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Students wearing face masks hold flowers mourn for the victims of the Nakjing Massacre at a mass burial site during the annual commemoration of the 1937 Nanking Massacre in Nanjing in eastern China's Jiangsu province, Monday, December 13, 2021
CHINA marked the 84th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre today with an offer to “work with all of the peace-loving people in the world to build an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world that enjoys lasting peace.”
Vice-premier Sun Chunlan made the pledge at a ceremony at the memorial hall for victims of the 1937 massacre, one of the earliest and worst war crimes of the second world war in which 300,000 residents of the city — then China’s capital — were slaughtered by the invading Japanese.
Ms Sun called on the world to “learn from history and open up a new chapter of our future” as she addressed the thousands-strong crowd. Soldiers marched to lay wreaths in memory of the dead.
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