Chinanews, Beijing, May 25 – While the well-faring old parents in cities are enjoying the celebration with their children on the Mothers’ Day, their numerous counterparts in the countryside of China are still striving to make a living due to the lack of filial support from their children. This is the conclusion drawn through a survey by Zhai Yu, an NPC deputy in Heilongjiang.There is a real story happening in Zhai Yu’s hometown, Mashan Village of Jixi City, Heilongjiang province. An old couple both in their 80s, the husband with lame legs and the wife bed ridden, were not found dead by their neighbors until several days after they had died in their own house. This old couple had been abandoned by their children, who lived in the same village of their poor parents.Zhai was quiet shocked by this tragic story and felt obligated to make a survey about the endowment condition of the aged in the villages of China.Covering 10,401 people above 60 years’ old from 72 villages in 46 counties of 31provinces, the survey shows that the average annual income of these elderly people is 650 yuan; 45.3% of the total interviewed live separately from their children, and 85% confess that they have to do farm work on their own. More shockingly, 5% of interviewees are found to have difficulties getting enough food, 93% seldom have new clothes and 69% even do not have alternatives to wear. In addition, 67% of the respondents say they can not afford the medical expense when afflicted by slight ailments, and 86% are not able to pay for the hospitalization cost when having severe diseases.“The problem of endowment in the rural areas are of big concern to not only the 0.9 billion peasants themselves but also to society at large. Filial piety is a lowest requirement for being called a man and an indispensable morality for being a nation,” says Zhai,” The aged in the countryside, where social insurance is often inadequate, should, in any case, be taken good care of in this society.”