{"id":24562,"date":"2024-11-06T10:49:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T02:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=24562"},"modified":"2024-11-13T10:41:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T02:41:27","slug":"loved-ones-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2024\/11\/loved-ones-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Loved-Ones Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TV host Li Qiyue runs a missing person unit to help families reunite.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Cathleena Zhu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After being the host of a TV programme that helps reunite families for six years, Li Qiyue has learnt to be a better mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I often think about my relationship with my three-year-old son after learning stories of so many families. I realise that it is important to spend quality time with my child and respect him as an individual while nurturing him,” the TV host of Waiting for Me<\/em> says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Li says she always tries hard to strike a balance between time spent with her son and her career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI often have to travel to different cities for my work. I apply for leave for my son from his school and take him to work with me,\u201d the 37-year-old mother says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her son loves to draw landscapes he sees after doing a trip with his mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI sign him up for an art class and buy him a yoga mat, as he loves drawing and doing yoga. The TV programme has taught me to be a better mother,\u201d Li says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy husband and I want our son to see the world out there. I think children who have been exposed to a broader perspective will have better mental health,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Li Qiyue is sharing her searching experience of the boy with family problems. (Photo courtesy of Li Qiyue)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Li recalls her first search operation was to look for a 24-year-old man who had gone missing for nine years in Henan Province in February 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The young man tried to lift a huge flower pot and threw it at us. We had to suspend filming. I must try to understand his feelings. Children who have been separated from their families are insecure. They all have a lock in their hearts. I must try to find the key to open it,” Li says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Li tried to approach the young man as a friend by chatting with him about his diet and hobbies. It took her three days to persuade him to share his stories with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I felt a great sense of achievement from my job when he first talked to me,” she recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The TV programme Li produced was first aired on China Central Television (CCTV) in 2014. The show has so far helped more than 20,000 families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The programme which conducts searches to locate children who are abducted or have run away from home is funded by grants from the Yuanmeng Foundation and the Chinese government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Li\u2019s family also has experienced the same ordeal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her aunt was abducted while playing in a yard outside her home in 1964. She was five. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her family has been in a constant state of anxiety ever since, as her aunt is still missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were no mobile phones in Li’s home and no surveillance cameras on the country roads in the 1960s. It took her family three days to go to a police station to report the case in downtown Harbin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Li’s family printed out thousands of photos of her aunt and posted them all over the village. But all efforts were in vain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her grandparents often suffer from insomnia after losing their child.\u00a0Li\u2019s grandaunt\u00a0has\u00a0become moderately anorexic. She has forgotten almost everything, but finding her daughter is all she cares about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“After I was born, for as long as I can remember, I often heard my family talking about my aunt. Her story was something I grew up with. My parents taught me how to protect myself and not to trust strangers so easily when I was a child,” Li says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Li Qiyue comforts the 90-year-old man who loses his family. (Photo courtesy of \u201cWaiting for Me\u201d official website)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The media major graduate of the Communication University of China hopes to find her aunt with what she has learned at school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduation, Li joined CCTV. Her aunt\u2019s abduction was her biggest motivation to host Waiting for Me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI understand the sadness of these families who have suffered from separation from their loved ones. That is why I accepted the role of host when the producer offered me the job in 2018,\u201d Li says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since joining the team, she has reported stories of nearly 500 families whom she has helped reunite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the successes, more than 200 family searches conducted by Li\u2019s team failed to locate the missing ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I always remind these families that the search is not finished yet. I also remind myself that this is not the end of it. I am confident that I can find my aunt in the future. I will not give up,” the host says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sub-edited by Cynthia Chan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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