Beijing: Baby Back Home, or Baobeihuijia.com, was launched by Zhang and her husband Qin Yanyou in 2007 to help families find their missing or abducted children. From an office in Tonghua, a city in the northeastern province of Jilin, Zhang and her team—with the support of over 360,000 volunteers across the country—have helped more than 3,600 people reunite with their biological parents. But she hopes there will come a time when the website is no longer needed.
Zhang has been widely honored for her campaign, and has been awarded a range of accolades, including a national honorary title for female role models conferred by the All-China Women’s Federation on February 26. She is also a deputy to the 13th National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature. In recent years, in her role as a lawmaker, she has advocated for harsher penalties for human traffickers and stronger protection for children. Long-awaited reunions: Yin Kaiqiang was abducted over 26 years ago, when he was barely 2 years old. On January 8, with the help from Baby Back Home, he finally reunited with his family.
On March 11, 1995, Yin’s mother and grandmother took him to a tourist site in Shenzhen in the southern province of Guangdong as a routine, where they had a stall to sell trinkets and souvenirs to visitors.
The women were busy catering to customers. After finishing a deal, the mother looked for her son, but couldn’t find him. A witness said a stout middle-aged man had carried the boy away while he cried for his mother. The family reported the case to the police and scoured the nearby areas for him, but to no avail. The heartbroken family never abandoned their search. In 2009, Yin’s aunt heard about Zhang’s website and sought help. At the suggestion of a volunteer,
– The Daily Mail-Beijing Review News exchange item
