Chinese woman who vanished after catching wrong train is reunited with her family 37 YEARS later

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 style="font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px 0px 4px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" x-created-in="cc"> <br /></h1> <ul class="article-summary news mol-bullets-with-font" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 1px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 15px;"> <li class="" style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 15px 2px 2px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jiang Ai-wu was just six when she got lost from her home in Hunan province</strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 15px 2px 2px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The frightened child ended up getting taken into care in a city 450 miles away</strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 15px 2px 2px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After a year-long hunt by her daughter she was reunited with her mother </strong></li> </ul> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="relatedItems" data-track-module="am-related_items^related_items" data-track-pos="static" data-track-selector="a:not([class*=external])" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <ul style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A daughter who went missing from her parents 37 years ago after catching the wrong train has had an astonishing reunion with her mother.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jiang Ai-wu - now 43 - was just six when she got lost in her home town in Hunan province, south-central China, and tried to make her way home by train from the local station.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Her story echoes that of Australian Saroo Brierley, who was only reunited with his birth mother 25 years after he got lost on India's sprawling rail network aged four.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font mol-style-bold" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Tears: Jiang Ai-wu, left, is reunited with her mother Ju Yeh, 37 years after she got lost on a train in Hunan" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="0" height="522" id="i-73b41fa9f673809e" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/18/1408362820033_Image_galleryImage_Pic_shows_Jiang_Ai_wu_lef.JPG" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; 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min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Emotional: Family crowd around as the reunited mother and daughter sob into each other's arms" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="1" height="422" id="i-c47322b5c1548050" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/18/1408362923062_wps_1_Pic_shows_Daughter_Jian_A.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; 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The harder I tried to get home, the further away I seemed to go,' said Ai-wu at the tearful reunion.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The frightened child ended up 450 miles away in Xuzhou, a city in Jiangsu province in eastern China, where she was taken into care by the authorities.</span></div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="relatedItemsTopBorder" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727857/Chinese-woman-went-missing-home-catching-wrong-train-reunited-family-37-YEARS.html#ixzz3AnKXao2t" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727857/Chinese-woman-went-missing-home-catching-wrong-train-reunited-family-37-YEARS.html#ixzz3AnKXao2t</a><br />Follow us: <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=MailOnline" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@MailOnline on Twitter</a> | <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=DailyMail" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DailyMail on Facebook</a></span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'I always wanted to find my own family, I dreamed of it, but I was so young I didn't know how to find them. I didn't even know our address.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Gradually I had to concentrate on the life I had but I never gave up hoping that one day, my mother and father would come and get me.'</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, her frantic parents kept up the search for their daughter.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ju Yeh, her mother said: 'She had gone on a small errand but never came home. We were desperate. We went to the police, searched the city, went to all the train and bus stations but we couldn't find her.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'We didn't know what to think had happened but in my heart I never forgot my little girl and sent a prayer to her every night.'</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="moduleFull mol-video" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="namedLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6089869001362915509" name="video" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"></a></span><br /> <div class="item" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <div id="v-3736268879001" style="margin: 0px; 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padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Together: Jiang Ai-wu's parents and relatives pose for a family photo that's been 37 years in the making</span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The family were finally reunited when Ai-wu's daughter, Mei, contacted a missing persons website and spent nearly a year tracking down her relatives.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Her persistence paid off, even though the family had moved north to Shanxi province.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yeh, now 70, said: 'I couldn't believe it when I received a phone call one day asking me if I'd ever had a daughter who'd got lost.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Then my little Ai-wu came on the line and it was as if she'd never been away.'</span><br /> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ai-wu added: 'We have a lot of catching up to do - I have a huge new family to get used to now.'</span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>

Chinese woman who vanished after catching wrong train is reunited with her family 37 YEARS later

Jiang Ai-wu was just six when she got lost from her home in Hunan province The frightened child ended up getting taken into care in a c...

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