Police help reunite twins after 46 years
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TWIN brothers were reunited over the weekend after being separated for 46 years, thanks to the help of Songjiang District police.
Now 50, Liu Yonghong and Tao Genfu were separated in 1968 as 4-year-olds.
Older twin Liu was adopted and taken to Harbin in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, where he still lives.
But he retained a memory of the Square Pagoda, a landmark in Songjiang District, and after his adoptive parents died he decided to return to Shanghai to trace his biological family.
In 1968, the twins’ parents, from Jiashan in Zhejiang Province, sent them to an uncle who lived near the pagoda.
But the uncle, who already had two children of his own, could not afford to raise both twins, so agreed for the elder to be adopted by a doctor, who named the boy Liu Yonghong.
Liu came to Shanghai from Heilongjiang in October and went to Chedun police station in Songjiang to ask for help.
Officer Xue Guoping managed to trace Liu’s aunt through visiting elderly people in the neighborhood.
The brothers were finally united over the weekend.
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