Chinese worldwide share Nanjing’s painful memory
2017-12-13 09:22:01 source：Global Times
December 12, 2017
China will hold an annual memorial for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre on Wednesday as the tragedy is becoming a shared memory for Chinese around the world.
On Wednesday, leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the central government will attend the ceremony in Nanjing at a square in front of the Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
On December 13, 1937, Nanjing fell to Japanese invaders who went on a more than month-long slaughter of civilians. About 300,000 Chinese were killed, and 20,000 women raped. In February 2014, China's top legislature designated December 13 as a national memorial day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
Due to preparations for the annual memorial, the memorial hall has been closed to the public from November 20 to December 13, but many locals and tourists still came to the memorial hall, most of them young people.
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