Migrant workers' kids say goodbye till next year

By He Dan in Beijing and Shi Yingying in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2012-09-01 07:57

Liu Haoran, 6, plays finger games with his father through the window of a train at the Beijing Railway Station on Wednesday. After a short reunion, the boy has to leave his father, a migrant worker in Beijing, for his hometown in Maanshan, Anhui province, for the new semester. Kuang Linhua / China Daily

Nine-year-old Wang Lin sat in the passageway of a pedestrian bridge at the busy Beijing West Railway Station with his father on Tuesday afternoon, waiting for their train to Xining, Northwest China's Qinghai province.