The remains of 800 heroes returned to China.

1937 during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, some survivors of "eight hundred heroes" who participated in the "fourth-line warehouse defense war" were sent to Papua New Guinea (Papua New Guinea) by the Japanese army to work as laborers. Among them, 10 was buried in a foreign land with more than 600 other Japanese soldiers.

On March 17, 2009, the Foundation for Harmonious Development across the Taiwan Straits officially launched the activity of "Welcome the Remains of Anti-Japanese Heroes to Return to China" in Beijing. It is planned to send an advance team to Papua New Guinea for inspection, and strive to complete the identification of the remains of anti-Japanese soldiers living in the local area during the year, take their heroes back to the motherland and hold a burial ceremony in China, so that these heroes who died for the country can find their roots as soon as possible.

Liang Chunyuan, deputy editor-in-chief of Sohu, member of the preparatory group for welcoming the remains of anti-Japanese soldiers back to China. It is said that if the activity is successful, the remains of anti-Japanese heroes can be welcomed back to China for burial in July 2009.

The activity of "Welcome the Remains of the Anti-Japanese Heroes to Return to China" is due to a netizen's post.

On June 23, 2008, 65438+February 23, 2008, netizens in Sohu Community of Tianzhu Road posted a post entitled "No one cares about the remains of 800 overseas heroes who defended the Shanghai Sixiang Warehouse". The post said that Chinese in Papua New Guinea found hundreds of cemeteries of China's anti-Japanese war soldiers on a remote hillside near Rabur, including 65438+65438 in 0937. They were captured by the Japanese in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and then sent to a Japanese concentration camp in Papua New Guinea to be killed. These cemeteries were built after the victory of 1945 Anti-Japanese War, and were built by local overseas Chinese and China prisoners of war liberated by the allied forces, all comrades who died in concentration camps. More than 60 years later, due to the frequent eruption of local volcanoes, local overseas Chinese have moved to other places, resulting in the loss of protection of the cemeteries of these anti-Japanese soldiers in China, which have been in disrepair for a long time and have been seriously damaged.