Martyr's widow sheds a tear in sorrow and thanks

Almost 90 years ago, Duan Guixiu's husband made a promise to her that sadly he would never keep when he joined the Red Army in 1932. "Wait for me. I will come back. Listen to mother," Duan recalls Wang Jinchang telling her.

It was a winter's day and Wang, now 99 and the only surviving wife of a Long March martyr in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, stood by as he took off his civilian clothes and changed into his uniform. He asked her to take his clothes back home and left. It was the last time she saw her husband.

Duan was adopted as a future wife for Wang and came to her husband's family in Chexi township, Yudu county, Jiangxi province, shortly after she was born.