BEIJING – The story of a university student from Chongqing who flew 1,600km to pick up her mother and take her back home for the upcoming Chinese New Year has gone viral in China, People’s Daily reported. According to a video posted by Li Qiushuang, her parents went to work in Fujian province over 20 years ago. Every year before the Spring Festival, they would return to Chongqing together. However in 2024, due to her grandmother’s illness, Ms Li’s father returned to their hometown early, leaving her mother alone in Jinjiang, Fujian, where she works at a shoe factory. Over a video call, Ms Li’s mother told her daughter that she wouldn’t be coming home for the New Year holiday…
Published Date: 2024-01-31
Source: The Straits Times
Categories: Home, Family, Parenting, Society, Death, In Memoriam, Recreation, Humor, Business
