WHEN the case of “Snowflake Boy” Wang Fuman (pic) went viral in China – and worldwide – last month, it drew attention to the plight of China's 61 million “left behind” children, whose parents work in faraway cities.
Wang, who was left in the care of his grandmother while his migrant worker father worked in Kunming, had to trek for an hour in the freezing cold to get to his school in remote Yunnan.
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