China settled aftermath affairs for nearly 7,000 martyrs during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), determining their burial sites or locating their lost relatives, said Pei Jinjia, Minister of Veterans Affairs, at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday.
"In recent years, we have formulated and issued a number of policy documents on searching for, excavating, identifying, and protecting fallen martyrs' remains, or locating their families. Meanwhile, we have founded the National Martyrs' Remains Search and Identification Center, set up the National Team for Martyrs' Remains Searching and the National DNA Identification Laboratory for Martyrs' Remains, actively promoting the search for martyrs' remains and carrying out their remains' DNA data collection and identification," said the minister.
"To date, we have collected DNA data from the remains of 981 soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers repatriated from South Korea, and from over 1,300 relatives of these martyrs, established a refined and dynamic database, launched a government service platform for locating martyrs' families, and guided and encouraged social forces to participate in the search work in a legal and orderly manner. So far, we have determined burial sites or found relatives for nearly 7,000 martyrs," he said.
7,000 martyrs' aftermath affairs settled in five years: minister
China has remained the world's largest online retail market for a 13th consecutive year, with its digital consumption exceeding 23.8 trillion yuan (about 3.39 trillion U.S. dollars), official data shows.
The figure was released at a national e-commerce work conference held from Tuesday to Wednesday.
The conference said that China's e-commerce sector has achieved solid gains in high-quality development over the past five years, emerging as a new source of momentum to foster new quality productive forces and playing an important role in advancing the country's new development paradigm.
Despite rising external uncertainties, China has continued to expand its win-win cooperation, increasing the number of Silk Road e-commerce cooperation partner countries to 36.
E-commerce has become a major engine for job creation and industrial upgrading. Employment in the sector has surpassed 78 million, and express delivery volumes have seen an average annual growth of nearly 20 percent over the past five years.
Software and information services linked to cloud computing and big data have also expanded rapidly.
The conference outlined the Ministry of Commerce's e-commerce policy priorities for 2026, including strengthening innovation-driven growth, improving the country's development environment, and expanding international cooperation.
China remains world's largest online retail market for 13th straight year
