Legal analysis: Left-behind children refer to school-age children and adolescents who are left behind by farmers who have been working outside for more than three months and are cared for by their parents or other relatives to receive compulsory education.

Legal basis: Opinions of the State Council on Strengthening the Care and Protection of Left-behind Children in Rural Areas Article 1 Left-behind children refer to minors under the age of 16 whose parents go out to work or one of them has no guardian.