Nanjing Massacre victims mourned 2020-12-14 08:43:49China Daily
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A memorial ceremony is held in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Sunday to mourn the 300,000 victims of the Nanjing Massacre. In 2014, China s top legislature designated Dec 13 as the National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims. (Photo by Cui Xiao/For China Daily)
People from all walks of life attended the ceremony for the National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims in the city in Jiangsu province on Sunday to mourn the 300,000 people who were killed by Japanese troops after they captured the city on Dec 13, 1937.
Chen Xi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and head of the CPC Central Committee s Organization Department, said at the ceremony that the Chinese people will firmly keep history in mind, never forget the past, always cherish peace and look to the future.
Memorial halls in China form alliance to remember war histroy, cherish peace
2020-12-14 17:48
NANJING, December 14 At the dawn of China s seventh National Memorial Day for the Nanjing Massacre Victims, 21 memorial halls of the Chinese People s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China formed an alliance to remember war histroy and cherish peace.
Last month, three memerial halls, namely, the Museum of the War of the Chinese People s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang and Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, jointly initiated the establishment of an alliance for the memory of war and peace. The first batch of 21 member units was quickly decided after the proposal was issued. The secretariat was set up at the Institute of Nanjing Massacre History and International Peace Studies.
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