The "leftbehind" children (留守儿童) are children whose parents are working in cities far away from them. A program1On the Way to School did a research(调查)among 2，000 children living in poor areas. The research showed that 15. 1% of the children can't see their2 in a whole year, even during the Spring Festival. About 8. 9 million children could talk with their parents on the phone only once or twice a year. And about 15. 2 million children could get phone calls from 3 parents every three months.
Yang Hai lives in a(n)4 with his grandparents. His parents work in Fuzhou, a city thousands of kilometers away from his village. His grandparents love him and5him well. But he said he still6 his parents.
Now more people in the country7 to work in cities and leave their children at home. The government(政府)is trying to do 8 to protect the children at home and free (消除) their parents' 9about their children. "The leftbehind children can't be with their parents very often, 10we should give them more care and love, " said one official (官员).
