Cuban pilots' bonds with China revived after decades

Over the past month, the story of a veteran Cuban pilot, who was trained in China about six decades ago and sought to reconnect with his Chinese instructors, has captured the hearts of many netizens.

The story of gaunt, silver-haired Alberto Alonso Sanjuan, also known as Tito by Chinese netizens, came to light in a video posted in early February by a vlogger who came across him on a street in Trinidad, a small coastal town in Cuba.

In the video, Tito proudly displays a graduation certificate issued by a pilot academy of the People's Liberation Army, notebooks filled with writing in Chinese and Spanish, and a collection of medals.