Shenyang, 11 Nov (ZXS) -- The remains of the 24 th batch of martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers in South Korea are buried in Shenyang

China News Service reporter Li Chun Gong Xu

"Spirit!" In the trumpet sound of "Song of Remembrance", the salute soldiers carried the coffin covered with the five-star red flag around the field for half a week, and walked slowly and solemnly into the underground palace of the cemetery. The 25 martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers returned to their roots and rested in peace on the land of the motherland.

On the morning of 24 July, the burial ceremony of the remains of the <>th batch of martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers in South Korea was held at the Martyrs' Cemetery to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Shenyang. The sunken memorial square is surrounded by pine trees and green forests, and the yellow and white chrysanthemums are placed under the circular martyr's wall.

After the snow, the temperature in Shenyang dropped to minus 11 degrees Celsius during the day. "It's cold, but it's hot in my heart." Zheng Jilie, 74, told reporters that his father was a volunteer martyr. "Without them (the volunteers) there would be no happy life today", said the old man.

"Welcome to the coffin!" At 10 o'clock in the morning, the burial ceremony began, and more than <> soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Honor Guard Ceremony Brigade lined up on both sides of Yongdao with guns to escort them. A team of salute soldiers carried the coffins of the remains of the martyrs of the volunteers into the memorial square and parked in front of the "Heroes Like a Mountain" theme sculpture. The heroes of the volunteers who are buried here are the solid backers of the Chinese nation and have defended the peace and tranquility of the republic.

Subsequently, the audience sang the national anthem of the People's Republic of China. Pei Jinjia, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of China, delivered a memorial message. All the personnel bowed to the martyrs of the Volunteer Army. The 27 officers and men of the unit fired 12 shots to salute the martyrs.

"This is the fifth time I have participated in the burial ceremony for the remains of the martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers in Korea, and I am deeply touched by every close encounter with the martyrs." Wang Jiachen from the Army of the Northern Theater of the People's Liberation Army said that it was not only the remains of the martyrs of the volunteers who were being brought back, but also their spirit of sacrifice, dedication, and heroic tenacity. "As a soldier, you must work harder in peacetime training, shoulder the responsibilities and missions of our generation, and guard the peace of the motherland and the peace of the people."

On November 11, the burial ceremony of the remains of the 24th batch of martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers in South Korea was held in the Shenyang Martyrs' Cemetery to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and 25 volunteers who died in a foreign country were laid to rest on the land of the motherland after more than 70 years. The picture shows the ceremonial soldiers escorting the coffins of the martyrs of the Volunteer Army to the burial palace. Photo by China News Service reporter Yu Haiyang

When the last salute soldier entered the underground palace with a coffin in his hand, the number of volunteers buried in the Shenyang Martyrs Cemetery to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea reached 938. For ten consecutive years, China has brought back the remains of volunteer martyrs from South Korea and buried them there.

After the remains of the martyrs were buried in the underground palace, more than 300 representatives from all walks of life who participated in the ceremony lined up in a long line and went around the square to pay respects to the martyrs' wall. The 3-meter-high black gold sand granite wall is engraved with the names of 174407 volunteer martyrs, including the elder brother of Lang Qingxia.

"Looking at the remains of these martyrs who returned home, although there is no brother of mine, they are all comrades-in-arms of my brother, brothers who fought side by side, just like my relatives." Lang Qingxia, who came to the ceremony site today, said that only when the country is strong, the remains of these martyrs who have been adrift in a foreign land for more than 70 years can return to the embrace of the motherland.

Xi Yufeng, deputy director of the Martyrs' Memorial Facilities Protection Center (Martyrs' Remains Search and Identification Center) of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of China, said in an interview a few days ago that the DNA information of the remains of the 10th batch of Chinese Volunteers in South Korea will be extracted and included in the database as soon as possible in accordance with the established work arrangements, and the work of mapping the relatives of martyrs and collecting DNA information will be carried out in a safe manner. At the same time, do a good job of sorting out the relics of the martyrs who have been welcomed.

Lang Qingxia also said that she hopes to see her brother's remains return to her hometown Shenyang in her lifetime, "I have no regrets in my life."

The Shenyang Martyrs' Cemetery was founded in 1951. The Martyrs' Memorial Square in the cemetery was built in 2014, and the remains of the martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers welcomed back from South Korea are buried in the underground palace. After the burial ceremony on the 24th, many Shenyang citizens spontaneously came to the cemetery to offer flowers to the monument, the martyrs' tombs, and the famous wall to pay tribute to the martyrs' loyal souls.

92-year-old Li Weibo walked into the cemetery with the support of his daughter. The old man was dressed in a volunteer uniform, with military medals on his chest and a bag of hot dumplings in his hand.

Li Weibo, a former anti-aircraft artillery soldier of the Volunteer Army, recalled that on the Korean battlefield in those years, the soldiers made dumplings for the New Year, and as soon as they were sent to the cooking class, the enemy's plane came. "We hit the cannon as soon as we hit it, and when we came back after the fight, the dumplings were all made into soup." On the 24th, he deliberately got up at 6 o'clock in the morning to make dumplings, wanting to bring a "taste" to his comrades-in-arms who went home.

In the memorial square, the old man seemed to call out to his former comrades-in-arms, "I brought you dumplings to eat", and then saluted a standard military salute to the martyrs' wall of fame. (ENDS)