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Imagine paying good money to send your kids somewhere
with no Wi-Fi, no electricity,
and a whole lot of manual labor on purpose.
That's not a punishment.
That's the pitch.
It's called eat bitterness camp
and it swept across China this summer,
and now it's back for National Day under a new name
and parents can't sign up fast enough.
But here's what we want to know.
Are these camps actually building character,
or just selling a feeling?
And what aren't they telling the families who buy in?
First up
This summer, a strange new trend took off across China,
parents paying to send their kids into the mountains
to go through hardships.
It's not a metaphor.