China boy skips rope as many times as he receives likes to lose weight gets 1.8 million thumbs up

A chubby seven-year-old boy in China who agreed to skip rope exactly in line with the number of thumbs-up a video of him doing so got has seen his video clip liked by more than 1.8 million internet users.The clip released by the father, surnamed He, on February 9 was flooded with likes, amused that the boy agreed to his father’s novel weight-loss idea, the Qilu Evening News reported.The boy, nicknamed Tangdou, which means sugar bean, is being raised by his grandparents in his hometown in eastern Jiangsu province while his parents run a small restaurant in Linyi, Shandong province, also in eastern China.Tangdou is 1.32m tall and weighs 45kg.Tangdou skipping in a still image from one of the videos his father posted online. Photo: JimuAccording to a child body development standard made by the country’s National Health Commission, a seven-year-old boy should be around 120-126 cm tall and weigh 19-26 kg.