Racing along the way.
Around five in the afternoon, Wu Jie and his group, after transferring between a high-speed train and a minibus, arrived in Handong City.
Handong City, located amidst vast mountains, is known for its natural resource scarcity and is a famously impoverished county-level city.
There's a common saying, "The poorer one is, the more children one has; the more children one has, the poorer one gets."
Often, the more economically backward a place is, the more likely people are to have more children than permitted.
Because the older generation always feels that having children is a way to ensure care in their old age.
Moreover, the mindset of favoring boys over girls is still deeply ingrained, and it's not uncommon to find cases of abandoned girl infants.
Many young people have gone to big cities to work, and they usually come back only for the Spring Festival each year.
