China's Xi attends ceremony marking 75th anniversary of end of WW2

Record ID: 1957928

  • Title: China's Xi attends ceremony marking 75th anniversary of end of WW2
  • Date: 3rd September 2020
  • Summary: HUOQIU COUNTY, ANHUI PROVINCE, CHINA (JULY 22, 2020) (CCTV - NO USE CHINA) FLOODWATER FLOWING THROUGH DAM VARIOUS AERIALS OF OVERFLOWING DAM FLOODWATER FLOWING THROUGH FLOODGATES WUWEI COUNTY, ANHUI PROVINCE, CHINA (JULY 21, 2020) (CCTV - NO USE CHINA) RESCUERS HELPING RESIDENTS OUT OF HOUSE RESCUE HOLDING ROPE AND WALKING UP TO RESIDENT RESCUERS AND RESIDENT IN SPEED BOAT
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  • Keywords: 75th anniversary Beijing Sino-Japanese War WW2 Xi Jinping ceremony
  • Location: BEIJING, CHINA
  • City: BEIJING, CHINA
  • Country: China
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,China (PRC),Defence,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA002CU4UF5Z
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  • Story Text:China marked the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two on Thursday (September 3) with a short ceremony in Beijing attended by the country's top leadership including President Xi Jinping, state media reported.
    The ceremony was held at a museum near the Marco Polo Bridge in the western suburbs of the capital. The Marco Polo Bridge incident, in which Chinese and Japanese troops fired shots on July 7, 1937, is attributed to sparking the second Sino-Japanese war.
    State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of Xi and other senior leaders paying their respects in front of a war memorial at the museum.
    China has since 1946 marked the end of the second world war on September 3, effectively making it the country's version of Victory Day, which much of the rest of the world marks in mid-August. Mid-August is when Japan surrendered, and September 2 is when the surrender document was signed.
    (Production: Martin Pollard, Wang Shubing)
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