The city of Xi’an, Shaanxi province, organized an orienteering event at Technology University, on Jan 11, and got dozens of families involved in the competition, whose real purpose was to increase people’s awareness of children who are left-behind when their parents go away to work or the elderly when their children move away, xinhuanet.com has reported.

The city wanted to make people aware of a new film on that subject, The Orange Tree and the Boy, which came out on Jan 16, and tells the story of a boy, Fu Guo who lives with his grandfather in a village in southern Shaanxi after his parents go away to the city of Shenzhen, in faraway Guangdong province, as migrant labors. The boy misses his parents, so his grandpa plants an orange tree for him and says that his parents will return when the tree blossoms. As the boy looks forward to seeing his parents again, he learns how to do housework and take care of his grandpa and grows from a naughty boy into a considerate child. But, by the time the orange tree blossomed, his parents still have not returned. The film also givs a good look at the province’s natural and scenery and rare animals, such as the Crested Ibis.

Source: China Daily