many children and asked them many questions abouttheir schooling and life.
“You are so pretty,” Wen said to Liu
Mengqi,a seven-year-old girl
living with her grandmother.Liu's parents were
also working in the city.
“Have you been to school yet?” Wen asked two other girls.
“We are going to the pre-school class,”said one.
“Mom and dad at home?” Wen asked.Thechildren shook their heads.
“Children cannot see their parents very often,which is a new problem in the countryside.We should give them more care and love,”said the premier.
With fast economic(经济的)development,more people in the country chose to work incities and left their children with grandparents or relatives back home,said Wen.
The premier asked local governments to do something to protect and
care for such children at home and freeing their parents in cities from worriesabout their children.