Kidnapped woman finds mother after 25 years

A woman abducted by human traffickers 25 years ago was finally reunited with her birth mother in Guangdong province on Tuesday.

Surnamed Weng, the young woman wept as she embraced mother Cai Juanjuan for the first time at the Shenzhen Baoan International Airport, a reunion made possible with the help of an NGO and a national DNA database, Shenzhen Evening News reported.

Shenzhen police informed Weng of the DNA match after a local NGO helped her submit DNA samples to a local police station earlier this year.

Cai, who flew from Rui'an, Zhejiang province to meet her child, had registered in the database for abducted and missing children soon after it was first established in 2009.

Weng was reportedly abducted in 1989 while her grandmother went grocery shopping. But despite the odds, Cai never gave up hope.

Weng was aware she was adopted at a young age. She explained her adoptive parents, who live in Putian, Fujian province and have two biological sons, always wanted a daughter.

Weng said they have treated her well and supported her search for her birth parents.