The Day the Martyrs' Synchronized Requiem Echoed

State media editors maintained synchronized coverage of Qingming Festival commemorations for revolutionary martyrs throughout the day, with identical reports appearing across People's Daily CN, CCTV, China Daily CN, BJD, Huanqiu, Xinhua CN, CE, and GMW. This continued the previous days' focus on memorialization, shifting specifically to repeated reports on "they never left, just turned into mountains and rivers" by early afternoon and intensifying with coordinated publication of "Xi Jinping's heroic stories" narratives across multiple outlets. Meanwhile, external Chinese-language outlets prioritized international military developments, with DW Chinese and BBC Chinese reporting on the downing of a U.S. fighter jet over Iran and Trump's ultimatum, while SCMP analyzed China's underwater drone technology and efforts to lure AI professionals from abroad.