We’re Heading to Guangxi!

Nanchang Project Winter 2025-26 Trip

 
 
 
 

Participate in our Guangxi Search! Itinerary Announced!

The Nanchang Project is returning to China this winter for a special search trip in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. We will search on behalf of Guangxi adoptees to reconnect them with their birth families. During our 2024 Search Trip to Hunan, we traveled with two Hunan Adoptee Ambassadors (one of whom reunited with her birth family), visited 5 cities, distributed 3,000+ search posters for over 250 Hunan adoptees, and conducted DNA tests on more than 25 birth families. Collectively, our Hunan search trip videos amassed over 5.5 million views on Chinese social media. Our searches in China are not just trips; they serve as vital educational outreach opportunities to inform the everyday Chinese citizen that nearly 160,000 children from China were adopted abroad and wish to reconnect with their roots. As we lay the foundation for future search efforts in the areas we visit, we hope that more and more birth families will bravely come forward to recognize their long-separated children. Reunion is possible when both sides are searching for it!

This year, we have selected four Guangxi Adoptee Ambassadors from different cities to accompany The Nanchang Project team. Each Ambassador will join us for a 3-4 day search in the area where they were found and help us locate birth families for the hundreds of other Guangxi adoptees who could not travel. The trip is scheduled for 2 weeks within December 2025 - January 2026. We are creating group search posters to distribute in person—join now!

 

Join Guangxi Search Posters:

As we did for last year's Hunan trip, we have opened sign-ups for two types of posters for our Guangxi search trip. Adoptees from anywhere in Guangxi of any age may register their information for our Poster #1: Guangxi-wide Posters ($30 USD minimum contribution), which we will share online and have physical copies of on hand during our search. If our finalized itinerary includes a stop in the city you were reportedly found in, you will have the option to be included on our Poster #2: City-specific Posters ($50 USD minimum contribution, includes features on Posters #1 and 2)—of which hundreds of copies will be dispersed to locals in person. See info graphics below for additional details and benefits. Adoptees who join our flyers will have the opportunity to become a member of a private group chat only for Guangxi participants—where we share more frequent in-China updates as they happen throughout the search!

We will be searching in the areas of Yulin, Wuzhou, and Guigang, so adoptees from these places can join Poster #2: City-specific:

  • Yulin City includes: Beiliu City, Rong County, Xingye County, Bobai County, Luchuan County, Yuzhou District, Fumian District

  • Wuzhou City includes: Cenxi City, Cangwu County, Teng County, Mengshan County, Changzhou District, Wanxiu District, Longxu District

    • (NEW!!!!) Cenxi City - We are making a Cenxi-specific flyer, which will be distributed in person to locals in Cenxi.

  • Guigang City includes: Guiping City, Pingnan County, Gangbei District, Gangnan District, Qintang District

NOTE: Many children were sent to orphanages in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi, for their adoption. If you were adopted from Nanning, it is in your best interest to check your abandonment/adoption documents to verify if you were actually “found” in Nanning or originated outside of this major city. Trip and group poster arrangements are made based on where adoptees are reportedly FOUND, not adopted from.

 
 

What You Need:

1. Please have clear copies/images of the following ready to attach with the Form:

  • Earliest photo(s) of adoptee

  • Current photo of adoptee

  • Family photo (optional)

  • Certificate of abandonment* (in a white notarial booklet, we want the Chinese AND English/translated copies)

  • Certificate of birth* (optional)

  • Certificate of adoption* (either the white booklet or adoption registration in "red book," optional)

  • Birth note (optional)

  • Prior birth family search report (optional, but highly desired and very useful for our planning)

Examples of what the certificates of abandonment, birth, and registration look like in the white notarial booklets.

2. Submit your participation contribution/fee at the time of registering:

  • Poster #1 Guangxi-wide: $30 USD minimum contribution

    • For adoptees from any area of Guangxi

  • Poster #2 City-specific: $50 USD minimum contribution

    • For adoptees from the Yulin, Wuzhou, and Guigang areas

Register now for our group posters; final deadline is October 15, 2025.

Register for Posters

The information submitted with this Form will strictly be used for planning, searching, and matching purposes as pertaining to Nanchang Project's efforts in family reunion for Chinese adoptees. We understand your information is sensitive and we will treat it with genuine care, as if it were our own. Only Nanchang Project official volunteers (Chinese adoptees and adoptive parents) on the Guangxi Search Trip planning committee will have access to your submitted information.

Funding & Trip Costs:

Our work is made possible entirely through individual contributions, with donations primarily coming from Chinese adoptees and their families. For this trip, we will have three Nanchang Project team members traveling, as well as hiring two local Search Partners to assist with guiding and translating during the search process. At this time, we are planning to have a Chinese social media influencer accompany us too. He helped us last year in Hunan and is planning to travel again with us to help Guangxi adoptees. Please note, his schedule may change, but as of right now, he is planning to attend. The cumulative costs for our 2024 Hunan search trip were approximately $10,000 USD, and we expect the expenses for our upcoming Guangxi trip to be higher due to additional persons participating this year (Team Leaders, Adoptee Ambassadors, social media influencer—note that Ambassadors are required to pay participation fees to cover their portion of the trip). We will again offer a free DNA test to ANY birth family located during and after this search trip.

To help offset the costs of this search and logistics, we will be requiring contributions from Guangxi participants and hosting several fundraisers in the coming months. Thank you so much for your consideration and support! We can accept donations through these methods:

  1. Zelle - Send to hello@nanchangproject.com (Zelle does not charge us any fees to receive your contribution)

  2. Venmo - Send to @NanchangProject (Venmo charges us the lowest fees after Zelle)

  3. PayPal - paypal.me/nanchangproject

  4. Our Facebook page "The Nanchang Project" - Click the “Donate” button when signed in to your account

  5. Our Instagram @nanchangproject - Click the “Support us” button > “Donate” when signed in to your account

Of course, we also welcome donations in any amount from anyone who admires our work and wishes to support us. We are also in need of donations year round to purchase DNA tests for birth families across China.

For questions related to our upcoming Guangxi trip or about your participation in our group posters, please direct your emails to hello@nanchangproject.com.

 
 
 

NCPT Background

The Nanchang Project (NCPT) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2018, fully operated by volunteers. Our mission is to help connect adoptees to their roots in China. To date, we have assisted in 100+ reunions and registered over 600 birth families. We are proudly also the only organization of its kind that is co-led by Chinese adoptees and adoptive parents, with the intent to be fully run by adult adoptees in the future.

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