When a dying woman expressed a wish to see her baby girl given up for adoption many years earlier, a well-meaning substitute made the family feel whole again. Cang Wei and Song Wenwei report in Nanjing.

With the best of intentions, 32-year-old Jin Bing pretended to be an old couple's daughter for six years.

One day at the end of 2006, the young woman, then 26, was watching TV. The program was about an old farmer, with tears streaming down his face, looking for his daughter, whom he gave to another family when she was just 20 days old.