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Desperate parents besiege website to find stolen children after father discovers son stolen three years ago living 1,000 miles away

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:25 PM on 10th February 2011

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* Chinese shopkeeper in tears as he returns home with six-year-old boy

There were joyful tears today as a young couple whose six-year-old son had been kidnapped three years ago returned home with him in tow.

Shopkeeper Peng Gaofeng had been busy with customers when a man snatched his son, aged four, in 2008 from the plaza in front of his shop as throngs of factory workers enjoyed a spring evening.

'I turned away for a minute, and when I called out for him he was gone,' he later said.

Wenle ended up 1,000 miles away living with a fake family under a false name - but now the family has been reunited thanks to the power of the internet, and in particular a microblogging site that has become a sensation in China.
Tearful Peng Gaofeng holds his son Wenle, who had been kidnapped for three years, as they arrive back in Shenzhen today

Tearful Peng Gaofeng holds his son Wenle, who had been kidnapped for three years, as they arrive back in Shenzhen today

Take A Picture To Rescue Begging Children helps parents find missing children - and since Peng, 30, found Wenle, it has been besieged by hopeful parents.

Peng, of Shenzen, Guangdong Province, had pasted large posters outside his shop begging for information before turning to the internet for help.

He blogged his experiences and posted a picture of his son, while offering a reward of around £100,000 for information leading to the rescue of his boy.

Then he received a message from a student in Peixian, eastern China's Jiangsu Province saying he had found a child who looked very much like Peng's son.

The student said he would take a picture of the boy and email it to Peng, who was overjoyed.

He and several police officers flew to the city and Peng was finally reunited with his son.

Six more children have been found already through the website, according to reports.
Peng with Wenle and his wife in Shenzen today. The couple's find has sparked a surge of interest in the microblogging site

Peng with Wenle and his wife in Shenzen today. The couple's find has sparked a surge of interest in the microblogging site

Many of the abducted boys are bought by families desperate for a male heir, say police.

The demand is especially strong in rural areas of south China, where the country’s strict family planning policies have turned the sale of stolen children into a thriving business.

Su Qingcai, a tea farmer from Fujian Province, spent £2,500 last year on a five-year-old boy.

'A girl is just not as good as a son,' said Mr. Su, 38, who has a 14-year-old daughter but whose biological son died at three months. 'It doesn’t matter how much money you have. If you don’t have a son, you are not as good as other people who have one.'

The microblog was set up in late January on leading portal Sina.com by Yu Jianrong, a professor of rural issues who has gained a reputation for activism on behalf of the downtrodden classes.

The blog encourages people to take pictures of child beggars and orphans and upload them in the hope that parents may see their missing child and track them down.

Abductions and human trafficking have become serious public concerns after a string of revelations, including a shocking 2007 scandal in which thousands were forced into slave labour in brick yards and mines across the nation.

Mounting outrage spurred a government crackdown, which according to state media resulted in thousands of adult and child victims being rescued.
Wenle pictured with his mother before the abduction from outside his father's store on a busy day in spring 2008

Wenle pictured with his mother before the abduction from outside his father's store on a busy day in spring 2008

In one recent case, the operator of an unlicensed shelter for disabled people in southwestern China sold at least 70 mentally ill workers to work as slaves in factories across the country.

However, there is a widespread public lack of confidencem often expressed on the Internet, in the authorities' willingness to fully address the problem.

Some parents searching for children have told state media that their attempts had been routinely thwarted by inertia and indifference from officials and police.

One follower of the missing-child blog posted a comment saying it was up to citizens to look out for their own rights, as the government could not be counted on to do so.

'Our government has so many failures. But activities like this provide hope,' it said.

Yu, an expert with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a leading government think tank, said on his blog that he had launched the campaign after a desperate parent sought his help in finding an abducted child.

The professor was already well-known for his efforts to help ordinary Chinese people who claimed mistreatment at the hands of officials.

China's government blocked Twitter in 2009 after authorities alleged social-networking services were being used to fan ethnic violence in traditionally Muslim northwestern China.

A range of high-profile foreign Internet services and websites including YouTube, Facebook and others are also blocked.

However, since the bar on Twitter, several Chinese clone sites led by Sina have sprung up, drawing an enthusiastic following from China's huge population of web users, the world's largest at 457 million.

Users have seized on micro-blogging as a new avenue for mass expression in a country whose Internet and other media are tightly controlled by a wary Communist Party.

Controversial public issues are often aired openly on microblogs, but the experts say the discussion is kept from boiling over by government censors who delete content or lean on providers to do so.

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