Posted on 01/16/2018 2:18:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
A young boy who works as a courier in a residential area in downtown Qingdao, Shandong province, has attracted the attention of thousands of people who are concerned about his welfare.
The 7-year-old－known only by his nickname Xiaochangjiang, which means "Little Yangtze River"－became an internet sensation after photos of him delivering goods were circulated on WeChat.
Wang Qingwei, director of Qingdao Chess Association, uploaded the photos of the boy and described how they met after the boy knocked on his door last week.
"He handed me a big package with some difficulty and asked me to sign a confirmation receipt," Wang said.
Seeing the boy's hands were red with cold, Wang invited him in for a rest. The boy, who had never seen a chess set before, was fascinated by the game. Wang said he gave him a chess set as a gift and told him to drop by and learn how to play.
Later, Wang and many other kindhearted people who had seen Wang's photos online tried to find out more about the young boy.
According to Wang's WeChat records, the boy had been living with Yan Shifang, a former colleague of his father, in a makeshift building at a local STO Express branch in the city's Shibei district.
According to Yan, the boy's father died and his mother remarried. Yan said he brought the boy from Zaozhuang, Shandong province, to Qingdao where he helped Yan deliver packages.
A notice issued by Qingdao Shibei district government has confirmed Yan's account and that an investigation is under way to locate his mother.
The boy celebrated his birthday for the first time at a welfare home in Qingdao on Sunday. Photo: China Daily/Asia News Network "The local police authority has not yet found the boy's registered household and we are trying to find the boy's mother," the notice said.
Many people have donated money to Xiaochangjiang, who was sent to a local children's welfare house on the weekend.
"The boy is very smart and he is in good health," said Ren Linsong, deputy director of the welfare house, who added that they will take care of him and help him with his schooling.
That’s what real poverty looks like. I wish the ppl here would be more grateful for the immense generosity from the public treasury.
China immediately arrests the boy and his family because it was giving China a bad image. Oh wait, thinking of the Norks. Never mind. (/sarc)
if that's his nickname I hate to see what his full, real name is....
Poverty? In china, yes.
In a western country, that kid would be a millionaire
by the time he’s twenty.
Of course in a western country DHS would pack him into
a group home and he’d be lucky to be able to write his
name at age 20.
Yup. He'd be on welfare, covered in tattoos, speaking Ebonics and calling Trump a racist.
There, made it so even the stupid people understand exactly who is contributing to their survival.
HE already has a better work ethic than most 20-year old U.S. Millennials.
5 year old Chinese kid running loader.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA0WDoTtTT8
The way he is running it, he has been operating it for awhile.
It’s not unusual at all to see kids of this age working a cash register or handling customers in China. Blew me away the first time a little 8 yo girl scanned my item, took my money, and handed me my change and receipt in a store. Her mom, presumably, was somewhere nearby.
That’s what I was thinking.
I think you are blending together different groups.
There’s a Japanese express restaurant near me where the entire family is present.
The kids have a table off to the side an do homework then fart around on tablet games.
If it’s busy the oldest kid, maybe 8 years, runs the cash register.
Nah. A Looks like all the kids are adopting the rough, uncivilized Black culture, Asians, Hispanics, etc.
My neighbor married a woman from China and her 19 year old son came here for a visit and he's speaking like a ghetto thug...and knows everyone in the NBA. He lives full time in (Red) China
My grandfather was a first-generation American born in the 1880’s. He went to work as a mechanic’s helper at age 7 and retired a master engine mechanic at age 65. He never learned to read except mechanical specs and the racing forms, but he was married to the same woman almost 60 years, owned a home, stopped drinking and smoking at age 80, converted from lapsed Catholic to Wesleyan on his deathbed, had 3 surviving married children and many grandchildren. Hard work never killed anybody.
A generation ago, Italian-American artisans apprenticed their children very young — 7 or 8 — they learned building trades, stonecutting, tile setting, carpentry, masonry, and joinery, as well as butchering, fishmongering, cheese or wine making, tailoring, shoemaking, glove and leather goods making or repair — often the men who learned these skills in childhood had the best skills in adulthood because they literally grew their muscles into them.
Interesting...no child labor laws? (Of course, dangerous jobs shouldn’t be for kids, but what’s wrong with work?) American teens needs to have a work ethic, instead of playing basketball or XBox.
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