A recently renovated Chinese Soldiers’ Tomb in Phonsavanh district, Xieng Khuang province was officially handed over on June 7.

Present at the event were Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Baikham Katthiya, Deputy Xieng Khuang Governor Khamsaen Mannivong, a member of the Party Committee of Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs Vang Chiangzhu, and Chinese Ambassador to Laos Zhao Chenggang and other two high-ranking officials of both sides.

Chinese Ambassador to Laos, Mr Zhao, said that the Embassy of China in Laos joined in repair work and placed an inscription on the tomb in 1996 in memory of the brave Chinese soldiers in Xieng Khouang province, after the tomb had been left untouched for 20 years. In 2016, on the auspicious occasion of 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations, the two governments agreed to improve the tomb again.

“As we have seen, the renovated tomb today has been made beautiful again,” Mr Zhao said, adding that the success of the renovation was made possible by the close attention by both countries’ leaders and the enhancement of the existing relations between the two countries.

“We will keep on managing and protecting this tomb and it will become a place of education and research for the younger generation. It will become a worship place and historical tourism site of the Lao and Chinese people and a symbol for enhancing the existing friendly relations and all round strategic cooperation between the two countries,” Ms Baikham said.

From 1960-1970 of the 20th century — the period when the Lao ethnic people fought for independence, many hundreds of Chinese military engineers made a significant contribution to the development of infrastructure and many of them died in Oudomxay province, becoming a symbol of friendship and cooperative relationship between Laos and China.

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