Before I answer another question, I need a volunteer to help me with this one.
I would like to know how the heck you found anyone on QQ. I can’t seem to figure it out. I also can’t seem to find anyone in my daughter’s town when I do an internet search. How the heck did you start?
Someone give me a town or city in China so I can show you how I would find someone on QQ. Probably this won’t work in a small village, but I could do a nearby bigger town. If it isn’t an obvious location, it would help to have the characters for the name. I am only going to do this for one location, so the first commenter is the one I will try. This will be published on the blog, so don’t offer a location if you are super concerned about privacy.
No promises I will be very successful. I am quite experienced in my daughter’s finding area, but I don’t know how well it will work elsewhere. Also, I am not actually going to track down random people’s QQ numbers and publish them here, I will just show you how to find people in general.
If no one volunteers, I will just pick a random location myself.

Huining, Gansu
I just searched for people who went to high school in Huining on renren, found a ton of profiles. Renren might also be a useful way to find contacts, if anyone is interested.
Liangping, a village north of Chongqing
Zhangye, Gansu
Gansu represent!
Xinyu, Jiangxi. I’ve tried on QQ and can’t figure it out either!
This was my question; can’t wait to se how you start. Thank you!