At least 548 child workers rescued in a crackdown from Yunnan brick kilns at Liuwu Village China’s Shanxi province. Several abducted men and children of 8 years of age had been sold for $65 a head in the klins. The police had raided on thousands of kilns in two provinces and rescued hundreds of bonded labor. The case had been transformed as so scandalized in China that the President Hu Jintao had reportedly himself ordered an immediate investigation in the matter. Child labor and harsh working conditions is a truth in China where the life is driven by its own recreation of wealth and all around development. Recently, the US department of state has ranked China as Tier II country in human exploitation and child labor report. China, itself, is desperate to change its reputation as the sweatshop of the world. The Chinese leaders are working hard to just clean up its image particularly for the sake of better image build up in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics. However, Belgium-based PlayFair had accused China for employing children of 12 years of age to produce Olympic-related souvenirs. The Chinese authorities denied the report and said that the students of six middle schools and two primary schools had been called during school holidays to pack notebooks. Those were not Olympic-licensed products. Later, more than 35,000 security personnel from Henan province and 14,000 from Shanxi province carried out raids on about 10,000 kilns and arrested at least 140 suspects. Some parents of abducted children conducted their own rescue mission and saved more than 100 boys during 15 different occasions. Some fathers went undercover to learn more about the kilns and couldn’t believe what they saw. One of the father said: They start work at five in the morning and sometimes don’t finish until past midnight. They get no pay and are fed only bread and water. If they try to run away, they would break their legs. Some were buried alive. We saw police pull out two bodies. One was an 18-year-old. The other was 19. Now, the slavery at brick factories has revealed that the slavery in China is a truth. The parents of some abducted children accused local authorities for not takinhg necessary steps to save the abuses. They said that human traffickers had abducted at least 1,000 children from Henan province and sent to nearby Shanxi province