A Chinese man has been reunited with his father for the very first time after being abducted 24 years ago.
Sun Bin was just four years old when he was taken from his father’s vegetable stall in the country’s Sichuan province, and sold to a childless couple for the equivalent of £250.
Now 28, Sun Bin revealed that when he was old enough to conduct the research himself, he began searching for his biological parents.
After beginning the search in 2010, Sin Bin supplied the government with a DNA sample and was given the details of a match.
The 28-year-old discovered that his distraught father and mother, Ku and Lo, had travelled the country for four years in a bid to find their son, but gave up in 1995.
Dad Ku said: “I still have this photo that was taken of him four days before he vanished…All I had left of him was this photo taken during the mid-autumn festival, when he was four years and 15-days-old.”
Tragically, Su Bin’s mum, Lo, passed away in 2011, and it was an understandably emotional moment when he was finally reunited with his father.
The pair broke down in tears, with Su Bin collapsing to the floor, overwhelmed by the moment.
Speaking at a press conference afterwards, he revealed that he doesn’t want his adoptive parents to be punished for their part in his abduction, and says that he wants to care for both families.
The headlines have been full of joyful reunions between families over the past year, with young Jodie Borchert being reunited with her mother after being missing for five years, and a 14-year-old Indonesian girl finding her family10 years after the tsunami.
These stories prove that there is always hope in these frightening situations.
