The "left-behind" children are children1 parents are working in cities far away from them. A program called On the Way to School did a research among 2, 000 children living in poor areas. The research2 that 15. 1% of children were unable to see their parents in a whole year, even during the Spring Festival. About 8. 9 million children could talk with their parents3 the phone only once or twice a year. And about 15. 2 million children could get phone calls from4 parents every three months.
Yang Hai lives in a village with his grandparents. His parents work in Fuzhou, a city thousands of kilometers5 . His grandparents love him and6 him well. But he said he still7 his parents.
Now more people in the country8 to work in cities and leave their children home. The. government is trying to do9 to protect the children at home and free their parents from worries about their children. "Children10 be with their parents very often， so we should give them more care and love, " said one official.
