A PhD graduate in linguistics, Gouming Martens of the Chinese descent has found his birth parents after a 12-year-long quest.
According to a report by South China Morning Post, Gouming was adopted by a couple from Netherlands when he was four-years-old after he got lost while travelling with this biological parents.
In 1994, Gouming got lost when his parents were travelling from their home in China's Jiangsu province to his mother's hometown in Sichuan province.
He was sent to an orphanage and was adopted in 1996 by a Dutch couple - Jozef and Maria Martens.
The trio visited China in 2007 to look for clues in the orphanage from where Gouming was adopted, only to find that it was gone by then.
A PhD graduate in linguistics, Gouming Martens of the Chinese descent has found his birth parents after a 12-year-long quest.
According to a report by South China Morning Post, Gouming was adopted by a couple from Netherlands when he was four-years-old after he got lost while travelling with this biological parents.
In 1994, Gouming got lost when his parents were travelling from their home in China's Jiangsu province to his mother's hometown in Sichuan province.
He was sent to an orphanage and was adopted in 1996 by a Dutch couple - Jozef and Maria Martens.
According to SCMP, the orphanage had named him Gou Yongming and after adoption, the Martens called him Gouming so that he could remember where he came from as they continued to support him in his search for his birth parents.
The trio visited China in 2007 to look for clues in the orphanage from where Gouming was adopted, only to find that it was gone by then.
The report claims that Gouming did part-time jobs during his college years to collect funds for his trips to China and spent additional five years to learn the Mandarin language.
