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People in the organization, who have established close contacts with companies, earn 200 to 300 yuan ($29-$43) for each worker. While leaders of the organization, who are responsible for encouraging the youngsters to leave their hometowns, can earn about 100,000 yuan each within three months, the report said.

The children earn about 2.5 yuan to 3.8 yuan an hour and are forced to work long hours, it said.

He Zhujian, chief of the labor enforcement team in Dongguan, said: "Most of the employers are medium-to-small companies. Most small firms are not registered with the labor departments and try to cut operational costs."

Hou Yuangao, a professor with the Central University for Nationalities, said it is poverty that drives families to send their children to work.

"In Liangshan, where farming alone cannot support a family, children as young as 8 or 9 are sent out to work. Many parents are happy their children are earning several hundred yuan a month," he said.

One mother burst into tears when she learned her son had been sent to work thousands of kilometers away, but when she heard he was provided with a rice meal every two or three days, her tears dried up, the newspaper reported.

(China Daily April 30, 2008)

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