Child Labor - China

Last day, we had already discovered Pakistan, now we are heading to China, which is the third largest numbers of child labor concerned. Due to the poverty, many children or families have been migrating from the western to the southern coast of China, because these regions will provide more opportunities to earn. Most workshops and factories use maximum child labor -


Toy manufacturing


Production


Textiles


Construction


Food production


Light mechanical work


Due to number of reasons and poverty, the income of the children help improved certain amount of the financial situation of the family. But some children didn't tell their parent, because as they notice the value of their income of the family.





It is a huge problem of child labor in China, there are evidences showing in nowadays, the rate of child labor still increasing significantly, it is estimated that about 10 millions of children out of school and over 5 millions are working in factories, According to the report of Si Chuan, China's most popular province - (the place of May 12, 2008, the Great Sichuan earthquake) 85% of children were dropped out of school to work in elsewhere. Even in some less popular provinces or cities, over 20% working force are made up of children, For example - in 1994, about 48 Chinese brick-shop-workers kidnapped over 100 children. It is known that forty of those children were forced to work 10 hours a day, but with no wage whatsoever. China’s child labor cannot be overlooked.



WORKING AT HOME: Two girls in China’s Zhejiang province, both 12, make tinfoil papers used in a ritual for the dead. (Xu Qiang / For The Times)



In the village below Wuxu Hai I snapped this young kid already at work in the fields with a basket full of corn stalks on his back.