On the morning of January 15, leaders of Yinzhou district labor union came to our company to visit Li Yuan, a worker of family difficulties, with gifts and cash.

Li Yuan is a worker of metal workshop, paper products No. 4 plant of our company. Both her parents are peasants, with an income of less than 2000 yuan a year. Her father has severe tuberculosis. He is getting worse and worse because of no money. Her mother has chronic bronchitis. However, she had to undertake the backbreaking daily routines at home, and also has to work in the field during the busy harvest season. On May 12, 2008, in Sichuan large earthquake, her family’s only several old rooms were severely damaged. Due to fund shortage, they haven’t been fixed up till now. She not only has to spend her salary supporting her parents and raising a child, but basic living expenses like paying rent. She has very heavy family burden.