They used to be friends on social networks, compared their DNA but didn’t recognize each other, by the time they figured it out, it was too late
It all started in the summer of 1991, when 4-year-old Xu Jianfeng, living in Guangdong province, China was kidnapped and sold during an outing with his father. After a long time on the run, Xu got lost in a small coastal fishing village in Huizhou, Guangdong, and was adopted by an honest family.
“My adoptive mother said I would find my biological mother when I grew up,” he recalls.
In 2010, Xu Jianfeng began his journey to find his biological parents. He left a blood sample for the local government’s lost relatives search program in the hope of being able to reunite his family.
The man did not know that, in his hometown, his mother, Yang Suhui, was also looking for her child alone. She carried a placard with Xu’s picture and information around China to inquire about her son. She also left a blood sample at the program to find lost relatives, but the test results at that time showed that the two were not related by blood. Even after divorcing her husband and learning that she had cancer, Ms. Yang did not give up hope.
In January 2017, she died of a terrible disease. Before the moment of death, this mother was still tormented because she could not find Xu for 26 years. Her story and boundless love for her children made the Chinese public feel sympathy. The local authorities then took a blood sample from Ms. Yang and compared it again with other blood samples in the database and surprisingly, this time, the results showed that Xu was Ms. Yang’s son.
“Fate is like teasing me and my children. We ran towards each other, but then we were apart. I was right in front of you, and yet… I’m sorry. I detested the immaturity of DNA testing technology back then. Six years ago, my mother and I were said to be not related by blood.”
More unfortunately, both Ms. Yang and Xu were once in a WeChat chat group, where people were searching for lost loved ones. When she heard about Mrs. Yang’s story, Xu took the initiative to make friends and contact her to encourage and support her tireless journey of finding her child. At the time of Ms. Yang’s death, he also sent condolences to her daughter, also his sister, on WeChat. At one point, the man wondered if Ms. Yang was his mother, but after hearing her confirm that his lost son had a birthmark on his butt, Mr. Xu extinguished all hope.
So, mistakes in the previous DNA test made it impossible for Yang’s mother and daughter to reunite soon. The birthmark on Xu’s buttocks also seems to have faded as he grows older, so the sign for Ms. Yang to identify the child is no longer there.
Recently, on March 13, Xu Jianfeng, a son away from home for 26 years, returned to his hometown to meet his relatives and visit his mother’s grave.
“Mom, I can’t erase you from my heart anyway,” he shared on Weibo.
In fact, child abduction and trafficking are still a serious problem in China. In 2009, the country built a DNA database to combat human trafficking, thereby helping biological parents find their children.
According to: SCMP, Social Media Asia
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