Lonely old man seeks adoptive family in return for his pension and posts heartbreaking newspaper advert to find them

A lonely old Chinese man has penned a heartbreaking newspaper advert in a bid to find a family willing to adopt him in exchange for his pension.

Huan Qi says he wakes up to an empty house every day feeling alone and miserable, so is willing to hand over his 6000 yuan monthly pension to fill the remainder of his life with warmth.

After careful consideration, the 75-year-old has decided to place an advert in the Changzhou Evening Newspaper looking for a harmonious and peaceful family to 'adopt' him.

He told the People's Daily Online that his wife passed away in 1999 and his surviving relatives do not visit often. 

 

His carer, Xiao Yun, lived with him for six years before getting married. 

'When she was married I handed her over like my own daughter and since then I have been an empty nester.'

Mr Huan, from Changzhou in Jiangsu province, describes his days as 'miserable' and the atmosphere in his sparsely decorated two-bedroom home as one of desolation.

'There is no one in the house, only me. I speak to myself and look at old photo albums,' he said.

Mr Huan has a 41-year-old son, in Changzhou, who lives in a work dormitory so is unable to take him in.

He adds that his son rarely visits and even then, it is only 'a short stop'. 

His older brother has died and his remaining siblings are in Shandong. He has a granddaughter, who is married with a son, but they do not visit him regularly.

Mr Huan says he has felt his physical abilities deteriorating in recent years.

'I still have a good mind and I go to the toilet very regular but my body isn't able to do everything I want anymore.'

Therefore, he has decided to give up his pension as well as his burial service savings to the family who takes up the offer of adopting him.

But central to his proposal is that the agreement is beneficial to both sides.

He is happy to let the chosen family live in his home in Changzhou rent-free or let it out if he moves in with them - but the property will eventually be left to his son.

And he has requested that when he dies, he is buried with his wife - the expenses for which will be covered by the savings he has put aside. 

Mr Huan, whose ancestral home is in Shandong Qingdao, came to Changzhou in 1972 for work and retired in 1999. 

In the early 1980s, he was a minister for the Shuyan Qu District Standing Committee and three years before he retired, he set up China's first 'Next Generation Library'.

Source: Daily mail