The fact is, these minor workers were forced to factories and particularly "by their parents to gangs who in turn sold them off to employment agencies or directly to factories hundreds of miles from their homes". As cruel as it sounds, what about going to the rural areas and ask the families who are struggling under the poverty line while threatened by the ever so booming economy of China in losing their land or ways of living.
The trickle down effect seems to be doing rather bad than good for them as an effect of how the system works. Moreover, according to Epoch Times, the rural poverty has worsen by the "dysfunctional public services", especially on medi-care and education. "The huge burden of medical expenses, in particular, changes rural poverty for the worse."
As for the benefits that are being adjusted and provided to the poor, the Chinese government stated in its 2008 Report on China Central and Rural Budget that, "In the central and western regions the standard for funding assistance from the central budget will be raised from 20 yuan to 40 yuan per person per year."
However, migrant workers are exempted from the benefits due to a government policy called Hukuo, introduced in the 50's, purposefully restricting and controlling the moving of rural people to urban areas.
In the dawn of the biggest game, China is slowly understanding and revealing its faults and ability in changing. The knowledge of protest, busting child labour, increasing the subsidies of the farmers and food safety have shown that the red dragon has a potential of changing for the better, though it might just be "a bloom of the night-blooming cereus (曇花一現)" or in English --- a flash in the pan.
