China Scene: West

Schoolgirl carrying family on back

A 13-year-old girl from Shaanxi province has had to grow up prematurely after her mother passed away and her father was paralyzed.

Yu Shangqin, a middle school student from a poor farmer's family in Yujiashan village in Ankang, Shaanxi province, has to take care of her father and younger sister after her mother died a year ago and since her dad was confined to bed with a rare disease.