Going home to celebrate the New Year is a complex that all Chinese people cannot let go of. On the eve of the Lunar New Year, a heart-warming story of returning home and reuniting was played out across most of China. January 14, 2017, Liu Jianshun’s home in Huadian City, Jilin Province. A large family was happily taking reunion photos, but no one would have imagined how difficult it would be to reunite a family that traveled 8 years and 5,000 miles away. Liu Jianshun's younger sister, Liu Jianyun, has been homeless for eight years due to illness and has just been escorted back to her family by the civil affairs department of Wulingyuan District, Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province.
Back on January 25, 2013, the Wulingyuan District Rescue Station in Zhangjiajie City rescued a female homeless person. After being unable to ask for her name and home address, she was sent to Zhangjiajie Brain Hospital for treatment in accordance with the principle of treatment first and rescue later. The hospitalization lasted until June 27, 2014. After his condition improved, he was transferred to Cili Yongan Nursing Home in Zhangjiajie City. In hospitals and nursing homes, she has no name and is replaced by "Wulingyuan No. 1".
After nearly four years of regular health check-ups, reasonable nutritious meals and careful care by professional nurses, she miraculously regained her memory after she accidentally fell and injured her head and was hospitalized. She remembered that her name was Liu Jianyun and that her brothers Liu Jianshun and Liu Jianrong lived in Huadian City, Jilin Province. She could clearly write her name and home address on paper, and expressed the hope that she could help her find her relatives and send them home. On December 9, 2016, after extensive searches at the Wulingyuan District Rescue Station in Zhangjiajie City, the household registration information of the two brothers was finally verified and contact was made.
On January 11, 2017, the civil affairs department of Wulingyuan District, Zhangjiajie City decided to escort Liu Jianyun home. I did a simple check-up at Zhangjiajie Cili Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, brought emergency medicines, and prepared cold-proof clothing.
From Zhangjiajie City in Hunan Province to Huadian City in Jilin Province, 2,500 kilometers. At 14:00 on the 12th, four staff members escorted Liu Jianyun on the K2286 train from Kunming to Changchun, starting a thousand-mile journey to find his relatives...
Many years ago, Liu Jianyun married in Shandong from Jilin, and ran away from home due to illness eight years ago. Her family searched for her across the country many times to no avail, thinking that she was no longer alive. At some point, her husband divorced her, and her household registration information was lost, making her a "black household". After applying from the civil affairs department and the railway department, they were able to take trains. This also raised the question of how rescue recipients like Liu Jianyun can take transportation normally.
After a 40-hour long journey, the train arrived at Jilin Changchun Railway Station at 6 a.m. on the 14th, and home was closer. Liu Jianyun seemed to realize that she was about to see her family. She was not good at words and kept expressing her gratitude to the staff who escorted her home.
At 11 noon that day, the staff escorted Liu Jianyun to transfer to Huadian City, Jilin Province. After a brief handover with the rescue station in Huadian City, Jilin Province, Liu Jianyun finally met his long-missed family.
Civil affairs staff who escorted Liu Jianyun home took a group photo with his family
Relatives held her hand tightly and never let go. They asked about Liu Jianyun's situation cordially, took reunion photos and had reunion dinner. After years of worries, the family was finally reunited. Liu Jianyun's fourth brother Liu Jianrong said excitedly: "Thanks to the good policies of the country and the seriousness and responsibility of the civil affairs department in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, my sister was sent home across 5,000 miles, so that our family can be reunited. I am really grateful to them."
"I just saw the scene of the reunion of Liu Jianyun and his family, which deeply moved us civil affairs people. Although it is freezing outside, our hearts are full of warmth." Tang Guosheng, deputy director of the Civil Affairs and Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau of Wulingyuan District, Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province, said, "As our civil affairs department The rescue agency is responsible for the four-year rescue of Liu Jianyun. It can be said that she is miserable and lucky. Fortunately, with the good policies of the party and the government and the unremitting efforts of the civil affairs people, she can return to her hometown and return to her relatives as the Spring Festival approaches. "