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After 24-year search, Chinese man reunited with kidnapped son

Screengrab of Guo Gangtang and his wife crying and hugging their son Guo Xinzhen, 26. [Courtesy]

A man has finally reunited with his abducted son after a 24-year hunt across China, handing out missing-person flyers, that burned through his savings and left him with massive debts.

Guo Gangtang, 51, began searching for his then 2-year-old son after he was kidnapped in 1997 from their home in a village in the eastern province of Shandong.

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