Wang Jinhu, who helped more than 300 family seekers find their families, finally reunited with his family in Shanghai

Luoyang and Shanghai are 1100 kilometers apart, and in the past twelve years, Wang Jinhu has used countless 2200 kilometers of round-trip trips to record the hardships he has made for the more than 300 family seekers of the "Henan Jiading" family search group, and he is the hope for people to find light in the darkness.

After helping many family seekers find their relatives, today in the conference room of the Jiading Public Security Bureau in Shanghai, Wang Jinhu, who is nearly 60 years old, finally met his 80-year-old mother Qin Zhenying, and the family finally ushered in a happy ending.

A conversation

Let him start "grouping" to find his relatives

Time to the beginning of April 2009, when Wang Jinhu, then 46, somehow talked about his own life in a small chat with an acquaintance. At that time, Wang Jinhu had learned from his adoptive parents that in the early 1960s, under the influence of the current situation, some families could not continue to raise their young children, so they had to send them away with tears, hoping to be adopted by well-wishers, not to starve or even die early, and he was one of these small lives.

Although Wang Jinhu also had the idea of finding his own parents after learning the truth, there were few clues in the sea of people, and even if he had the heart, he did not know where to start. Unexpectedly, in this casual chat, he not only knew his name "Mao Fan" before he was adopted, but also learned that he came from Jiading District of Shanghai, a thousand kilometers away. At that moment, the suppressed thought of finding relatives burst out again.

This year's "May Day" Golden Week, Wang Jinhu met about 18 fellow villagers who had similar experiences with him, and embarked on a journey to find relatives in Xuancheng for the first time. With the assistance of the Jiacheng Police Station of the Jiading Public Security Bureau, Wang Jinhu found information related to "Mao Fan" by consulting the household registration file, which clearly recorded the date on which the "Mao Fan" household registration was moved out in that year, which coincided with the time he knew to move into Luoyang, Henan, further confirming that today's Wang Jinhu is the "Mao Fan" who was born in Jiading. Among the companions, some people also found the original file that matched their current household registration, and a sense of joy that was getting closer and closer to the truth spread in this small search team.

In the next few days, under the rush of everyone, a "gathering to recognize relatives" was opened at the Nearby Police Station's Bacheng Experimental Primary School.

Limited by the speed of information dissemination at that time, not many families came to the rally to look for lost relatives, but there were also two families who vaguely identified the two families through identifying childhood photos and some vague memories, and vaguely recognized that the two may be their own children who were taken away. Although there is no Wang Jinhu's family, he is still happy for his companions, and he is full of expectations for his ability to find his family.

However, the analysis of biological samples compared with the feedback information that failed, so that the family search team returned to Luoyang with regret.

A phone call

It surprised and delighted him

The first defeat did not make everyone give up the idea of looking for relatives, the next year's "May Day" Golden Week, they gathered again and came to this former hometown, and then, the third year, the fourth year... Their family search journey lasted for twelve years, and the number of people slowly expanded from the initial 18 to more than 300 people, and wang Jinhu, the initiator of the year, has now become the leader of this family search group.

From 2009 to 2021, between the spring and autumn of the twelve years, Wang Jinhu and his family search group have reunited more than ten families that have been separated for many years, watching one child after another who has been thousands of miles away from home, returning to the arms of their parents, looking at a father and mother, who can hear the "father" and "mother" that appear in countless dreams again in their lifetime, Wang Jinhu's heart is touched, satisfied, but also has a sense of loss that is unclear and unclear. When he first set foot on the strange homeland of Jiading, he already knew his childhood name and knew that his roots were somewhere in the city, however, in the past twelve years, countless dreams have returned, but he has never been able to see his relatives, but just when he thought that this twelfth year would eventually be spent in the expectation of continuing, a phone call from the police of the Jiading Public Security Bureau made his calm heart wave again.

On the night of December 23, Wang Jinhu, who was having dinner with his wife, received a call, and the voice of Wang Xiang, a police officer from the Jiading Public Security Bureau, rang at the end of the phone, until the phone handset came with a "beep" sound after hanging up, but Wang Jinhu still maintained the answering action, at that moment, only a sentence that Officer Wang said to him in his mind, "Tell you a good news, we may have found your relatives, and this time the possibility is very large." "When he finally put down his mobile phone, there was an indescribable emotion in his heart that spread, it was joy, it was expectation, it could be fear, it was worry...

It turned out that on June 30 last year, shortly after Wang Jinhu found his daughter for the elderly Wang Gentao in the search team, the old man's son-in-law proposed that he must repay the kindness of the family search group. Under his contact and communication, Wang Jinhu's biological samples were collected in early June and sent to large and small cities in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, and on December 23, in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, near Jiading, Shanghai, Wang Jinhu's biological samples were compared with a local old uncle. Although it was later confirmed that the old man was not a direct family member of Wang Jinhu, but only a cousin of his, from the old man's mouth, he accidentally obtained an important piece of information: Wang Jinhu's family had lived in the Huating area of Jiading for a long time.

A reunion

It's the ending and the continuation

Through the information provided by the cousin, the community police at the Huating police station quickly found the family of Mrs. Qin, who may be Wang Jinhu's family. On the other hand, the members of the group stationed in Jiading also visited the Huating area, and when they showed the photos of Wang Jinhu when he was a child to the elderly people in the village, several people recognized them at a glance, and the person in the photo was "Mao Fan" who had been sent away. Once the situation on both sides was summarized, the possibility that Mrs. Qin's family was Wang Jinhu's family was further confirmed, and what was missing was the authoritative identification finally given from the biological sample, which was given from a scientific point of view. The next day, the police of the Criminal Division of the Jiading Public Security Bureau drove to mrs. Qin's home, collected biological sample information for the whole family, and began to analyze and compare without stopping.

On December 29, the preliminary comparison results confirmed that Wang Jinhu and Mrs. Qin were related, and on December 30, the results of the second retest were the same as the previous one. The information about the results of the comparison is very short, but it is true that a family relationship that has been submerged in the vast sea of people for nearly a year can be reunited again.

This morning, under the witness of the police and media reporters of the Jiading Public Security Bureau, Wang Jinhu, the leader of the family search group that reunited more than a dozen families, returned to his own relatives as he wished, and personally shouted out the "mother" that had been waiting for half a century. Wang Jinhu's story seems to come to a satisfactory end here, but he said that in fact, many years ago, his mother had seen him in the tv news, but because she could not let go of the guilt of sending away her own flesh and bones, even if she was sure in her heart that it was her lost child, she still did not have the courage to recognize him.

In recent years, although it has rarely been mentioned, there has always been an empty place in the hearts of the elderly. But the information that that a cursory glance could provide was really limited, and as I got older, my memory began to blur, and I could think of even fewer of them. This time the family was able to reunite, especially thanks to the Jiading police for their dedication to serving the people, which made him strengthen the faith in his heart, with his own personal experience, with all the help he can provide, to help more people in the future, to find the lost family affection.

The story of Wang Jinhu's search for relatives is over, but the story of Wang Jinhu, the leader of the family search group, continues, and the indissoluble relationship between Jiading Public Security and his family search group is also unfinished, to be continued...