For police, finding the abducted kids is not the end of their mission. It is the beginning of another -- helping the children find way home.

As most of the children were abducted at young ages, they usually had no memory of their birth parents.

To help the children find home, the Public Security Ministry set up a webpage on October 28 on its website www.mps.gov.cn, and released the information of 60 abducted children with their pictures, names, ages, time of being abducted, present location and contacts. The ministry promised to continue to release information of more rescued children.

DNA samples of the kids and the parents who lost their children were collected and stored in a database. Only after DNA comparison could parents be allowed take away their kids.

Wang Bangyin found his son only one day after the webpage was set up.

"I received a phone call from local police asking me to identify my boy," he recalled.

"I recognized him at the first sight...I could never forget his face and the scar on his face which was left after he bumped his head against a nail when he was a baby..." said Wang. DNA test also confirmed the boy was his son.

While overjoyed with his son's return, Wang also felt a little bit hurt by the boy's coldness to him.

According to local police, abducted children could be sold three or four times. Price for a child ranges from 30,000 to 80,000 yuan (4,411.8 to 11,764.7) each.

Wang's son had been sold for five times before being rescued by the police. The boy had been living with his new family for about two years when being found. When he was taken away by the police, both the boy and his "new parents" cried.

"Such experiences brought serious psychological trauma to the kids," police officer Xu said.

According to a teacher with the Guiyang children welfare center where the rescued kids stayed before their birth parents were found, most of the children showed signs of anxiety and fear.

"Sometimes the kids would fidget and smash things. Their appeared apathetic and had little facial expressions even when they were playing games," said the teacher, who declined to be named.

Afraid of losing his son again, Wang said he had decided to leave the city and move back to his hometown village.

"I do not know how long it would take for my boy to recover. But I am glad that at least he is back home. And I will never lose him again," he said.

(Xinhua News Agency November 17, 2009)