Music therapy hits right note with many Chinese

A government program is seen as helping lonely elderly and children in need, Huang Zhiling reports in Chengdu, Sichuan province

Nearly a dozen elderly men and women sat in a circle shaking maracas and beating bongo drums while three young women musicians hummed a song. After the song had ended, one of the older women asked guitarist Wang Weijia to create a song about a grandmother and her granddaughter.

Having thought for while, Wang came up with a song about how a grandmother bought paper and a painting brush for her granddaughter to make an artwork.