China woman reunites with birth parents after being abandoned in toilet by grandad 28 years ago
Banquet and firecrackers greet woman as she meets real family who plan to visit her adoptive Dutch parents this summer
A Chinese woman who was abandoned in a toilet as a newborn by her grandfather has reunited with her biological parents 28 years after being adopted by a Dutch couple.
Hong Yangli, 28, was born into a rural family in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, central China, as the third child, the mainland media outlet Daxiang News reported.
Her mother, Yang Xiaoying, said that a day after giving birth, her father-in-law offered to take the baby home and look after her.
Still weak after childbirth and with her husband away, she agreed.
It was the last time she saw her daughter.
The grandfather who favoured boys over girls abandoned the infant in a toilet in another village.
Yang said she grew to despise him after he refused to say where her daughter was, and she never spoke to him again, even before his death.