Bei Bei discharged from hospital January 8, 2010. His parents presented  bounquets of flowers to the doctors and nurses of Jiujiang Hospital for Women and Children. 

January 12, Bru Direct - A two-year-old boy survived 29 hours in freezing conditions without food after getting lost in a snowstorm.

Bei Bei was eventually found in a field more than a mile from his home in Jiujiang, eastern China's Jiangxi province.

His mother, Rao, said she called police after her son went missing at 10am, reports the Information Daily.

"I left him in the sitting room, while I was in the yard washing clothes, but when I came back 10 minutes later, he was not there," she said.

Police organised a search and were joined by more than 200 neighbours in their efforts to find the little boy.

"The heavy snow from noon that day brought us a lot of difficulties," admitted a police spokesman. "We suspected the boy had either been kidnapped or had just walked out and got lost."

But there was no sign of Bei Bei until afternoon the next day when one of the volunteers spotted "something dark in the snow" and found the boy.

Bei Bei was soaking wet and his whole body was stiff from the cold, with only his eyes moving.

But, after two days in hospital, he is out of danger and is expected to go on to make a full recovery.

"Usually it's impossible for a two-year-old to survive the coldness outside for 29 hours, and without any food. It's a miracle," said a doctor in the hospital.