In January 1994, Wang Ming-ching and his wife, who were fruit sellers in Chengdu, China, lost their three-year-old daughter while giving change to their customer. Even after twenty years since then, Wang Ming-ching couldn’t give up seeking his daughter and began to work as a taxi driver to find her. He put posters with pictures of his daughter inside and outside the taxi, and handed his name card to customers, asking for a report.
His sad story was widely known through TV and the Internet. A woman in Jilin Province heard the story, and thought that the imagined, grown-up portrait of the little girl looked like her. Because she too was adopted when she was a little child, she contacted him just to be sure and conducted a genetic test with the help of a center for missing children. The test result proved that she was the daughter of Wang Ming-ching.
The mother, who could meet her daughter again in twenty-four years, burst into tears, blaming herself; the father, too, asked his daughter for forgiveness, saying that it was all his fault. The journalists who watched the family reunion reported that the commitment of parents who did not give up finding their daughter moved heaven.