In the past, information on a single Jiangxi martyr might be dispersed across archives in several provinces, making verification slow and uncertain. With a shared database along the Long March route, the process can now be sharply shortened. In 2024, Yudu verified the identities of 47 martyrs who died in the Battle of Xiangjiang River through the mechanism.

　　Social media has also helped turn once-improbable searches into possible reunions.

　　After seeing a short video of volunteers searching for the relatives of martyr Yang Yanting, Zhong Baoqing, curator of the Ruijin revolutionary martyrs memorial hall, began reviewing historical documents. He eventually confirmed Yang's hometown and relatives. In September 2025, Yang's nephew came to Ruijin and touched his uncle's name on the martyrs' wall.

　　"My father had always hoped his elder brother would come home," he said.

　　According to incomplete statistics, among the over 100,000 martyrs in Ganzhou City in the province, more than 40,000 have been marked as whereabouts unknown. In March, the city launched a campaign to verify more martyrs' information by establishing a unified database after integrating resources from multiple departments.

　　As this year marks the 90th anniversary of the Long March victory, Jiangxi will step up efforts to verify martyrs' information and help more of them regain their names, family ties and portraits, according to the provincial veterans affairs department.

　　At the end of the martyrs' wall in Yudu's memorial hall, a large blank space remains. An inscription explains that tens of thousands of martyrs are still without verified names, and that the emptiness stands for their sacred memory.

　　Each new nameplate added to the wall and each portrait delivered to a family fills a small part of that blank.■