Left picture: Liang Zihan, 3, plays on a mattress in front of the house in Runxi village, Nanchang city, Jiangxi Province.

Right picture: The present from Liang Zihan’s parents. (Xinhua/Zhou Mi)

Parents work in places far from home in order to give their children a better life. Those left-behind children become lonely because of lacking love from parents. Most of the children want to stay with their parents rather than a gift from them.

Liang Zihan’s parents left home to work in Shenzhen 12 years ago. His mother went back to work a few months after he was born, and left him with his grandmother.