From the Chinese press

Kids in need of social protection

The fate of 14-year-old Yang Liujin changed after the media highlighted his plight. On learning from media reports that the boy had been living alone in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region for six years, people from across the social divide donated about 5 million yuan ($800,500) to help Yang lead a normal life. Soon a relative of Yang and local officials announced that they would take care of him, prompting many to suspect that their decisions were influenced by the fact that he had received a huge amount through donations, says an article on gmw.cn. Excerpts:

No one can say for sure whether Yang will encounter more problems in the future given that he has received about 5 million yuan. Perhaps the lack of a foolproof social system for the protection of orphaned and abandoned children is to blame for that. Had such a system been in place, children like Yang would not have had to face an uncertain future.