Slave children traded ‘like cabbages’ in China
Richard Spencer; 1/5/08
Thousands of children are being sold “like cabbages” to China’s booming factories as virtual slave labour. Young people — some less than 10 — are said to have been discovered being bought and sold at a street market in Szechuan, one of rural China’s most overpopulated provinces. According to investigative reporters, the children stood in line as they were assessed like cattle, before being driven on trucks to factories in the Pearl River Delta, China’s manufacturing heartland.