Home in Shanghai after 56 years

A 91-year-old maestro of World War II arrived in town yesterday to be reunited with his family after netizens as well as volunteers helped him to locate his brothers after roughly 60 years apart.

Cai Linsen hugged his youngest brother, Cai Shouxin, who is 83, in the road house in Yangpu District yesterday afternoon, with laughter as well as tears upon the aged men's faces.

"My brother, it's really been the long, prolonged time!" Cai Linsen told his younger sibling, his voice tremor with fad as well as emotion.

Cai Shouxin came from Jiaxing City in Zhejiang Province for the reunion, accompanied by volunteers.

They will visit another brother, Cai Yunhui, 89, who is reduction mobile, in Hongkou District.

Cai Linsen, who lived in Baoshan City of Yunnan Province, hadn't seen his family given he final returned to Shanghai in 1954.

In 1942 he was sent to Yunnan to correct the main road from Yunnan to Myanmar as well as later to India for troops training. Cai Linsen was afterwards dispatched to an artillery ordain as the mechanic as well as has lived in Yunnan ever since. Cai Linsen's mother as well as sister visited him in Yunnan after he married there.

But he pronounced he was bad at which time as well as hadn't come back to Shanghai. In time, the alternative brothers mislaid hit with him.

His story was posted upon the microblog upon Sina.com by Sun Chunlong, the journalist with Oriental Outlook, the weekly magazine. It was retweeted roughly 700 times with 174 comments in three weeks. A internal college student, surnamed Peng, helped to find Cai Yunhui in the city as well as with alternative volunteers coordinated the reunion.

Cai Linsen was one of 27 maestro soldiers helped by volunteers regulating microblogs upon the Internet in the month.

Chinese celebrities final month started volunteering upon their microblogs at t.sina.com.cn to assistance World War II veterans find mislaid relatives.

Cai Linsen's homecoming was broadcast by netizens.