Zhao Xuefang weeps as she practices singing at home in Xi'an city, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, June 15, 2011. Zhao, a woman in her 40s who works odd jobs, started writing songs five years ago yearning for her missing son, who was kidnapped from a railway station in Beijing in December 1994. Bearing the ordeal of losing her son, Zhao's family has been engaged in a desperate 17-year hunt throughout the country. She recently showed up at a song competition, in a bid to find her son. [Photo/CFP]