After being away from her hometown for 74 years, the 94-year-old grandma Zheng Quan finally returned to her natal family in Kinmen. She held hands with her natal relatives and burst into tears. The scene was emotional and moving.

Seventy-four years ago, Zheng Quan, who was in her early twenties, left her hometown of Kinmen to marry in Tsingtang Village, Jingfeng Town, Hui'an County, Fujian Province. Her husband went to Nanyang when she was pregnant and never came back.

Zheng Quan gave birth to a daughter. Her daughter and son-in-law passed away more than ten years ago. Now she is a great-grandmother and lives with her three grandchildren.

For seventy-four years, the landscape of her hometown Kinmen has often lingered in her dreams. She longs to return to Kinmen in her lifetime to soothe her homesickness.

On July 17, with the joint help of the cross-strait media "Xiamen Daily" and "Kinmen Daily", the 94-year-old grandma Zheng Quan took the "New Jimei" passenger ship from Xiamen Heping Pier and sailed directly to Kinmen.

On to Kinmen land.

Xu Jinlong, chairman of the Kinmen Love Foundation, said that enthusiastic groups and people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are very concerned about the historical scars of many villagers being separated and unable to return home due to cross-strait isolation. Elderly people who have been in contact with their relatives in their hometown of Kinmen are not able to return home because of their relatives.

There is a gap in the requirements for relationship and household registration certification, and those who are unable to apply to return home in the name of visiting relatives can fulfill their long-cherished wish to return home by following the model of grandma Zheng Quan and under the cross-strait "Human Care Action" mechanism.

Later, four more Kinmen grandmothers in Xiamen boarded the New Jimei ship and returned to their hometown after being separated from their hometown for decades.

The Xiamen Red Cross Society has specially set up a "Relative Search Relief Fund" to help elderly people whose hometown is in Taiwan fulfill their wish to return to their hometown.