导读:之前曾有报道称一名中国老兵被困印度54年，一直渴望回家。新闻报道之后中国政府付出巨大努力，终于让这位老兵回家。
At around 6 pm Saturday, Wang Qi set his feet on his homeland again in Xi’an, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, after spending 54 years in a life drift in India.
周六晚上6点陕西西安，在滞留印度54年之后，老兵王琪再次双脚踏上了祖国这片热土。
"I’m finally home!" a sobbing Wang hugged his tearful brothers and sisters at Xi’an Xianyang International Airport.
在西安咸阳国际机场，王琪拥抱着他们泪流满面的兄弟姐妹们哽咽着说道：“我终于回家了！”
Wang, a Chinese solider, got lost in a forest on the China-India border in 1963. He was rescued by India’s Red Cross Society and later handed over to Indian military. The military sentenced him in jail for seven years after regarding him as an "espionage."
王琪是一名中国军人，1963年在中印边境一座森林里迷了路。印度红十字会救了他，随后将其移交给了印度军方。印度军方认为王琪是“间谍”，于是判他入狱7年。
Wang settled and married in a rural area in India after serving his sentence, but he always wanted to go home. During the past years, Wang sent many letters to his family members in Xuezhainan Village in Shaanxi’s Qianxian County, expressing his homesickness and the desire to go back.
服刑结束之后王琪在印度农村结婚并安家立业，但是他一直想回家。在过去这些年里，王琪给他在陕西乾县薛寨村的家人们写了很多信，表达了自己的思乡之情和回家的渴望。
To help Wang return home, the Chinese embassy in India made every effort to get him an exit permit. In 2013, he received a Chinese passport and financial support from the government, which made it possible for him to return.
为帮助王琪回家，中国驻印度大使馆尽全力为他获得了外出许可证。2013年王琪得到了一份中国护照和政府的财政支持，这使得回家有了可能。
In Wang’s home village, groups of people lined outside the house of Wang’s younger brother Wang Shun on Saturday, which happens to be China’s Lantern Festival, a day that traditionally represents reunion.
周六在王琪的家乡，许多人都聚在王琪弟弟王顺家外，那天正好是元宵节，是阖家团圆的日子。
"After all these years, he is finally coming back," Wang Shun said as he prepared a quilt for Wang Qi. "We bought the furniture in this room many years ago."
弟弟王顺在给王琪准备棉被时说道：“过了这么多年，他终于还是回来了。许多年前我们就给这个屋子里买好了家具。”
"He has not changed much, I can still recognize him," said local villager Wang Ming. "All of us in the village have been waiting for his return, and we are just happy that he made it."
当地村民王明说道：“他变化不大，我还能认出他来。我们村里所有人都在等他回来，我们很高兴他终于还是回来了。”
