Feifei (L) goes to the police station at the Temple of Heaven to thank police officer Hou Xiangwei (R) on September 19. (Photo/Beijing Times)
Cao Haofei, or Feifei, is a 23-year old Chinese-American woman who recently came back to China to look for her biological parents.
She was found crying alone at the Temple of Heaven, a famous tourist attraction in Beijing, one day 22 years ago.
After the local policeman Hou Xiangwei learned about it, he took the girl to the police station. Finding the child wore bandages on her right hand, the policeman took her to a hospital, only to find that her right hand was burned and the fingers needed to be amputated.
After failing to find the parents, the police had to send Feifei to a local orphanage, where she stayed until she was seven, when she was adopted by an American couple. Feifei returned to visit China when she was 16 and undertook volunteer work at the orphanage every summer vacation.
When she graduated two years ago, she came to China to study the language. This May, she learned about the police station where she was first taken and found by the police officer, Hou Xiangwei. She thanked him for saving her and asked him to help find her birthparents.
