“Chinese boy walks 4km to school in freezing conditions, arrives with icicles in hair”

Wang is a “left-behind child”, a term used in China to describe children from poor families whose parents work in cities away from home. He lives with his older sister and grandmother.

Wang said they burned firewood at home, but there was no heating equipment at school. “It is cold going to school, but it’s not hard,” he was quoted as saying.