Wang Aifu (middle) stands with relatives of a martyr in Hunan province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
In that year, several media outlets reported Wang's story and published information about the martyrs. From then on, relatives began to contact him.
Then some volunteers in Taiyuan, Shanxi and Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei province, joined Wang to help him check information.