After this year"s ninth suicide at Foxconn on May 14, Dr. Lu Huilin, an associate sociology professor at Peking University, and another eight sociology scholars, started to draft a letter to sound the alarm about the plight of China"s new gen-eration of migrant workers. The letter was issued on May 18 and has been published by different newspapers. Lu has also handed over a request to Foxconn to conduct field surveys at the company during his summer break in July.