Looking after the kids 'left behind'

Haier Group, China's consumer electronics giant, is to work with the United Nations Children's Fund on a project to help the growing number of children in China whose parents are forced to work outside their home towns.

The program, being funded with 10 million yuan ($1.6 million) from Haier, will introduce what's called social emotional learning into 150 rural primary schools in three county-level cities in rural China: Zhong county in Chongqing municipality, Nayong county in Guizhou province and Sanjiang Dong autonomous county in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF's representative in China, said that social emotional learning is an innovative teaching method that looks beyond learning and into life skills, including how individuals deal with themselves, others and relationships, and how to improve the whole school experience.