Li Jingwei was kidnapped in Yunnan province in 1989 and sold to a family thousands of miles away.
A Chinese man who was abducted over 30 years ago has been reunited with his biological mother after drawing a map of his childhood village from memory.
On 24 December he shared a hand-drawn map to the video sharing app, Douyin, which police matched to a small village and a woman whose son had disappeared.showed the pair meeting for the first time in over three decades and shows Li Jingwei carefully removing his mother's coronavirus mask to examine her face before breaking down in tears and embracing her.
Mr Li was abducted near the south-western city of Zhaotong in Yunnan Province in 1989 and subsequently sold to a family living over 1,800km away. "I'm a child who's finding his home. I was taken to Henan by a bald neighbour around 1989, when I was about four years old," he said in the video, which was shared thousands of times.
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