Story highlights Chinese man who disappeared in alleged abduction as a child was reunited with his father

Sun Bin's mother died "constantly murmuring" his name, father says

Child trafficking is a major business in China

Hong Kong (CNN) A Chinese man has been reunited with his father 24 years after he was abducted as a toddler from a vegetable market.

In 1991, 4-year-old Sun Bin was taken by child traffickers from his hometown in Sichuan province and sold to a family thousands of miles away, in Jiangsu province on the country's eastern coast, Chinese state media reported

Sun Bin when he was four with his father.

On Tuesday, Sun was finally reacquainted with his 60-year-old father, Sun Youhong, and a younger sister he had never met. The moment was captured in a moving series of photographs.

"I was happy. I was grateful," the father said. "But I was also bitter."

Child trafficking is still a major business in China, as traffickers seek to profit off a growing demand for healthy babies from potential adoptive parents in China and elsewhere.

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