We’re Heading to Jiangxi!

An Opportunity to Spread Awareness & Find Birth Families

Nanchang Project is returning to China in Spring 2027 for a special search trip in Jiangxi Province. We will search on behalf of Jiangxi adoptees to reconnect them with their birth families. During our 2025-26 Winter Search Trip to Guangxi, we traveled with three Guangxi Adoptee Ambassadors, visited 5 cities, distributed 5,400+ search posters for 174 Guangxi adoptees, and conducted DNA tests on 30 birth families. Collectively, our Guangxi search trip videos amassed over 18 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 three Jiangxi Adoptee Ambassadors from different cities to accompany Nanchang Project’s search team. Each Ambassador will join us for a 3.5 day search in the area where they were found and help us locate birth families for the hundreds of other Jiangxi adoptees who could not travel. The trip is scheduled for 2 weeks during March 2027.

Join Jiangxi Search Posters:

As we did for previous search trips, we will create two types of posters for our Jiangxi search trip. Adoptees from anywhere in Jiangxi of any age may register their information for our Jiangxi-wide Posters, 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 City-specific Posters—of which 1,000+ 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 Jiangxi participants—where we share more frequent in-China updates as they happen throughout the search! Poster participants based in North America also have a bonus perk of mailing DNA samples for 23mofang and the National Reunion/Police Database (NRPD) to NCPT trip leaders who can take their samples with them to China in March and send them to their final destination within China.

Poster registration deadline is January 17, 2027!

NOTE: Many children were sent to the orphanage in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province, for their adoption. If you were adopted from Nanchang, it is in your best interest to check your abandonment/adoption documents to verify if you were actually “found” in Nanchang or originated outside of this major city. Trip and group poster arrangements are made based on where adoptees are reportedly FOUND, not adopted from. We will not be searching on-the-ground in Nanchang this trip.

Poster Sign-ups end January 17th.

Please have clear copies/images of the following ready to attach with this 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 adoption* (either the white booklet or adoption registration in "red book," optional)

• Birth note (optional)

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

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 Jiangxi Search Trip planning committee will have access to your submitted information.

DNA Mailing Support (North America Only):

New this trip! All North American Jiangxi poster participants will be eligible for our China DNA testing mailing support. Our volunteers will assist you in registering for China’s National Reunion Database (NRPD) and/or 23mofang, collecting your blood sample, bringing it to China, and mailing it to the appropriate lab on your behalf.

This is an alternative option to mailing your blood samples to China directly. Because our Trip Leaders are based in the U.S., for logistical efficiency, we can only receive DNA samples from adoptees mailing from North America.

Submit the 2027 Jiangxi Poster DNA Mailing Support Form. Once our team reviews your Form request for DNA mailing support, you will be emailed specific steps and instructions to follow for the NRPD and/or 23mofang.

NOTE: Adoptees NOT in North America can still receive our registration assistance for these two databases, but must follow the instructions on our 23mofang guide and National Reunion/Police Database (NRPD) Assistance Program registration to mail their DNA samples to China or give to a traveling friend.

Your DNA samples and documents must be postmarked and mailed by February 10, 2027, to your assigned Trip Leader volunteer.
We cannot accept late submissions.

Info Session Recording & Slides:

Curious to know more? We held a comprehensive information session on July 12th that covers the details of the Adoptee Ambassador program, what the Jiangxi search trip looks like, search posters, and a Q&A. If interested in learning more about this trip, watch the recording or view the presentation slides.

Our 2025-25 Guangxi Adoptee Ambassador, Elizabeth Williams, reflected on her search trip experience in a blog post here.

NCPT Background

Nanchang Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2018, fully operated by volunteers. Our mission is to help re-connect adoptees with their roots in China. To date, we have assisted in over 180 reunions and registered 800+ birth families. Our team consists of volunteers across 6 countries. We are proudly also the only organization of its kind that is co-led by both Chinese adoptees and adoptive parents.

Follow along on our trip!

Follow us on social media for our latest updates and join our private group for supporters:

• Instagram: @nanchangproject

• Facebook page: The Nanchang Project

• Supporters group on Facebook: Nanchang Project Goes to China

• General search group on Facebook: Origins Searches by Nanchang Project - Chinese Birth Family Search Group