The Lunar New Year is approaching, regardless of the world, cities and villages, people go to reunion and feel family affection, which is a convention that has not changed for thousands of years. At 6 p.m. on February 8th, the live broadcast planned by "Douyin Looking for People" with the theme of "Let's Talk About Our Reunion Story" was opened on time in the live broadcast room of @Xiaoxi. During the event, Wang Tong and Lu Xue, hosts of Qilu Channel of Shandong Radio and Television Station, gathered in the live broadcast room with Yan He and his family, Douyin tracing volunteers, Tang Weihua, and the staff of Binzhou Rescue Management Station and Liaocheng Rescue Service Center to talk about the reunion story through live broadcast connection and ***.
18 years ago, Yan He, who suffered from congenital diseases, went missing from his hometown in Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, and was finally rescued by the rescue station in Rizhao City, Shandong Province in 2017. Since then, the aid station has successively released Yan He's family search information through platforms such as Toutiao and Douyin, and finally helped him find his relatives.
On the day of the reunion, the short ** recorded this unforgettable moment. Yan He's parents knelt down to thank him, and the scene of his younger brother carrying his brother home touched countless netizens. More than 100,000 people liked it under the short **, and many netizens left messages, "Family is always the strongest backing", "This is a real family, and he will not give up on him because of his defects".
In this Spring Festival reunion live broadcast, the host connected Yan He again through **. I saw Yan He smiling brightly in the camera, and his father, who was with him, happily greeting everyone. Yan He's father said that in the 18 years since his child was lost, he and his family have never given up searching, and now they can finally have a reunion year as a family, and he and his family are "very happy!" ”
Reunion in the live broadcast room
In 2023, with the help of Douyin Search, more and more families will find their long-lost relatives and reap the long-awaited reunion. During the live broadcast, Wang Tong and Lu Xue emotionally recalled several stories of family search that made them unforgettable last year.
Suffering from mental illness, Wang Shule from Rizhao, Shandong Province, has lost her way home since she left home 13 years ago. Last year, Shandong Radio and Television Qilu Channel's public service column "Xiaoxi Service" broadcast the news of Mengyin County Rescue Management Station looking for relatives for Wang Shule and other 3 recipients, and at the same time made a short ** posted on the Douyin platform, but I didn't expect it to really contribute to the reunion of him and his family.
It turned out that many netizens recognized Wang Shule from this short ** to find relatives, including his niece. The latter quickly contacted the program team and said that the old man was his uncle. The niece recalled that after the uncle went missing, the family mobilized relatives and friends to search for him, and also posted countless leaflets to find the missing person, but the news of the uncle was always lost. Now that she can reunite with the old man again, she said that she is not only grateful for the help in the show, but also thanks to the power of networks such as Douyin Search.
Set off and set off, Wang Shule returned to his hometown after a long absence with the help of the staff of the aid station. Wang Shule, who was surrounded by his family in the live broadcast room, always had a smile on his face. This family, which has been separated for 13 years, can finally have a reunion dinner this year.
Zhao Xiujun, a 33-year-old man with cancer, also found his family through Douyin. In 2022, Zhao Xiujun needed the blood of his parents due to thyroid cancer**, and unexpectedly learned that he was not born to his parents. In desperation, he had to post on Douyin to find his relatives** and shouted to his biological parents, "Mom, I'm sick, I have money to treat my illness, as long as you have a tube of blood ......."”
Sichuan Linshui family search volunteer @Linshui Ganbiao After knowing Zhao Xiujun's family search story through **, he invited him to Chengdu, Sichuan Province to live broadcast the family search, hoping to help him spread the family search information through more social forces. Half a year later, the good news came, Zhao Xiujun's DNA information was successfully compared, and he finally found his parents who had been thinking about him day and night. On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, Zhao Xiujun's biological father rushed from Sichuan to Shandong to reunite with his son and his adoptive parents. The two fathers shared a common wish: "to cure their child's illness".
Looking for his biological parents is the bravest thing that 34-year-old Jilin ** Daxu Daxu feels he has done in his life. In November last year, Daxu, who learned his true background, began to look for relatives on Douyin. She first told her life experience and adoption information one by one through a short **, and then made a special trip to her birth and adoption place to find her relatives live broadcast, hoping to find her relatives with the help of the power of the Internet.
Later, with the help of Douyin tracing volunteers such as @LinshuiGanbiao, Daxu found his cousin's family, and with the help of the latter, he contacted his parents in Guang'an, Sichuan. With the help of short ** and live broadcast, Daxu's two-month search journey on Douyin finally came to a successful end. This Spring Festival, she returned to her parents' home to reunite with her loved ones - this is their first reunion year after 34 years of separation, and it is also the beginning of many happy days in the future.
Douyin is looking for people to help reunite
Over the past eight years, every time the Douyin Tracing Project has found a lost person, it has benefited from the efficient connection of resources from all walks of life. Among them, volunteers play an important role in the tracing process.
The data shows that the total number of people on Douyin is about 260,000 volunteers, from all walks of life, distributed in 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country, the youngest is 16 years old, the oldest is 76 years old, not only takeaway brothers, barbecue restaurant owners, police, aid station staff, etc., but also the parties who have successfully turned into volunteers after successfully searching for relatives.
Tang Weihua, who participated in the live broadcast connection that day, is one of the Douyin tracing volunteers, and he is also a family tracing party who has been looking for his son for 25 years. Since 2020, Tang Weihua has been looking for his son while helping other parents find their children, and has helped 45 abducted children return home one after another. "I believe there will be a reunion for me and my son," she said. ”
The staff of Liaocheng Rescue Service Center and Binzhou Rescue Management Station also appeared in the live broadcast room to share their rescue experience in the past year. Last year, the Liaocheng Rescue Service Center strengthened the work of tracing the relatives of the recipients, and successfully searched for the relatives of 16 recipients throughout the year; The Binzhou Aid Station carried out the work of searching for relatives of stranded people and escorting them back to their hometowns through Douyin live broadcast, and helped a total of 59 stranded people reunite with their families throughout the year. During the live broadcast, the staff of the Binzhou rescue station said, "Special thanks to the technical support provided by Douyin to reunite the homeless people who have been lost for many years with their families." ”
Helping separated families reunite is inseparable from the joint efforts of volunteers, aid stations, public security organs, public welfare organizations, and enthusiastic netizens across the country, as well as the scientific and technological power and platform resources of Douyin Search.
It is reported that Douyin Tracing (formerly known as Toutiao Tracing Person) is a public welfare tracing project launched by ByteDance in February 2016, the core principle is to distribute tracing information based on geolocation accurate pop-up window technology to help all kinds of separated families find lost people.
As of January 2024, the total number of people tracing and recovering on Douyin has exceeded 22,000, making it one of the largest online public welfare tracing platforms in China. The relevant person in charge of Douyin said that he hopes to inspire goodwill with science and technology, mobilize "everyone to help everyone", and help more lost people go home.