The remains of 20 Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War were returned to China from the Republic of Korea (ROK) Wednesday.
Two Chinese fighter jets escorted a plane carrying the remains and the belongings of the fallen soldiers. They landed at an airport in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, at around 11:20 a.m.
A ceremony was held at the airport to welcome back the remains.
More than 200 representatives from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Liaoning provincial government and the military attended the ceremony.
The remains will be buried in a “martyrs’ park” in Shenyang, where the remains of 569 soldiers were sent back from the ROK between 2014 and 2017.
The Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV) fought side by side with the army of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the Korean War against the South Korean army and U.S.-led UN forces.
Tens of thousands of CPV soldiers died on the Korean Peninsula during the war, which ended in 1953.
