December 13, 2023 is the 10th National Memorial Day and the 86th anniversary of Nanjing. On February 27, 2014, the seventh meeting of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress passed a decision to establish December 13 as the National Memorial Day for the victims of Nanjing in the form of legislation.
What is the theme of the 2023 National Memorial Day?
There is no theme for the 2023 National Memorial Day.
The establishment of a national memorial day is an international practice. It reminds people not to forget history and forge ahead;He stressed that we need to promote the concepts of peace, development, fairness and justice, establish a vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, firmly uphold the international system with the United Nations at its core, firmly uphold the basic norms governing international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, and work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
Why is the National Memorial Day on December 13?
Because after the start of the Sino-Japanese War, on December 13, 1937, the Japanese invaders began in Nanjing, China, and the Chinese compatriots were killed for more than 40 days, a total of more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians were killed, shocking China and foreign countries.
Later, in order to commemorate the national disasters that had occurred, the state designated December 13 as the National Death Day, in order to remember the profound disasters brought to the Chinese people by the war of aggression, to express the Chinese people's abhorrence of the war of aggression, and to maintain the firm stand of world peace.
National Memorial Day is dedicated to whom.
The National Memorial Day is named after "Nanjing Da**", but the object of memorial is not only the victims of Nanjing Da**. On February 27, 2014, the 7th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress of China passed a decision to make it clear that the objects of public memorial are the victims of the Nanjing Da** and all compatriots killed during the Japanese imperialist war of aggression against China.
Zhu Chengshan, a member of the expert group on the establishment of the National Memorial Day and director of the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Compatriots Killed in the Japanese Invasion of China, once said: "The Nanjing Incident is the most typical example of the heinous crimes of the Japanese invasion of China, but Nanjing is not the whole story. Japanese imperialism invaded our country, the earliest can be traced back to the invasion of Taiwan in 1874, and then until the announcement of surrender in 1945. During this period, those who were ** by the Japanese army should become the objects of public sacrifice. ”
The National Memorial Network, which was launched in 2014, lists seven categories of victims for netizens at home and abroad to mourn: Nanjing Da** victims, chemical ** victims, bacteriological war victims, labor victims, ** victims, Sanguang battle victims, and indiscriminate bombing victims.