Feature: WWI's unsung Chinese heroes commemorated with statue in Belgium, 100 years later

Photo taken on Nov. 15, 2017 shows the introduction board written in Chinese, Dutch and French laid near the bronze statue honoring Chinese laborers working for the Allied Forces during World War I, in Busseboom Village of Poperinge City, west Belgium. The statue standing 3 meters was erected on Wednesday for 13 Chinese laborers who were killed in a German bombardment against the village Nov. 15, 1917. In the last two years of WWI, some 140,000 Chinese laborers were recruited mainly by Britain and France to Europe, providing logistic services to the Allied Forces, who at that time were suffering severe manpower shortage. (Xinhua/Ye Pingfan)