Touching images show an elderly Chinese couple recreate their wedding photos at the place where they were married 70 years ago

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They say true love stands the test of time, and nowhere is this more fitting than in the story of this elderly couple who recreated their wedding photos from 1945.

Cao Yuehua and wife Wang Deyi, dubbed ‘the most romantic couple in China’, returned to the Northern Hot Springs Park in southwest China’s Chongqing city this week to stage the commemorative photoshoot and ceremony, 70 years after their special day.

The stirring story of the 98-year-old lovers - who stayed together through the decades despite being kept apart during World War II - has melted the hearts of people across the nation.

Cao Yuehua and wife Wang Deyi dress as newlyweds to recreate their wedding-day photos from 1945

The devoted lovers returned to the Northern Hot Springs Park in Chongqing city this week to hold the commemorative photoshoot

The couple have been together for 70 years despite being kept apart during World War II, when they enlisting against the Japanese invasion

Originally from Shanghai, the couple fled to Chongqing when the war broke out, with both of them enlisting to defend against the ensuing Japanese invasion.

Cao, a translator, was sent to the China-Burma-India Theater – a vital frontline during WWII - where he could only communicate with his then-girlfriend Wang through a series of love letters.

After the war, Cao immediately returned to Chongqing to marry Wang - an amateur poet fluent in three languages - and the pair have been living happily ever since.

Friends and family flocked to the ceremony this week, which is not the first time the couple have returned to the spot - they held a similar ceremony for sixtieth anniversary.

At the end of the ceremony, Cao reportedly turned to Wang and vowed to return to the same spot for photos and again when they both turn 100.

After the celebration, Wang told local media his wife is never far from his thoughts, reports Asia One: ‘couples need to care for each other. I think of her at anytime, and so does she.'

When the war broke out Cao (left) could only communicate with his then-girlfriend Wang (right) through a series of love letters

Friends and family flocked to the ceremony this week to watch a slideshow of images of the couple and the newly recreated shots 

At the end of the ceremony, Cao turned to Wang and vowed to return to the same spot for photos and again when they both turn 100

It is not the first time the couple have returned to the special spot they were married, having held a similar ceremony for their sixtieth anniversary.

The doting pair look over old photographs of their 70-year-long marriage which spanned through war and peace

After the war, Cao immediately returned to Chongqing to marry Wang, and the pair have been living happily ever since