China: Man Kidnapped 33 Ago Reunited With Family After Drawing Map From Memory
A man who was kidnapped as a child in China more than 30 years ago has been reunited with his family after drawing a map of his village from memory.
A man who was kidnapped as a child in China more than 30 years ago has been reunited with his family after drawing a map of his village from memory.
Li Jingwei, from the Chinese province of Yunnan, was just four years old when he was lured away from his home and sold into a child trafficking ring in 1988, BBC reported.
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On 24 December, he posted a photo of a hand-drawn map on Douyin 每 China＊s version of TikTok 每 and asked for clues about where it could be.
Police managed to narrow the area down to a small village near the mountainous city of Zhaotong in Yunnan province, according to the South China Morning Post.
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After providing a blood sample that matched the DNA of a woman in the village, Li was finally reunited with his mother on New Year＊s Day. Sadly his father is no longer alive, the report said.
Emotions ran high as the pair met for the first time in over three decades.
Li removed his mother's face mask to examine her face before recognising her as his mum, breaking down in tears.
"Thirty-three years of waiting, countless nights of yearning, and finally a map hand-drawn from memory, this is the moment of perfect release after 13 days," Li wrote on his Douyin profile.
"Thank you, everyone who has helped me reunite with my family," he added.
As of November, more than 8,300 children who went missing in China over previous decades have been found under an initiative called Tuan Yuan, state news agency Xinhua reported.
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