The primary press convention on preparations for the V-Day commemorations is held by the press middle of Commemoration of eightieth Anniversary of Victory of Chinese language Folks’s Resistance in opposition to Japanese Aggression and World Anti-Fascist Struggle in Beijing, capital of China, on August 28. Assistant International Minister Hong Lei, Vice Minister of Tradition and Tourism Lu Yingchuan, Wu Zeke, deputy director of the Workplace of the Main Group for the Navy Parade and a senior officer of the Joint Workers Division of the Central Navy Fee (CMC) and Xia Linmao, government vice mayor of Beijing attended the press convention (XINHUA)
Chinese language President Xi Jinping will host leaders from 26 nations at an enormous navy parade in Tian’anmen Sq. subsequent week to mark the eightieth anniversary of the nation’s victory in opposition to Japanese aggression and the world’s victory in opposition to fascism.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and the highest chief of the Democratic Folks’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un are excessive up on the visitor checklist introduced on August 28 by China’s Assistant International Minister Hong Lei.
Leaders from Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Belarus, Serbia, Iran, and Cuba may even come, stated Hong at a press convention on the September 3 commemorations for the Chinese language Folks’s Struggle of Resistance Towards Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist Struggle.
Hong stated Putin’s attendance highlights the excessive degree of the China-Russia complete strategic partnership of coordination for a brand new period and underscores their unity in safeguarding the victorious outcomes of World Struggle II.
On Kim Jong Un’s attendance, Hong stated China and the DPRK are conventional pleasant neighbors. Through the arduous years of struggle, the 2 peoples collectively made necessary contributions to the victory of the World Anti-Fascist Struggle and humanity’s simply trigger.
The Chinese language Folks’s Struggle of Resistance Towards Japanese Aggression (1931-1945) was the primary to interrupt out and lasted the longest within the World Anti-Fascist Struggle. In 14 years, 35 million Chinese language have been killed or wounded. Japan formally surrendered on September 2, 1945, by signing the Instrument of Give up.
In 2014, China’s nationwide legislature designated September 3 as Victory Day of its Struggle of Resistance. A yr later, the nation held its first-ever large-scale parade in Tian’anmen Sq. to mark the event.
Hong stated China’s victory within the Struggle of Resistance 80 years in the past had impressed colonized and semi-colonized nations of their struggles for independence and liberation then.
Eighty years later, China is prepared to work with all events, together with nations within the International South, to advertise an equal and orderly multipolar world and an inclusive financial globalization drive that advantages everybody, and advance the righteous reason behind selling world peace, growth and progress, he added.
China has additionally invited international pals who had made contributions to the nation’s victory within the struggle, in addition to members of the family of those pleasant personages who’ve since deceased. Fifty folks from 14 nations, together with Russia, the US, the UK, France and Canada, will attend this yr’s commemorations.
Answering a query on Japan’s detrimental angle towards the commemorations, Hong urged Japan to face historical past squarely, replicate on its crimes of aggression, make a transparent break with militarism, and comply with the precise path of peaceable growth and good neighborly relations.
There are all the time some forces in Japan that search to disclaim and whitewash its aggression, distort historical past, and even try to alter the conviction of its struggle criminals in WWII, Hong stated. Such acts pose challenges to the post-WWII worldwide order, to human conscience and to all peace-loving folks.
Wu Zeke, deputy director of the workplace for organizing this yr’s parade, stated preparations are mainly full.
He famous that the parade will spotlight the Chinese language navy’s latest developments in modernization and enhanced fight readiness.
Three complete rehearsals have been accomplished with passable outcomes, Wu stated.
“All troops are in excessive spirits and all navy gear is in good situation,” he stated.
