By Damien Gayle for MailOnline. A daughter who went missing from her parents 37 years ago after catching the wrong train has had an astonishing reunion with her mother. Jiang Ai-wu - now 43 - was just six when she got lost in her home town in Hunan province, south-central China, and tried to make her way home by train from the local station.
Her story echoes that of Australian Saroo Brierley, who was only reunited with his birth mother 25 years after he got lost on India's sprawling rail network aged four.
Scroll down for video. Tears: Jiang Ai-wu, left, is reunited with her mother Ju Yeh, 37 years after she got lost on a train in Hunan. Emotional: Family crowd around as the reunited mother and daughter sob into each other's arms. The harder I tried to get home, the further away I seemed to go,' said Ai-wu at the tearful reunion.
The frightened child ended up miles away in Xuzhou, a city in Jiangsu province in eastern China, where she was taken into care by the authorities. I didn't even know our address. Meanwhile, her frantic parents kept up the search for their daughter. Ju Yeh, her mother said: 'She had gone on a small errand but never came home. We were desperate. We went to the police, searched the city, went to all the train and bus stations but we couldn't find her.
Together: Jiang Ai-wu's parents and relatives pose for a family photo that's been 37 years in the making. The family were finally reunited when Ai-wu's daughter, Mei, contacted a missing persons website and spent nearly a year tracking down her relatives. Her persistence paid off, even though the family had moved north to Shanxi province. Yeh, now 70, said: 'I couldn't believe it when I received a phone call one day asking me if I'd ever had a daughter who'd got lost.
