Zhengzhou Woman Commits Suicide by Burning Charcoal with Elderly Parent and Children, Driven by Despair Over Her Life

A woman in Zhengzhou, who was supporting three children and a sick elderly parent, earned less than 200 yuan in 8 days of food delivery work. Facing despair that hard work could not feed her family and the survival predicament of the new era, she chose to burn charcoal. The incident involves three children aged 2, 4, and 9, and has been called by outsiders a replay of the Yang Gailan incident in Gansu ten years ago.