GUIYANG Homme Nike Air VaporMax Plus Sunset Noir Orange Pas Cher , June 11 (Xinhua) -- The deaths of four children from one family have once again exposed the plight of a vast number of poor children without parental care in China.

Four siblings aged between 5 and 13 were hospitalized and later died after swallowing pesticide in the southwestern province of Guizhou on Tuesday, a police investigation confirmed.

Local authorities were unable to get in touch with the children's parents and it remains unclear whether they intended to kill themselves.

"The children did not lack food and clothes, but lacked the love and care of parents," said Xiao Wenying, a distant relative of the family. "The parents failed to fulfill their parental responsibilities."

The deaths have triggered widespread sympathy and anger.

Their mother, Ren Xifen Femme Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit Moc Vert Pas Cher , left home in March 2014 after a long and bitter dispute with her husband Zhang Fangqi who left the village in March this year, according to Gao Huacheng, the village Communist Party chief.

Caring for themselves, the siblings were living among 500 kg of stored corn and 25 kg of preserved meat in a three-story home.

Zhang's eldest son received money on a bank card his father gave him, police found. The local government has provided the family with minimum living allowance since 2012, and more than 3 Homme Nike Air VaporMax Moc Midnight Fog Pas Cher ,500 yuan (about 560 U.S. dollars) was left on the bank card.

Pan Ling, another relative, said the family were socially withdrawn and often skipped class. The siblings' grandparents had all passed away.

The government of Bijie City's Qixingguan District, which administers the village, has started a survey of "left-behind" children and asked education officials, school principals and village heads to keep a close eye on the children to prevent similar tragedies.

China has more than 60 million children in rural areas who are left with relatives Off White x Nike Air Vapormax Noir Pas Cher , usually grandparents. According to a 2013 report released by the All-China Women's Federation, nearly 3.4 percent of these children live alone.

The "left-behind" children fall easy victim to such tragedies, victims of trafficking and suicide.

In 2012, five street children also in Bijie died from carbon monoxide poisoning when burning charcoal for warmth in a roadside dumpster.

The issue of "left-behind" children in central and western China, like Guizhou, should get more attention from people in all walks of life Off White x Nike Vapormax Noir Blanche Pas Cher , said Liu Chengbin, a professor of sociology at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Some "left-behind" children get irritated easily, lack awareness of self protection and behavior control and cannot tell right from wrong, said Liu.

"Parents' love and care are very important to them and cannot be replaced," he said.

Liu said the authorities should push forward with reform to the household registration system to help children stay with their parents in cities.

China's one-child policy allows rural families and ethnic minorities to have more children than the urban norm.

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The one-day seminar, organized by Massey University and the Dutch embassy, aims to raise awareness among the world's diplomats of the major health issues facing the Pacific island nations in Wellington on Nov. 11.

The organizers could have picked the region's biggest problem - climate change - but they decided to focus on the priority problems that could be solved "in a matter of years rather that decades," director of Massey's Centre for Public Health Research Professor Jeroen Douwes told Xinhua.

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"The Pacific seems to have been forgotten to some degree, so getting it on the agenda, getting people to realize that there's a large group of islands where there are some major issues that need some support."

On the three issues to be addressed at the seminar - cancer rates, pesticide use, and training and education - Pacific island nations lacked the information and the ability to offset their worst effects.

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"We do know from case studies - for instance in lagoons in Tonga - that there are elevated levels of pesticides that have been measured," said Douwes.

"We also know the ecology around those lagoons has been deteriorating over time and one of the potential causes is pesticide exposure - there are other exposures as well including heavy metals," he said.

"What we don't know is how much exposure people have, children around those areas and that's something we need to find out."

Some of the pesticides used in the Pacific were banned in Western countries.

"We also know that people who are using the pesticides are often not able to read the safety labels -- they may not necessarily use it according to the manufacturer's instructions which poses all sorts of risks," said Douwes.

The Pacific was also lacking information about cancer mortality and incidents because many nations had no systematic screening programs, such as those for cervical and breast cancer in developed nations Homme Nike Air VaporMax Laceless Noir Grise Pas Cher , and they lacked cancer registries to track trends in the disease.

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