This group is for families who are in the process of or who have already adopted from the Huai'An Social Welfare Institute in Jiangsu Province, China.

Jiangsu
"Jiang" = "large river" ... "Su" = "revive from unconciousness"
There were two provincial governments in the ancient State of Wu.One was called Jiang Ning and the other was Su Zhou. The name of this province was derived from the first word of the names of those two ancient provinces.
Jiangsu thus means "large river revived from unconsciousness"

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