Debt honoured: China repays family who lent entire 850-kg grain supply to wartime army in 1947

A wartime grain loan certificate discovered within an old family home in eastern China has been donated to local authorities nearly eight decades later, illuminating a villager’s remarkable faith in the troops.
In 1947, a major People’s Liberation Army (PLA) unit entered the Dabie Mountains, which stretch across the borders of three provinces in central China, during a counteroffensive against Kuomintang forces.

The harsh conditions on the battlefield had left the troops desperately short of...