Chinese authorities are holding high level talks to devise measures to help children in trouble. Poverty, physical disability, domestic violence and abandon have put a great number of children in China at risk. Officials are making plans to take care of them in accordance with their needs and to make sure they get proper medical care, education, and welfare benefits.

The number of the left behind whose parents are out working for living is going down. Rural communities registered 560 thousand fewer "left-behind" children in 2015. About 20 million "left-behind children" attended rural primary and junior high schools in 2015, down from 20.7 million in 2014. The number of rural children attending schools in the cities where their parents work increased last year by about 720,000 -- to 13.7 million.