Archives confirm war hero's death details

The Heilongjiang Provincial Archives released a historical document on Wednesday that confirms the exact time and place of General Yang Jingyu's death in 1940, Xinhua News Agency reported.

According to the document, Yang died at 4:30 pm on Feb 23,1940, at an altitude of 490 meters, about 5 kilometers southwest of what was then Mengjiang county in Jilin province, now known as Jingyu county.

Yang, born Ma Shangde, was a national hero who led the First Route of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army during the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).