A Search of 37 Years Reunites Chinese Parents With Long-Lost Son

A Chinese couple got reunited with their son missing for 37 years, reported The South China Morning Post.

When the child was only one-year-old in 1986, he was given away by his paternal grandmother, who felt the couple was too poor to raise another child. The grandmother sent the child to a family headed by a man surnamed Zhao.

At that time the couple already had two sons.

According to SCMP, after the grandmother died, Li and his wife spent three decades in search of their lost son.

In February 2024, the couple’s blood samples were found to match that of a man with the surname Pang, living in Zaozhuang, Shandong province, according to the Ministry of Public Security’s database.

China’s police authority established a large DNA database in 2009 by collecting blood samples from couples whose children went missing and adoptees who wanted to find their biological parents.

On August 3, with the help of police officers, Pang met his parents in Weinan, where he was born 37 years ago.

The video of their reunion uploaded on social media led to emotional reactions.