The children of China are so beautiful. Maybe it’s because there does not seem to be that many of them. Most couples have one child; a few have two. You can see the pride in their parents’ eyes.

Often you will see small children with grandparents. In many cases, it is the grandparents who care for them while the parents are in the city working.

We watched one afternoon as several busloads of young children, probably 6-year-olds, alighted from their Hong Kong bus to cross over the border to Shenzhen on the Chinese mainland. These children were born in Hong Kong so they must attend school in Hong Kong, even if they and their parents now live in Shenzhen. Just routine. There must be logic in that somewhere . . .