Dutch-adopted man revisits China family, tells adoptive father ‘You’ll always be my dad’


By Fran Lu

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Eight months after the poignant reunion of a PhD graduate with his long-lost Chinese birth family – following his adoption to the Netherlands three decades ago – he brought his Dutch father to China to reconnect with his birth mother, envisioning a future filled with love and care from both families.

In early October, Gouming Martens, originally named Gao Yang, revisited his birth mother Wen Xurong’s home in Miyi county in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, accompanied by his adoptive father, Jozef Martens.

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