Mao Yin was just two when he was snatched outside a hotel in Xi'an in central Shaanxi province in 1988 and sold to a childless couple in neighbouring Sichuan province who raised him as their own son, Xi'an's public security bureau said in a statement.
But in late April, police in Xi'an were tipped off that a man in Sichuan province had bought a child from Shaanxi in the late 1980s, according to the statement from Xi'an officials.
Police tracked down Mao and later confirmed he was the abducted son of Li Jingzhi after a DNA test.
Mao, who runs a home decoration business in Sichuan, told CCTV he would move to Xi'an to live with his birth parents.
Police have helped more than 6,300 abducted children to reunite with their families over the past decade through the DNA matching system, official news agency Xinhua reported.
