Chinese taxi driver finally reunited with missing daughter after 24-year search
Father’s refusal to give up hunt to find girl who disappeared in 1994 is ultimately rewarded after she responds to social media appeal
A taxi driver from southwest China who spent 24 years searching for his missing daughter will finally be reunited with her on Tuesday after she responded to his appeal for information.
Wang Mingqing and his wife Liu Chengying briefly took their eyes off their daughter Qifeng, who wandered off while they were busy running their fruit stall in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, in January 1994.
The girl’s father told the West China Daily: “It was only five minutes and then my daughter was gone.”
The couple abandoned their stall to search for their daughter, but for years their efforts appeared to be in vain.
Although the couple went on to have a second child, they never gave up looking for the girl.
In 2015 Wang became a taxi driver. When he noticed how much his customers were using their phones, he enlisted their help by asking them to post appeals on social media in the hope his missing daughter might see them.
He also printed and distributed 10,000 fliers that outlined the details of the case, including a description of how the young girl looked when she went missing in January 1994 and a local newspaper also published a report about his appeal.