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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.
Now a PhD student majoring in physics at the City University of Hong Kong, Shi Lingchi grew up with her grandfather and often listened to his stories about the former destroyer Zhanjiang. Setting foot on the new destroyer today, she felt a lot.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region witnessed a historic display of national pride and naval power as China's first domestically built aircraft carrier, the CNS Shandong, arrived on Thursday, accompanied by a formidable escort fleet.
On his 28th birthday, Lieutenant Xie Huigui of the Chinese Navy was on board China's first domestically built aircraft carrier Shandong, bound for a five-day visit to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
This photo taken on July 2, 2025 shows the lightboxes of Liu Guixiang (L) and Xie Guiying (R) on a photo wall featuring survivors of the Nanjing Massacre at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province.
Chinese netizens recently took to social media to praise a People's Liberation Army soldier from Shangqiu, Henan province, for his courageous act of jumping into a lake five times to save five people from drowning, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Eighty-five years ago, in the heart of North China, in what is now Yangquan in Shanxi province, was the epicenter of one of the most significant campaigns in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).
In early autumn of 1937, as war loomed over northern China, Zeng Huai fled into the mountains with others from Baiyatai village, a small hamlet in Lingqiu county, in what is today Datong, Shanxi province.
China's resistance against Japanese aggression during World War II was a major contribution to the victory achieved by the Allied forces led by the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. Yet 80 years after the end of the brutal war, China's role still remains poorly understood in the West, said Rana Mitter, a British historian and the author of the book Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945.