A group photo of Yang Suhui and other parents who search for their missing children [Taizhou Evening News]

Yang Suhui, 56, from Zhejiang Province, eastern China, has been searching for her lost son named Xu Jianfeng for over 25 years in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, arousing widespread attention across the nation.

Sun Haiyang, the prototype of the lead role who played in the well-known local film Dearest, along with many parents from the Baby Back Home Campaign, a volunteer group that helps search for missing children nationwide, recently paid a visit to Yang, giving their much support and encouragement.

Sadly, Yang was diagnosed with lung cancer at the end of 2014 and she was given slim chances of recovery. What she hoped was that she could see her son one more time, and she said she would not give up searching until the very end of her life.

Last week, doctors told her that the disease was worse than before and her cancer has spread. Still, she was not defeated by the disease, and she is on painkillers every day.

Yang told reporters that her son was lost when he was four years old in an apartment block in Guangzhou on June 25, 1991. She resigned from her job as a kindergarten teacher and moved there from her hometown, to make it more convenient for her to undergo her search.

In the past two decades, she has been to different provinces, municipalities and regions. And she has used newspapers, TV as well as websites to try to locate him.

She became desperate due to being defrauded by strangers who offered her a vague hope. But she soon started her efforts again when she saw some youngsters returned home through the efforts of a national media campaign.

Since she lost her son, her relationship with her husband has deteriorated. They finally divorced in 2000.

Twenty-five years have passed and her son has not been found yet, but she has already helped other children return home.

In 2009, she found a boy with an ID and photo that looked much like her son. It took her three years to finally communicate with him to confirm. But DNA tests came back negative. A year later, the boy found his own parents in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

This year, she even set up a massage store and put up several big posters on the wall, so that other people could provide clues when they saw the images.

Anyone with information about Yang Suhui's son is urged to call the missing person's helpline on 020-81919191.

(Source: Guangzhou Daily/Translated and edited by Women of China)

By Cao XiaoqingEditor: Jane Wang