Man from E. China Shandong expects to be reunited with his abducted son after 24 years
电影《失孤》原型找到儿子，刘德华得知郭刚堂寻亲成功非常激动
The good news is spreading on Chinese social media that the man from East China’s Shandong Province who had traveled over 500,000 kilometers on his motorbike to look for his abducted son, finally found his son after 24 years.
The 51-year-old man named Guo Gangtang from Liaocheng in Shandong and his son are expected to meet each other soon after being apart for 24 years. Guo’s son was abducted by human traffickers in 1997 when he was 2 years old. His son was found by joint efforts of the police in Shandong and Central China’s Henan provinces through DNA sequence alignment.
Guo’s experience of looking for his son on his motorbike and helping other families with their missing family members was adapted into the movie Lost and Love starring Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau, which premiered in 2015.
Since 1997, Guo has been looking for his son, riding his motorbike and traveling across China. Over the years, 10 motorbikes were damaged and scraped.
Although there have been many pieces of news claiming that his son was found, their DNA did not match.
Guo’s sharing of knowledge about abduction and human trafficking prevention on social media platforms such as Douyin have become popular among netizens. While looking for his own son, he also helped many other families with abducted children become reunited through the website he created.
According to media reports, Guo found his son, Guo Zhen, who is now living in Henan. The police will arrange for the father and son to meet soon. “He is fine. God treated me fairly,” Guo told the media.
Internet users were also touched by Guo’s story and congratulated the father for finding his son. “All sufferings have their reward,” a netizen commented on China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo. “I hope more families with missing members can reunite and I hope there are no abductions anymore,” another commented.
2015年，刘德华主演的电影《失孤》感动了无数人，这部电影如此让人动容，是因为它改编自一个真实的故事。
电影很悲情，在影片的最后，刘德华饰演的男主还是没有成功找到自己的孩子，让人感到非常遗憾。不过幸运的是，在现实生活中，《失孤》中男主角的原型郭刚堂终于找到了自己失散多年的儿子。
7月11日，郭刚堂告诉媒体，警方解救的孩子已经通过了DNA比对，确认是他的儿子郭振，孩子现在在河南，不久后警方会安排认亲。《失孤》导演彭三源告诉记者，自己几天前就已经得知了这个好消息，当时她一下子就哽咽了。很多人称赞郭刚堂能够成功找到儿子是刘德华的功劳，但彭三源反复强调这是公安的功劳，和电影没有太大关系，毕竟电影已经上映6年了。
彭三源还告诉记者，刘德华先生得知得知郭刚堂寻亲成功非常激动，回复了多个“双手合十”的表情。
