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Chinese migrant worker father watches son go to school from 267km away | South China Morning Post

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An 11-year-old boy wakes up at 5am every Monday, to start his 15km journey to school from China’s Jiangxi province to Guangdong province. Since Xiao Teng’s father works in Shenzhen, a city which is 267km away, Chen can only see his son off through the lens of a security camera.

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