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The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy ships Qi Jiguang and Yimengshan concluded their three-day open ship events on Friday morning and departed from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) en route to Cambodia, Thailand, and Singapore.
Hong Kong resident Chan Siu-hang, a military enthusiast, was impressed by the weapon systems on the Yimengshan. "Our country's military capabilities are getting stronger and are now among the best in the world. I feel truly proud."
On Tuesday morning, leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the state attended a ceremony to present flower baskets to fallen national heroes at Tian'anmen Square in central Beijing.
In 2014, China's top legislature designated Dec. 13 as a national memorial day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
As the world's largest ruins of a germ warfare research site, the location that hosted Unit 731 is of outstanding historical and educational value. These ruins were included on China's tentative list of world cultural heritage sites in 2012.
"It is genuinely global, because it involves every part of the globe. I want you to get away from the idea that this is a European-centered war," Overy says.
As China prepares to commemorate the victory again in September, the memory of the war remains vivid.
Eighty years ago, Charlie Stanley was just three years old when he and his parents were imprisoned in a concentration camp in Weifang City, east China's Shandong Province, during WWII.
Students place chrysanthemums on the tombstone of U.S. Flying Tiger pilot Glen Beneda in Hong'an County, central China's Hubei Province, July 28, 2025.
At a monument in memory of a group of anti-Japanese aggression martyrs in Lung Kwu Tan in the western part of Tuen Mun District of Hong Kong, 90-year-old veteran Lin Zhen stands with a cane, the medals around her neck glinting in the sunlight.
As China prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of its victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression on Sept. 3, a remote town in central China's Hubei Province is quietly staging a powerful act of remembrance.
"Overseas reporters should share more of China's wartime history," Alina said. "Many believe World War II ended in May when Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, but few know it truly concluded on September 2."
When Japanese militarists launched their full-scale invasion of China 88 years ago, the Chinese military and people initiated a whole-of-nation war effort that opened the main Eastern battlefield in the global war against fascism.
As 80th anniversary of war victory nears, memories of Japanese crimes still vivid
It has been 88 years since the outbreak of Japan's full-scale invasion of China. True history should not be concealed, let alone distorted. Remembering true history is necessary to draw lessons from it and to cherish peace.