Man reunites with family after 22 years

detective work was nothing short of miraculous for him and his family.

Photos were sent to him to confirm whether the man was his father.

Being 80 percent sure, the son identified his father by talking to him directly using WeChat, the popular social messaging app.

Two days ago, the son and his wife rushed to take a flight and arrived in Hanoi.

“I was so excited to hear the news about my father after 22 years,” Cao said while repeating his heartfelt thanks to the Chinese embassy for helping his family so immeasurably.

With smiles on their faces, Cao’s hospital roommates, who have also been worried about him, were happy for their new Chinese friend.

“We thought that he had no family and was homeless as he could neither talk nor remember anything. Thank God, his son found him now,” Nguyen Duy Thoa, a 59-yearold patient who was in the same treatment room with Cao, said with a heavy sigh of relief.

Though Cao could not express his feelings, his Vietnamese friends could fully understand all of his emotional expressions.

“It was after Cao talked to his son, he kept going in and out the room continuously as if he was waiting for someone. And he even smiled, a lot,” Thoa said of his foreign friend.

Cao’s son took him home to China on Thursday for further and sustainable treatment.