A Family reunites after 30 years, thanks to Facial recognition
A toddler, who went missing since 3 decades ago, was reunited with his original parents after a span of 30 years. On Monday, 34-year-old Mao was reunited with his biological parents at a news conference held by the Xi'an police.
Emerging from a side door of the conference hall, during a police news conference filmed by Chinese State Broadcaster channel, Mao called out to his mother and ran toward her. The family of three broke down in tears in a long embrace, the livestream of the news conference broadcast live by a state broadcaster channel showed.
Thanks to facial recognition technology, the toddler was finally united with his biological family,after a long span of three decades
"I don't want him to leave me anymore. I won't let him leave me anymore," his mother, Li Jingzhi, said as she held tightly to her son's hand.
Mao, who now runs a home decoration business in Sichuan, said he would move to Xi'an to live with his biological parents, according to a broadcast channel
Following Mao's disappearance, Li quit her job and devoted herself to the quest of searching for her son. She sent out more than 100,000 flyers and went on numerous national television programs. She also became a volunteer; collecting information about other missing children and helping 29 of them reunite with their families.
According to the broadcast channel, Mao had seen Li talking about her missing son on television before, and was moved by her persistence -- but little did he realize he was the boy she had spent decades looking for.
There is no official tally on how many children are kidnapped in China each year. On the website "Baby Come Home," a widely-used platform for Chinese parents to post missing child notices, more than 51,000 registered families are searching for their children.
According to Xinhua, police have found and reunited more than 6,300 abducted children with their families since the Ministry of Public Security set up a nationwide DNA database in 2009 to match parents with missing children.
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