{"id":13069,"date":"2024-07-05T19:58:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13069"},"modified":"2024-07-05T19:58:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:58:27","slug":"man-finally-finds-his-parents-30-years-after-losing-them-at-train-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13069","title":{"rendered":"Man finally finds his parents 30 years after losing them at train station"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gouming Martens was separated from his parents when he was just three years old<\/h2>\n

A man has tracked down his parents after getting lost at a train station as a toddler 30 years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gouming Martens, who was three years old at the time, was found by kindhearted locals who sent him to a nearby orphanage.<\/p>\n

He was\u00a0travelling<\/a>\u00a0from his\u00a0parents<\/a>\u2019 home in\u00a0China<\/a>\u2019s Jiangsu province to his mother\u2019s hometown in Sichuan province when he lost track of them in 1994.<\/p>\n

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Gouming Martens was just three years old when he lost his parents at a train station (Jam Press)<\/cite><\/div>\n

He was later adopted by Dutch couple Jozef and Maria Martens in 1996 and was raised in\u00a0the Netherlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His adoptive parents christened him Gouming after the name given to him by the orphanage, Gou Yongming.<\/p>\n

His Dutch family was supportive of his 12-year search to find his biological parents, and together, they visited China in 2007 to look for clues, but the orphanage had since been shut down.<\/p>\n

Gouming spent the next five years relearning how to speak Mandarin and revisited China three more times in his\u00a0university<\/a>\u00a0years.<\/p>\n

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Gouming spend 30 years looking for his biological mom and dad (Jam Press)<\/cite><\/div>\n

In 2012, he registered his details with the Baby Huijia Volunteer Association in Tonghua City that helps reunite separated family members.<\/p>\n

Around the same time, he completed his studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Gouming then moved to Canada where he graduated with a PhD in linguistics from McGill University, and he currently works as an\u00a0AI<\/a>\u00a0speech recognition expert in\u00a0Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In October last year, volunteers informed him that they had matched his DNA with a woman named Wen Xurong.<\/p>\n

Wen and her husband Gao Xianjun had never stopped looking for the son they lost at the train station on that fateful day 30 years ago.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Gouming\u2019s father passed away in 2009.<\/p>\n

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Gouming with his adoptive parents. (Jam Press)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Gao Xianjun\u2019s brother asked Wen to register her DNA with the\u00a0police<\/a>\u00a0in 2017. After the DNA match was confirmed, Gouming was reunited with his mother in February this year.<\/p>\n

He visited his father\u2019s grave in Jiangsu and met his half siblings and aunts and uncles.<\/p>\n

An uncle even handed him his share of a compensation package his father received for the demolition of his house many years ago.<\/p>\n

The uncle had been saving it for him for over a decade, as reported by What’s the Jam.<\/p>\n

After launching a successful career in Canada, Gouming said he plans to return to China to see his relatives at least once every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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