60 years after Japanese surrender

cctv.com 08-15-2005 16:36

It has been 60 years since Japan's invading army of two million, laid down its arms in China. Memorials and museums throughout the country are commemorating the end of China's resistance to the Japanese invasion.

On the northern outskirts of Beijing, a museum in the village of Jiaozhuanghu has opened to commemorate the resistance of the 1940's, when local guerrillas dug tunnels as part of their hit-and-run war against Japanese aggressors.

In East China's Shandong Province, hundreds of students joined former Red Army soldiers, to plant trees to commemorate victory in a key battle.

And in North China's Hebei province, a monument in memory of a battle between the Chinese army and Japanese invaders in 1933, was unveiled at the Xifengkou Gate of the Great Wall.

Son of Kuomintang General Tong Bing said: "It's been 72 years since the Battle of the Great Wall. Time has passed but the patriotic spirit remains and should be carried on."

In Shanghai, an exhibition of Japanese army atrocities during the Songhu Battle in 1937 is on show.

Survivor of the Songhu Battle Jin Zhaoqi said: "I witnessed those atrocities. All of us, especially the younger generations, should never forget history."

In Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, confessions written by ten Japanese war criminals in 1946, have been uncovered. They depict war crimes committed against Chinese people.

Editor:Wang Ping  Source:CCTV.com