National Memorial Day is a national commemorative activity established by a country to commemorate the major national disasters that have occurred, which is decided by the organs of state power. The seventh meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress of the people's Republic of China adopted by unanimous vote: December 13 was designated as the National Memorial Day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
After the end of the Second World War, the governments of the main Warring States launched national mourning days in the form of national public sacrifices to commemorate the people who died in the tragedy, so as to enhance modern people's memory of the country's history of war disasters. The Holocaust Memorial Hall of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, the Pearl Harbor Incident Memorial Hall in the United States, the Patriotic War Memorial Hall in Russia, the atomic bombing memorial halls in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, and so on, hold national public sacrifices every year. The most unforgettable thing for China is the Nanjing Massacre, which left the darkest page in the history of human civilization, when the Japanese invaders invaded Nanjing on December 13, 1937 and committed an inhumane massacre against our compatriots for more than 40 days.
81 years ago, on December 13, the Japanese invaders captured Nanjing and committed a terrible massacre. During the six weeks of purgatory, the lives were ruined, the blood was stained in the Qinhuai River, and the water was red in the Yangtze River. 300000 of our compatriots were brutally killed by the Japanese invaders. The Nanjing Massacre is known as' the darkest page in the history of modern civilization '. Time flies, time is speechless, in a twinkling of an eye, it is December 13 of the year. The pain of etching bones and the war of the nation should be sacrificed to the country! Please leave a minute for our nation and the pain of this nation.
On February 27, 2014, China established December 13 as the National Memorial Day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre in the form of legislation. From the national level, we will pay tribute to the victims of the Nanjing Massacre and cherish the memory of all the victims killed by the Japanese aggressors.
On October 9, 2015, the archives of the Nanjing Massacre declared by China were successfully selected into the list of UNESCO's "world memory list", and the historical memory of the Nanjing Massacre rose from a city and a country to the memory of all mankind.
On November 23 this year, the Standing Committee of Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress unanimously adopted the regulations of Nanjing on the protection of national public sacrifice. The regulations will come into force today. As the venue of the national public sacrifice for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, Nanjing officially passed local legislation and the first local regulations on national public sacrifice to ensure the national public sacrifice. As the venue of the national public sacrifice for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, Nanjing officially passed local legislation and the first local regulations on national public sacrifice to ensure the national public sacrifice.
At 10:01 this morning, please leave one minute to stop, whistle, stand in silence and pay tribute. Let's listen to the heartbreaking alarm over the city. In Nanjing, 17 memorials and mass graves of compatriots killed in the Nanjing Massacre were held simultaneously with the memorial hall of compatriots killed in the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese invaders. In China, Beijing, Shenyang, Lushun, Fushun, Harbin, Shanghai, Yancheng, Fuzhou, Yan'an, Taierzhuang, Xinyang, Zhijiang, Dongguan, Tengchong and other places where national anti Japanese war memorials are located, public offerings are held simultaneously & hellip& hellip;
Today, we commemorate the victims with the ceremony of national sacrifice in order to protect the unforgettable memory and safeguard the hard won peace. The Chinese people are determined to maintain peace. The Chinese nation's will to realize the "Chinese dream" of great rejuvenation is as firm as a rock.
This year is the fifth year of the National Memorial Day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre. Over the past five years, the National Memorial Day, with the restoration and freeze of a tragic history, has cherished the memory of the victims of the Nanjing Massacre and all the compatriots killed during the Japanese militarist war of aggression against China, and the memory of the revolutionary martyrs and national heroes who gave their lives for the victory of the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japan; Over the past five years, the National Memorial Day has strengthened the 'national memory' in the name of the country, greatly stimulated patriotic enthusiasm and condensed the great force of national rejuvenation; Over the past five years, the holding of the national public memorial ceremony has also had a far-reaching impact internationally. UNESCO has officially included the archives of the Nanjing Massacre in the UNESCO World memory list.
Learn from history and forge ahead in the pain of history; Only by self-improvement can we stand proudly in the forest of nations in the world!