Boy travels 1400km to see his parents

Yang Mingyi's grandmother wakes him up before dawn in Guben village, Jinping county, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture of Southwestern Guizhou province, on February 14, 2015. They have to leave home early as the 1400-kilometer trip would take them a whole day. [Photo/IC]

Yang Mingyi is a three-year-old boy in Jinping county, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture of Southwestern Guizhou province. He has spent most of his life with his grandparents as his parents work in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. This year, however, Yang's grandmother decided to take him on a 1400-kilometer trip to reunite the boy with his parents for the upcoming Spring Festival.