The many migrant workers in China often leave behind their children when they leave to go to other places in the country to work. Sometimes the children are left with grandparents, but they are more often left with distant relatives, and they end up having mainly taking care of themselves from an early age.

This eight-minute documentary is a sad look at China’s children of migrant workers. The narration is in Cantonese, but the children and the interviews are in Mandarin (subtitles are in English).

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