The Transfer of People's Volunteer Army soldiers' remains from South Korea to China (Chinese: 在韩中国人民志愿军烈士遗骸回国; Korean: 중국군 유해 송환/中國軍遺骸送還) is the ongoing handover of remains of personnel of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army after the ceasefire of the Korean War.
[1] In 1954, after the Korean War ceasefire, the United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission (UNCMAC) established a temporary department called The Committee of Registration of Cemetery.
[2] In 1973, the Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Il Sung built eight cemeteries for the Chinese People's Volunteer Army in Hoechang County, South Pyongan Province.
[4][5][6] In 1991, North Korea and China withdrew their representation in UNCMAC, and the search for remains of was discontinued.
[4][6] Any remains found later were buried in a Chinese army cemetery at Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
[9] After the Chinese Air Force's special planes entered China's airspace, two J-11s came to escort.
[17] The remains were exhumed between March 2015 and November 2015 in Yeoncheon and Tiewon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
[18] On 31 March, a Chinese Il76 transport aircraft, escorted by two J-11 fighter jets, arrived at Shenyang, carrying coffins that contained thirty-six remains of soldiers.
[18] On 27 February 2017, South Korean and Chinese working groups completed talks about the transfer of a fourth set of remains.
[14][20] On 22 March 2017, the remains were handed over at Incheon Airport;[21] Chinese Vice Minister of Civil Affairs Sun Shaocheng attended the handover ceremony.
On 6 March, the work team of the Ministry of National Defense of South Korea confirmed that ten of the fifteen remains of Korean War victims excavated in Inje, Hoengseong, Hongcheon, Yeoncheon and other places from 2017 to 2018 belonged to Chinese soldiers.