A young man who found his mother after 30 years by making a map of the village with the help of a memory
''A Chinese man who was abducted 30 years ago has surprisingly accessed his mother by drawing a map of his childhood village with the help of his memory.''
''Lee Jungwei was just four years old when he was abducted from his home and sold to a gang of child smugglers.''
However, on December 24 last month, he shared a hand-drawn map on a video-sharing app called Doin, which police identified as resembling a small Chinese village, and found a woman there. The son was abducted at an early age.
The mother and son were reunited in a Greek province on Saturday after taking a DNA test.
In the video of this historic meeting between the two, it can be seen that Li Jingwei first carefully removes the mask from his mother's face and looks at her face carefully, after which he starts crying and hugs her. ۔
Lee wrote the following message on his Duane's profile before the meeting: Thanks to everyone who helped me reunite with my family. "
Li was abducted in the southwestern Chinese city of Zhaotang in Yunnan Province and sold in 1989 to a family 1,800 kilometers away.
Lee, who lives in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, did not receive any help from his adoptive parents or the DNA database. So they decided to go for the internet.
He said in the video,''I am a kid looking for a real home.'' I was four years old when I was abducted in 1989 by a man from our neighborhood and taken to Hanan.
''This video has been shared thousands of times.'
"This is a map of the area around my house, which I made with the help of my memory," he said in the video, waving a rough map of his village. He also pointed out the forest and a small pond.
Child abductions are not uncommon in China because the birth of a son is so important in this society.
Most children are abducted at an early age and sold to other families. According to statistics published in 2015, 20,000 children are abducted in the country every year.
The year 2021 saw many such instances in which young boys were reunited with their parents after a long separation.
Last July, Guangtang was reunited with his son, who was abducted 24 years later in Shandong Province.