Stop game companies exploiting vulnerability of rural left-behind kids

SEVERAL RECENT SURVEYS show children's addiction to smartphones and mobile games is becoming an increasingly serious problem, especially among rural kids whose parents work far away from home. Gmw.cn comments:

As the surveys show, children in rural areas who are left at home while their parents work in cities far away are left behind not only physically but also psychologically by their parents. These youngsters treat their smartphones as their most intimate companions.

Besides the parents who are absent when the children need them most, the poor education resources cannot provide them with a proper education and the hollowing out of rural communities mean children in the countryside are more lonely than in past.