The sudden death of a 14-year-old laborer in Foshan, South China's Guangdong Province resulted in the child's employer being fined 10,000 yuan ($1,540), a penalty that exemplifies the leniency observers believe is a key factor in child labor's persistence in China.
Wang Pan, born in June 2001 in Central China's Hunan Province Calvin Ridley Youth Jersey , was a worker at a Zhiya underwear factory in the Nanhai district of Foshan. Wang was found unconscious on the morning of April 11 in the apartment he and his mother rented and was declared dead after emergency first aid failed to revive him, Guangzhou Daily reported Sunday.
The report also stated that Wang had to work 11 or 12 hours a day in the Zhiya factory since he signed a contract with the company on March 5.
The company has reached an agreement with Wang's family to pay 150,000 yuan in compensation, the newspaper added.
The punishment currently imposed on employers of child laborers is not a sufficient deterrent, Wang Jiangsong, a professor at the China Institute of Industrial Relations told the Global Times.
Though the Labor Law of China bans the recruitment of juveniles under age 16 Julio Jones Youth Jersey , violators are only required to pay a fine and rectify their crime, while a company's licenses can be revoked under "serious circumstances."
Under a 2002 State Council regulation on the prohibition of child labor, employers can be fined 5,000 yuan per month for each child laborer they hire.
"The phenomenon is mainly due to companies chasing capital benefits, as using child labor can lower labor costs," Wang said.
In an article published in the Chinese Journal of Sociology in 2010 Ito Smith Youth Jersey , Lu Shizhen, a vice president of China Youth and Children Research Association estimated that China's cities were home to between 2 million and 3 million child laborers.
In January 2013, Apple said it terminated its relationship with a component maker in Guangdong after discovering 74 cases of employment of underage workers, Reuters reported. Apple also reported discovering that an employment agency was forging documents to allow children to illegally work at its supplier.
Hu Xingdou, a professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology, said that many child laborers can easily obtain fake ID cards Deadrin Senat Youth Jersey , Investor Journal reported. "Such hidden labor relations could make already vulnerable child laborers more disadvantaged. For fear of losing their jobs, they will not bargain for more payment," Hu was quoted as saying in the report.
China still faces a severe child labor problem, which is exacerbated by the huge population of children left behind in less-developed regions by parents who migrate to urban areas to find work, Chen Lan, founder of a child abuse prevention nongovernmental organization Isaiah Oliver Youth Jersey , told the Global Times.
She also called for more balanced education resources to better educate such children.
There are an estimated 61 million left-behind children in China, according to a survey conducted in 2015 by a Beijing-based NGO, together with Li Yifei, an education professor at Beijing Normal University.
" Students laugh during a soccer training course at Haidian National Primary School in Beijing on Tuesday. A European-style curriculum has been launched at the school. Meng Yongmin Xinhua
It won't be long before Chinese students practice soccer under a European-style curriculum that groomed the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo.
The program will be introduced to about 700 primary schools across China this year, and will provide Chinese students with the same advanced theoretical and field training regimes that their European peers enjoy.
The curriculum was developed in cooperation with Nike and is based on elite European clubs' junior programs. The three-year trial in Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu features a combination of Western and Chinese approaches.
It will be implemented by the Education Ministry as a guideline for soccer training in PE classes at selected schools this spring Tevin Coleman Womens Jersey , according to Wang Dengfeng, director of the ministry's PE, health and art department.
The curriculum also features methods for PE teachers to improve their soccer training expertise, including fitness, technique, nutrition and competition organization Duke Riley Womens Jersey , which it is hoped will make up for the shortage of grassroots coaches.
""The key to promoting soccer among youths is to provide adequate coaching. The introduction of the curriculum offers timely help to our campaign to popularize the game on campus,"" Wang said at the launch of the curriculum at Beijing Haidian National Primary School on Tuesday.
With the Chinese national team reaching the quarterfinals at the 2015 Asian Cup, its best performance at the continental tournament since 2004, interest in the sport has revived among the public and the country's leadership.
Aiming to expand the talent pool at the grassroots level, the ministry, in cooperation with the Chinese Football Association Austin Hooper Womens Jersey , established a plan to develop soccer specialties at 20,000 primary and secondary schools in China by 2017, up from the current 5,000.
To promote participation, soccer skills will be included in the PE test for senior high school entrance exams from 2016 in Beijing, under a regulation published by the Beijing Commission of Education last year.
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