The Nanjing Massacre refers to the 40-day-long mass slaughter of the Republic of China in Nanjing and its neighboring areas during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period in People's Republic of China (PRC) 1937 to 1945, and after the fall of the capital Nanjing13 [1]. Among them, Japanese war crimes include robbery, rape and massacre of a large number of civilians and prisoners of war. The scale of the massacre and the number of casualties are not recognized by the world, but it is generally believed that the death toll exceeds 300 thousand. [2]

Nanjing Massacre is a flagrant violation of international treaties and basic human moral standards by the Japanese invaders, and it is one of the most prominent and representative examples of countless atrocities committed by the Japanese invaders in the war of aggression against China. During the Nanjing Massacre, The New York Times, Central Daily, Xinhua Daily and other Chinese and foreign media widely exposed the Nanjing Massacre.

After the war, the China National Government conducted an extensive investigation on the Nanjing Massacre. Among them, the Nanjing Military Court, which tried war criminals, identified 28 cases of collective massacre by the Japanese army, with the number of massacres being 6,543,800+0.9 million; There were 858 sporadic massacres, with 6.5438+0.5 million deaths and more than 300,000 deaths, which created a terrible tragedy. [3] 20 15 10 9, Historical Archives of Nanjing Massacre was officially listed in the Memory of the World. [4] On the morning of 20151213, the Central Committee of China and the State Council held a national public sacrifice ceremony for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre in Nanjing. Li Jianguo, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), attended and spoke. [5]