[Post 817] Parents Search Across China To Find Their Abducted Children | No Ordinary Rescue | Full Episode

Summary

In China, about 200,000 children reportedly go missing each year. Most of them are abducted and trafficked for a lucrative sum of money to families.

Many parents who lost their children spent years scouring remote villages in physical searches that yielded few results. However, things soon changed with the emergence of popular social platforms like Douyin. These parents leverage social media to quickly disseminate information about their missing children and collect leads from concerned netizens for their searches.

At the same time, the advanced facial recognition technology enabled the police to narrow down searches effectively, leading to multiple successful discoveries of missing children. But miracles seem to have forsaken some. Du Xiaohua’s son went missing 13 years ago, he has been searching relentlessly ever since. He often goes on long, tedious search trips to verify the leads he has gathered online, hoping not just to uncover his lost child but also other missing children.