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'It took 32 years, but I finally found my kidnapped son'
Aug 7, 2020
Li Jingzhi spent more than three decades searching for her son, Mao Yin, who was kidnapped in 1988 and sold. She had almost given up hope of ever seeing him again, but in May she finally got the call she had been waiting for.
At weekends Jingzhi and her husband would take their toddler Mao Yin to the zoo, or to one of the many parks in their city, Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province in central China. And one of these outings has always remained especially vivid in her memory.
"He was about one-and-a-half years old at the time. We took him to the Xi'an City zoo. He saw a worm on the ground. He was very curious and pointed to the worm saying 'Mama, worm!' And as I carried him out of the zoo, he had the worm in his hand and put it close to my face," Jingzhi says.
Mao Yin was her only child - China's one-child policy was in full swing, so there was no question of having more. She wanted him to study hard and be successful, so she nicknamed him Jia Jia, meaning "great".
"Jia Jia was a very well-behaved, smart, obedient, and sensible child. He didn't like to cry. He was very lively and adorable. He was the kind of child that everyone liked when they saw him," Jingzhi says.
She and her husband would drop him off at a kindergarten in the morning and pick him up after work.
"Every day, after leaving work I played with my child," Jingzhi says. "I was very happy."
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