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Maps Google Maps helped Chinese, kidnapped 23 years ago on the way to school, find a home, transmits Visitchina.ru . Vague memories, remaining with him, with the new technology was the beginning of the way home.
Liu Ganga was five years old when he was kidnapped near his school in Sichuan Province and transported hundreds of kilometers away, in the province of Fujian. There, in the city of Sanming, were waiting adoptive parents. In China, the widespread practice of kidnapping children for families who can not have children, and for some reason can not adopt an orphan. Some children get used to the new family, but Liu was not able to forget their loved ones. However, childhood memories fade with time have become. All you remember Liu — is that in his native village had two bridges. He grew up, went to live on their own, and it seemed like a dream to find their real parents will remain a dream.
But there came to help Internet and new technologies. Liu first published his story on a Chinese website devoted to the reunification of families with missing children. One of the visitors are reminded that, in Sichuan province have family who 23 years ago lost a child. Liu using Google Maps service has found the said village — and there is a satellite image showed the very same two bridges, which were stored in his memory! Liu immediately went to his village and found their parents, who did not hope to see his son alive.
We can assume that sin a story ended happily, but no one will return Liu and his parents happy years in his family and spent nerves. But the scale of this, do not give cause for optimism — in China every year, according to experts and media reports, tens of thousands of children go missing — a figure of 76000 families losing children every year — many of these children are kidnapped in the same way as Liu. Then the children are sold to families who do not have their children and their future may be very different.