Can you imagine that there is a daughter in China who didn't know her mother’s name for 35 years? This daughter's name is Li Xinmei, let's call her Mei. Mei was born in a rural village in a province in middle China. Her mother always spoke a language that everyone around her could not understand. Growing up she remembers her mother did not seem to have a name.
The neighbors in the village, and even her own father, would only call her "Hey". Mei wanted to uncover the mystery of her mother's background so she started to write about her mother's story on social media and searched for her mother’s hometown’s info, hoping to find clues…
Mei once learned from her deceased father that her mother actually was sold to her father in a railway station 35 years ago. Her father paid 1,000 yuan to buy his wife. Mei's mother tried to escape twice, but failed.
In September of 2020, thanks to the active social network, Mei finally found her mother's original family and learned that her mother's name was Deliang.
In August of this year, a video circulated on mainland China, about a father who had finally found his abducted daughter:
In 2000, his daughter was admitted to a university in Sichuan. The father happily sent the daughter to the university, but since then he had lost contact. Seventeen years later, the father finally found his daughter and cried. For his daughter’s 17-year youth was lost as she was detained in a horrible place.
A Chinese director once filmed a movie "Blind Mountain" on this topic. The film is based on a real story that happened in the 90s.
A young college student was cheated in a rural village in northern China when looking for job. She was forced to marry and give birth to a child. She tried various ways to escape. However, each time she was captured by the family and people in the whole village. She wanted to ask for help by mailing a letter but was later told that the postman had been bribed by the village. One woman in the same village told her that most of the women in this village were bought from human traffickers.
Why is there such a serious human trafficking problem in China? Many analysts believe that the most direct cause is the serious imbalance in the ratio of men to women, which was caused by China’s family-planning policy. Most families prefer to have boys rather than girls. According to research conducted by the author of "Leftover Women in China", the ratio of baby boys to girls in China reached a peak of 121 to 100 in 2008.
Another reason is the unequal household registration policy and poverty in China. In rural areas men are disadvantaged in the marriage market because they do not have enough income to afford a normal marriage. They have to resort to alternative ways of cheating, or buying a wife from human trafficking gangs. In those remote mountain villages, people believe that a bought wife is the legal "property" of the village. China’s "Criminal Law" contains regulations on trafficking. However, the local government usually pretends not to see such illegal actions, because the government does not want unstable events happening and they have no way to solve the poverty problem.
Who are causing such immeasurable and endless tragedy?
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