Ceremony held for remains of Chinese martyrs in Korean War returned from ROK

A ceremony was held at Taoxian International Airport in northeast China's Shenyang City on Thursday morning to receive and pay tribute to the remains of 43 Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953).

The remains of the fallen soldiers were casketed in Incheon, west of the South Korean capital city of Seoul, and arrived in back in China earlier in the day.

It is the 11th repatriation of CPV martyrs' remains since the signing of a handover agreement between China and South Korea.

Since 2014, the remains of 981 CPV martyrs have been handed over to China, their home country.

Escorted by two J-20 fighter jets of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force, a Y-20 transport aircraft carrying the remains of the martyrs and 495 pieces of belongings of the fallen soldiers landed at the airport at noon.

After the landing of the aircraft, two fire trucks sprayed water along the way to form a water gate, the highest etiquette in the civil aviation industry.

After the relevant preparations on the plane were completed, the guards of honor first escorted the caskets carrying the martyrs' remains off the plane in order, and then to a designated sorting area.

The caskets were carefully cleaned and sorted, all the personnel at the scene sang the Chinese national anthem, and bowed three times to pay tribute to the CPV martyrs. Afterwards, the guards of honor escorted the caskets and the belongings onto military trucks and headed to the Shenyang Cemetery for Martyrs of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.

A burial ceremony for the remains of the CPV martyrs will be held at the cemetery on Friday.

Earlier from 2014 to 2023, South Korea handed over the remains of 938 CPV martyrs, along with their belongings, to China in accordance with international law and humanitarian principles.

The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 18 pips to 6.9025 against the U.S. dollar Friday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.

In China's spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading day.

The central parity rate of the yuan against the U.S. dollar is based on a weighted average of prices offered by market makers before the opening of the interbank market each business day.