Wang Zi, Pilot Wang Wei's six-year-old son, does not yet know that his father is missing after an air-collision with a US spy plane.
"I want to see my father!" the child shouted to his grandpa and grandma.
Wang Zi is staying in a kindergarten in Huzhou, hometown of Wang Wei and thousands of miles away from Hainan, where his father was serving in the air force. Wang Zi meets his grandpa and grandma once a week.
On Saturday morning, when the son got home, he saw birthday cakes people had sent to his father.
"Do you miss your father?" a kindergarten teacher asked the boy.
"I miss him very much!"
The teacher told Wang Zi that his father has gone far away and could not celebrate his birthday at home.
"Would you like to perform something for your father's birthday? " the teacher suggested.
The son said^He recited a poem by Meng Haoran, a famous Tang Dynasty poet. The poem describes a vivid scene in which birds sing happily in spring.
But the atmosphere for the birthday party is gloomy.
Wang Ming, the grandpa, told Xinhua that they have kept the incident a secret from Wang Zi fearing that he is too young to bear the heartbreak.
"The Americans are people very fond of commenting on human rights. Now, let's see how they will deal with my son's problem," he said.
Meanwhile, Chinese throughout the country are continuing to condemn the US for its hegemonistic acts.
In the cities of Tianjin, Zhengzhou and Jinan, law experts, county officials, students and scholars have all accused the US government of lacking basic humanitarianism.
(Xinhua 04/07/2001)
