Overview

Child labor is the gainful employment of children below an age determined by law or custom. Young children and teenagers are bought and are forced to work in dangerous and unhealthy conditions for up to 14 hours a day. Some of their work ranges from manufacturing, construction, agriculture, making fireworks and domestics. These children are forced to work at young ages due to poverty. These kids are sometimes confined, beaten, and even forced into slavery which violates human rights. In an official report it was said that children make up 20% of China's work force.  Its appears that this issue is decreasing but could inflate at any time, "The International Labor Organization projected that there would be 9.25 million economically active children between the ages of 10-14 in the year 2000 and that there were 11,575,000 economically active children between the ages of 10-14, representing 11.55% of this age group in 1995."This is happening anywhere that factories exists in China, it is not just one place. The reason the people that own these factories do this is because it costs less for them because they don't have to pay children as much. The U.S. receives a large quantity of goods from China, whether its toy, shoes, or electronics, China is forced to have child labor so that it is cheaper to sell to countries like The U.S. who need China to provide goods like that.

Below is a video of children working in a glass factory in Shangxi Province, China: