India, May 19 -- A Chinese primary school has finally responded to the fierce backlash triggered by a controversial questionnaire. While intended to encourage students to thank their parents for their hard work, the survey sparked outrage over "invasive, insensitive questions" about parental occupations.

The school in China's central Hubei province, Tianmen, handed out a survey titled "Observation List of Parents' Occupation" and one of the questions on it asked students if their parents' jobs were "noisy or smelly", reported Zonglan news, a state-backed media outlet from Hebei province.

The survey reportedly had five categories: work time, work challenges, work environment, work achievement, and work content.

The detailed questions un...