China hands over remains of U.S. airmen found along WWII Hump Route

The Chinese and U.S. militaries held a ceremony in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Tuesday to hand over another group of the remains of U.S. airmen who aided China's resistance against Japanese aggression during World War II, according to China's Ministry of National Defense.

The remains were recovered in areas along the Hump Route, a vital air corridor over the Himalayas that became a wartime lifeline for China. From 1942 to 1945, the route served as a key channel for Allied supplies to support China's resistance against Japanese aggression.

The handover ceremony was held at the Jianchuan Museum in Chengdu and attended by military representatives from China and the US. Attendees included Chinese officials and diplomats from the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Sichuan and Chengdu governments, as well as representatives from the US military and the US Embassy in China.

The Chinese Ministry of National Defense said the handover is a vivid testament to the history of China and the United States fighting side by side against Japanese fascism during WWII.

Over the years, China has consistently assisted the U.S. in searching for and recovering the remains of its missing personnel in the spirit of humanitarianism, the ministry said.

China is willing to continue practical cooperation with the U.S. in this field and make positive contributions to building a constructive relationship of strategic stability between the two countries, it added.

China hands over remains of U.S. airmen found along WWII Hump Route

China hands over remains of U.S. airmen found along WWII Hump Route

A compilation of discourses by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on poverty reduction and alleviation has been published by the Central Party Literature Press and released nationwide.

Compiled by the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee, the book brings together 55 important articles by Xi on poverty reduction and alleviation. Some of these works are made public for the first time.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, the CPC Central Committee with Xi at its core has placed poverty alleviation high on its governance agenda and regarded it as the bottom line task in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.

China has won a complete victory in the fight against poverty and accomplished the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty, creating a miracle in the human history of poverty reduction. In the process, the country has blazed a poverty reduction path and formed an anti-poverty theory with Chinese characteristics.

Xi's discourses on poverty reduction and alleviation represent an important theoretical achievement in China's poverty alleviation efforts and the latest achievement in adapting Marxist anti-poverty theory to the Chinese context.

These discourses provide important guidance for consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation and advancing rural revitalization across the board, promoting modernization that delivers common prosperity for all, and building a better world free from poverty and featuring shared prosperity.

Book of Xi's discourses on poverty reduction, alleviation published