BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) — China on Friday commemorated the 86th anniversary of the start of China’s whole-nation resistance warfare towards Japanese aggression.
On July 7, 1937, Japanese troopers attacked Chinese forces on the Lugou Bridge in Beijing. The incident is acknowledged as the beginning of Japan’s full-scale invasion of China and China’s whole-nation resistance towards the Japanese invaders.
A commemorative ceremony was held on Friday morning on the Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which is positioned close to the Lugou Bridge.
About 500 folks, together with veterans’ representatives and relations of army leaders and martyrs within the warfare, attended the ceremony. During the occasion, college students recited patriotic poems and sang revolutionary songs, expressing the unwavering dedication of as we speak’s Chinese youth to make unremitting efforts for the nice rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Attendees additionally supplied floral tributes and paid their respects to those that laid down their lives in preventing the Japanese aggression.
An exhibition showcasing the event of the Communist Party of China in the course of the warfare was held within the museum. Zhang Ruiqi, a pupil from Capital Medical University, mentioned that it’s significantly memorable to go to the museum on this special occasion.
“The content of today’s exhibition is well-organized and profound, which made me realize that the victory of the resistance war against Japanese aggression was really hard-won,” mentioned Zhang.
Memorial actions honoring the event have been additionally held in different components of China.
On Friday morning, folks from varied walks of life visited a cemetery in Handan City, Hebei Province, the place over 200 revolutionary martyrs have been buried, together with famend fallen heroes in the course of the resistance warfare towards Japanese aggression.
Visitors listened to the martyrs’ heroic deeds of their revolutionary trigger, visited a memorial corridor and laid flowers on their graves.
As a nationwide patriotism training base, the cemetery has seen greater than 6,000 folks come to pay their respects to the martyrs since mid-June, mentioned Yang Junling, Party chief of the cemetery.
“During today’s visit, I’ve gained a deeper understanding of the fact that our happy life today did not come easily,” mentioned Zhang Xuanpu, an elementary college pupil.
“I will work hard to cultivate my character and skills, and when I grow up I will serve my motherland like the revolutionary forefathers,” he added.
In northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, a brand new batch of proof revealing extra particulars of the Japanese invasion of China has been collected from Japan, the Exhibition Hall of Evidence of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin introduced on Friday.
The historic supplies embrace 38 postcards printed with lyrics of a Japanese militaristic music, with their backgrounds displaying photographs or drawings of battlefield scenes, Chinese troopers, civilians, native circumstances and customs, amongst different content material.
The music, created in 1932 and sung by the invading Japanese military in China, was a product of Japanese militarism and an vital software to propagate militarism, mentioned Jin Shicheng, a researcher on the exhibition corridor.
The exhibition corridor and the federal government of Mulan County of Heilongjiang, which despatched representatives to Japan to gather the supplies, additionally noticed 18 photographs introduced again from Japan displaying scenes of Japanese troops’ invasion of northeast China, together with some taken in Mulan.
The crew will conduct an in-depth research of the newly collected proof, primarily based on different historic paperwork, to additional restore the historical past of Japan’s warfare crimes in China, in keeping with Jin.