Mission

Nanchang Project exists to serve the community of Chinese adoptees who are searching for biological relatives in China.

Goals

To provide Chinese adoptees with a greater sense of identity by giving them access to their histories and birth culture.

To reconnect Chinese adoptees from anywhere in China with their birth families when possible.

To educate the general public on the complex issues that make children available for adoption.

To provide emotional support to birth families in China and adoptees living abroad.

To provide support to families who adopt domestically within China.

History

Nanchang Project was founded in February 2018 by two adoptive moms with children from Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. After unsuccessful professional searches for their children’s birth families, they took matters into their own hands. They learned Chinese social media through late night chat sessions, and created media content to advertise their searches. Their posts were shared widely, and they asked fellow adoptive families to join with them in a group search video. In the ensuing months, they traveled to China to publicize the project, and the Project quickly grew to represent adoptees from all areas of China.

Today, Nanchang Project’s leadership and volunteer teams have both grown in size with members based all over the world. We are the only organization of its kind that is simultaneously a) focused on reconnecting international adoptees with their roots and birth families in China and b) co-led by adoptees and adoptive parents. Nanchang Project has provided free DNA tests to over 350 biological families who are searching for their children, and, to date, has made 55 matches between searching Chinese families and children who were adopted abroad. See our Searching Guide to get started!