A PhD student who was separated from his family aged four and was adopted by a Dutch couple has finally been reunited with his birth parents after a 12-year search for them. - Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
In 2007, the family returned to China together to look for clues, but the orphanage was gone. However, Gouming never gave up his search. It turned out that Wen and his birth father, Gao Xianjun, had never stopped looking for the child they know as Gao Yang.Gouming photographed with his birth parents before he was lost at a busy railway station. - Photo: Sydney Today
Gao senior walked all the way from Sichuan to 1,700km away Jiangsu province, begging for food and searching desperately for Gao Yang. He died in 2009. By happy coincidence, the day volunteers told Gouming about the success of his 12-year search, was his real birthday, October 12 on the Chinese agricultural calendar.