For every child that makes it to the international stage, it's impossible to calculate how many children fell along the way. If they suffer injuries whilst training. just as Yang Yun, they are forced through them. If their injuries become too severe, either due to over-training or insufficient medical care, they are completely cast aside. They are returned empty-handed to their parents, receiving no compensation for their childhood stolen or the physical pain they have endured. Even more concerning, they often receive little to no medical care for the injuries and disabilities they sustained at the hands of their own government. Indeed, stories have also emerged of children being left homeless on the streets of Beijing, too crippled to work or even care for themselves, physical and emotionally broken.

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