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Jing Gaofeng, a 36-year-old woman now living in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, found out some worrying information in 2017 - someone had stolen her identity and had been impersonating her for 20 years. The impersonator was her classmate from junior high school, who stole her student files and lived as Jing for decades.
But it came too late, as life had changed forever for her since the summer of 1998.
Jing, who was 16-year-old then, took the technical school entrance examination in her hometown Sanyuan County with hopes of working as a kindergarten teacher after graduating.
Photo via Shaanxi City News.
She was quite shocked when she was told that she had failed the exam, but wasn't told what she had scored. What’s even stranger was her student files went missing at the same time, the point when they were stolen by her junior high schoolmate Li Min.
Jing told Shaanxi City News, she became depressed for a while after the blow. After another year of preparation, she barely passed the test and went to study at a high school. She lost confidence in her study and only went on to junior college afterward.
Photo via Shaanxi City News
When she believed she had let go of all of this, the silence was broken in 2017 when a friend of her father told him that he met Jing in a local kindergarten.
“My dad told his friend that it was impossible as I had left my hometown and now lived in Xi’an,” Jing said. “Besides, my surname is not a common one, so is my given name, which has a very special meaning. So it could not just be a coincidence.”
Photo via Shaanxi City News
It turned out that her schoolmate Li Min, who did not perform well during junior high school, somehow managed to obtain Jing’s identity and went to her ideal school. She even stole Jing’s dream and worked as a kindergarten teacher after she graduated.
When Jing went to find out how this happened, she learned that Li had been working at the local education bureau for three years. She said during their meeting that she wanted to settle the dispute with some money put toward her pension, but Jing declined it.
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After Jing exposed the issue to the public via media, the local education bureau announced on China's Twitter-like Weibo that they had suspended all Li's work and set up a special team to look into the case last Saturday.
According to the local authorities, Li resigned later and the case was under further investigation.
Screenshot from the Weibo account of local education bureau
Jing told China News, “Now I want to find out how she got my files and lived under my identity for the past 20 years.” And she also hopes she will get justice from the terrible ordeal.
(CGTN)
