As the income gap increases between China’s cities and its countryside, a few companies and inpiduals are trying to change the tide. BON’s Tony Zhou tells us about one experiment in a rural part of Shaanxi province that seems to be paying off.

Over the past few decades, more than 200 million people in rural China have migrated to the cities in search of work.

And as we've reported here on BON, this mass migration has resulted in thousands of children being left behind in rural villages. They are known as China’s "left-behind children". Now one Chinese province has set up a system to house those children.

Every year, thousands of children go missing from across China. Many of them are kidnapped and sold to rural families wanting a child. It’s a problem that leaves parents devastated … and desperately searching for answers. Sylvia Gunawan reports.

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It's a question that plagues teachers and students alike, in classrooms all over the world. How do I make classic literature interesting? Perhaps no other nation has such a large amount of classical writing as China, and perhaps no other nation is trying to find the answer as publicly.

In China, there's no better time than right now to get into classical literature. There are perhaps thousands of texts to choose from, including the four canonical novels, the ancient teachings of Confucius, and endless collections of poems.

But the real question is: how do you understand it?

For many people, and especially foreigners and children, the texts themselves are too difficult. And so the majority of newcomers turn to something else: adaptations.

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