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At about 10pm, our tourists were recommended to do shoppings at a grand shoping mall. When leaving the back exit, we ran across some kids who were polishing the shoes. The oldest among them were just over 10, while the youngest was not older than 3.  They used a begging tone to call “uncle, auntie” — 2 yuan once to polish your leather shoes. Many tourists couldn’t heartily have them polish thoroughly, but just  let them make some simple polishings. Some customers paid 10 Yuan, some 5 Yuan, and no one gave 2 Yuan. Glancing at those children, all tourists felt a sigh! Now those photos were shared with everybody here, they were taken at the night. Though a bit blur, they were absolutely true!

Note: These photos were leaked onto the Chinese bulletins in April, 2009. A lot of Chinese netizens believed these children probably were trafficked ones and there must have some masterminders behind. Yet it seemed there was almost no mainstream media reported on the story. Later,  there were also no updated individual journarist’s info about the kids, hope they are ok now! Read the rest of this entry »

Picture: Xiaoxia’s left foot instep is much swollen, she has to wear a self-made flip

At Honglai Town of Nan’an [Fujian Province], the reporter met up with Xiao Xia [pseudonymous]. She sported a head of short hair and her face was delicate. But her left leg was apparently different from that of an average person, with the swollen left foot instep which was about 6cm thick. Moreover, her left leg swell completely between the ankle to the thigh. The upper and lower part of the problematic leg were almost the same round, but more thicker than an adult’s leg.

“Do you feel painful?” asked the reporter who touched Xiaoxia’s leg of no elasticity. “Nope”, replied she, shaking the head. According to the mother Ms. Huang, Xiaoxia’s two legs were of different sizes at her birth and several days later the left one was doulbe sized than the right counterpart. Ms Huang said the family members very were all healthy and did not have any hereditary disease. She believed Xiaoxia’s “illness” could probably be due to a medication during her gestation. ” When eight months pregnant, I once had the intravenous infusion in a small clinic, which possibly caused the syndrome[of then unborn XiaoXia).

Right after Xiaoxia was born, the life of Ms. Huang and husband Mr. Dai was totally changed. They often carried the kid to seek the treatment for her in the general hospitals of various cities. Ms. Huang said, these years, they had taken their daughter to see doctors in Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Xiaomen and Shanghai. Last year, a hospital in Xiamen diagnosed Xiaoxia with the lynmphedema and advised to do surgeries. Yesterday, during a call, this Xiamen hospital's  Dr. Qi said, he was always concerned with Xiaoxia's condition, "she really was diagnosed with the (lower limbs) lynmphedema [wikipedia, medscape.com], but because her illness was congenital, the cause of disease remained unclear, there are risks to undergo the surgeries”.

According to Mr. Dai, if to cure her daughter’s illness, several operations are to be needed. But because of the concerns for risks that may arise from the surgeries, so far he dares not to send Xiaoxia to the operation table. Furthermore, he is rely on repairing the motorcycles to make money and his wife works outside all the year around, the surgery expenses are a problem.

This year Xiaoxia is 5 years old, still attending the kindergarten. “Sometime she told to us, she wanted to be same with other schoolmates, to dance freely.” Ms. Huang said. Once her legs were exposed under the sunlight, Xiaoxia would get a fevor. “Let alone dancing, she even dares not go out see the sun ah.”

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From Sohu Blog–金泉少侠, written in Chinese on September 29, 2009.

Several days ago, I received a call from a official of Suzhou. He invited me as a guest to pay a visit at his house. He said the Lunar Mid-August Festival or Mooncake Festival] was coming and asked me to go to Suzhou to watch the moon. I admitted my understanding was rather poor, so initially I didn’t understand him. Later he said he’d like to reciprocate me for the things I helped him on his restaurant. Facing the kind invitation, I had no choice but go to Suzhou to pay him a visit. About the detail who he is, I don’t spill the beans here. It was a very rare opportunity when I got to know this official. Some time ago, when he was navigating the internet, he ran across the online news that I reported. Then I made several searches on my internet moniker 金泉少侠 (literally golden spring young hero) and found a lot of reports I authored. He found my blog, and through communicating using the QQ, I realized he was a local official [in Suzhou]. Later he said he had some difficulties in opening a restaurant and asked me if I could mastermind a plan for him. And I embarked an on-site inspection and became acquainted with his circumstances, I offered him a proposal. Later I authored a piece of news for him and Anhui Satellite TV reported it. In the end, the things concerned with his restaurant was solved what what came naturally.

It had since several months passed. Unexpectedly, this official still remembered me, what a real treat! During the days I was visiting his house, he solely took me to tour the various scenic spots so that I visited every local place there was to do. Every meal I was well-fed and served nice drinkings, enjoying what I had never experienced before. On the time when he saw off me for Guangzhou, the official gave a hongbao (red package stuffed with money), two boxes of mooncakes, and some local specialties as well. After I returned to home, I opened the hongbao and found 8k cash. Those specialties were just eaten up these two days, the remaining two boxes of mooncakes were kept untouched. As the Lunar Mid-August Festival is yet to arrive, so I didn’t want to eat them. Yesterday I became a bit gluttonous, thus I opened one box and was to pick one to eat. Unanticipatedly, after removing the cover, I was shocked to find that every mooncake had a quite wide crack. Looking upon, I was stunned! When I broke off one mooncake, suddenly came out a little square shape folded paper wrapped inside a transparent plastic membrane. Carefully checked, they were big 100-Yuan nominal banknotes. When the white paper was slowly unfolded, my goddess, there were ten 100-Yuan banknotes inside together. After the “One-Thousand-Yuan” folded paper was pulled out, there was a big hole, like those left there following the potatoes were digged up, existing in the interior of the mooncake

One box had four mooncakes, so two boxes eight, when summed up, there were 8k altogether. I had seen using sky-high priced cigrattes, gold, hongbao, expensive wines and luxury watches, and hidden rules as the gifts, but never noted there was the cash stuffed inside the mooncake as the gift. Mooncake ah! This was actually a food ah! Food security ah! Could mooncakes stuffed with the cash produced in the factory? Apparently, there was someone who had maneuvered behind the scene, that is, the “One-Thousand-Yuan” folded paper was stuffed into the mooncakes after they were purchased and then holed.

Looking at these mooncakes, the more I thought, the more I felt puzzled, the official couldn’t have done this kind of things himself. In order to determine what I assumed, I called the official who gave the mooncakes. He told me the mooncakes were the gifts someone who asked him to do things. He noticed the mooncakes was out of the grade he desired, an also his family was never lack of mooncakes every year, so he didn’t pay the heed and made them a present of me. Surprisingly, the person who asked the official to do things did something fancy out of the ordinary, now your mooncakes are at my hand, don’t know if that official has done things for you?

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Just posted an entry on Hunan province of China, here is one more. A tourist visiting Furong  Town in western Hunan snapped two photos of a man in red tee carrying a gigantic bighead carp stranded on his bamboo packbasket using the nylon strings. It’s not clear how the man caught the fish or wether he just bought a bountiful catch. Read the rest of this entry »