Little seems to have changed in the People’s Republic since cases of slave labour came to light in June 2007 when it was revealed that brick kilns in Shanxi and Henan were employing child slaves...According to official media more than 55,000 police agents were mobilised to inspect thousands of factories. Almost 600 “slaves” were freed, including minors and mentally disabled people. Hundreds of people were arrested, tried and sentenced to set an example. But nothing really changed...Today parents complain that the police is indifferent to their plight, unwilling to look for missing children, turning down requests for inspection in specific places, like in Miao Lisong’s case who discovered an illegal factory in Yongji.