article_snippet: Wei vanished in September 1989, taken from the street by two strangers who no one ever saw again.
article_snippet: little boy, writing nearly 10,000 letters and appearing on television countless times, always holding the only photo her daughter had of Wei, taken when Wei was three years old.
article_snippet: Wei, who was given a different name, had no idea Lan Mingxi had been taken, thinking Lan Mingxi was an orphan .
article_snippet: : Xi was now living half way across the world in Angola, where he had moved a few years before to work as a driver.
article_snippet: It transpired Wei had been brought up by a foster family more than 1,000 miles away in Hebei, in the north of China.
article_snippet: Wei, like many other children in China, had no idea that Wei had not been orphaned, but snatched - so
article_snippet: Wei had no idea the pain Wei mother was feeling back at home.
article_snippet: Luck: this picture of her son was seen by one of Wei's friends, who thought they could be the same person.
article_snippet: Wei (far right) and Wei son, four, with his mother .
article_snippet: So when Wei returned to China to get Wei visa renewed, Wei took a blood test - proving
article_snippet: Wei was the missing youngster.
article_snippet: As for Wei, our son is still trying to come to terms with what has happened. '
article_snippet: I feel incredible,' Wei told Huaxi City Newspaper. '
article_snippet: Wei, who was raised with three older sisters and a younger brother, is also clear on our son responsibilities to our son mothers, even if our son isn't quite sure how it will work. '
highlights_snippet: Wrote 10,000 letters and appeared on TV numerous times trying to find Wei .
  
highlights_snippet: Showed picture of Wei aged three - and one of Wei friends recognised it .
  
highlights_snippet: DNA tests proved it was Wei, who had no idea he had been snatched .