Chinanews. com, July 7, comprehensive news, at 10:00 this morning, a ceremony commemorating the 77th anniversary of the outbreak of the national war of resistance was held at the Memorial Hall of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression by the Lugou Bridge. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the ceremony and delivered an important speech. This is the first time that a top leader of the country participated in the official commemoration on July 7.
July 7 is the 77th anniversary of the outbreak of the national war of resistance. At 10 a.m., Xi Jinping, Yu Zhengsheng and other party and state leaders came to the Memorial Hall of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to participate in the memorial ceremony with more than 1000 representatives from all walks of life.
Xi Jinping, together with Jiao Runkun, an old soldier of the New Fourth Army who participated in the Anti Japanese War, Lin Shangyuan, an old soldier of the Kuomintang, and two children, unveiled the sculpture. The sculpture is 4 meters long and 3.2 meters wide. On the front of the base is a huge medal of independence and freedom. The whole sculpture symbolizes the Chinese people's spirit of struggle to pursue peace and justice and defend national independence and freedom without fear of violence and sacrifice.
[Background: Medal of Independence and Freedom] In 1955, the Seventh Meeting of the Standing Committee of the First National People's Congress passed a resolution granting the August 1st Medal, the Medal of Independence and Freedom, and the Medal of Liberation to the meritorious personnel of the Chinese People's Liberation Army who participated in the revolutionary war during the period of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the Anti Japanese War, and the War of Liberation. Zhu De and other 117 people were awarded the First Class Medal of Independence and Freedom.
Full text of Xi Jinping's speech at Lugouqiao in memory of the 77th Incident:
July 7 is the 77th anniversary of the "July 7th Incident". In the morning, the party and state leaders will go to the Memorial Hall of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to join representatives from all walks of life in the capital to solemnly commemorate the seventy-seven anniversary of the outbreak of the national war of resistance against Japanese aggression.
Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered a speech:
Compatriots, Comrades and Friends: Today, we are holding a grand ceremony here to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the outbreak of the national war of resistance. The purpose is to remember history, remember the martyrs, cherish peace, warn the future, unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development, and unswervingly maintain world peace.
On July 7, 1937, in order to achieve the evil ambition of annexing the whole of China by force, the Japanese aggressors brazenly shelled Wanping City and created the Lugouqiao Incident that shocked China and foreign countries. At the side of Lugou Bridge, the smoke of gunpowder filled the air and shrouded in the flames of war ignited by the invaders. The Chinese military and people made a tenacious resistance to the Japanese militarist aggression. From the beginning of the Lugouqiao Incident, Pingjin was in danger, North China was in danger, and the Chinese nation was in danger.
At this time of national crisis, the Communist Party of China, adhering to the national justice, shouldered the historical responsibility of national salvation and called for the establishment of an anti Japanese national united front based on the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to resist Japanese aggression and expel Japanese invaders out of China. In the face of the barbaric aggression of the Japanese aggressors, all ethnic groups, all classes, all parties, all social organizations, patriots from all walks of life, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese all over the country united and joined in this great struggle that concerns the life and death of the nation.
Since then, all the Chinese people have braved the enemy's fire to go to the national disaster in the north and south of the Yangtze River, inside and outside the Great Wall. Whether in the front battlefield or the battlefield behind the enemy, tens of thousands of patriotic generals and men have fought bloody battles and faced death as if they were going home. The people from all walks of life have united as one and shared the same hatred for the enemy, playing a heroic song of triumph against Japanese aggression, With life and blood, he wrote a magnificent epic of earth moving resistance to foreign aggression.
In this great struggle to save the nation from extinction, the Chinese people are willing to sacrifice their lives and blood for the independence and freedom of the Chinese nation. Their mothers send their children to fight the Japanese invaders, their wives send their sons to the battlefield, and men, women, old and young mobilize together. Deng Yufen, a mother in Miyun County, Beijing, sent her husband and five children to the front, and they all died in battle. A farmer's family on the North China Plain wrote a couplet like this: "All unite as one to guarantee the independence of the country and fight for national liberation unswervingly"; The horizontal scroll reads "War of Resistance to the End". This is the roar of the Chinese people fighting bloody battles to the end with the Japanese aggressors, and it is the declaration that the Chinese nation will win the war of resistance.
Today, we are here to unveil the sculpture of the Medal of Independence and Freedom, to remember the martyrs who died bravely in the process of striving for national independence and freedom, to remember the people who made important contributions to the pursuit of peace and justice, and to pay tribute to the compatriots who lost their lives in that war. We will always remember them and remember them.
Fellow countrymen, comrades and friends! The great Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is a sobering page in the history of the Chinese people's struggle for independence and freedom since modern times, and a chapter that has experienced many vicissitudes in the historical development of the Chinese nation.
The great Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has brought the awakening and unity of the Chinese nation to an unprecedented height. As Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out, this is "a wonder in the history of war, a feat of the Chinese nation, and an earth shaking undertaking".
The great Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression opened up the main eastern battlefield of the world's anti fascist war, and made historic contributions to saving the nation from danger, achieving national independence and people's liberation, and striving for world peace.
History is the best textbook and the best sobering agent. The Chinese people have an indelible memory of the suffering brought about by the war and a tireless pursuit of peace. Throughout world history, foreign aggression and expansion relying on force will ultimately fail. This is the law of history. China will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development, and hopes that all countries in the world will jointly follow the path of peaceful development, so that the sun of peace will always shine on the planet of human life.
[Xi Jinping]
It is shocking that today, nearly 70 years after the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti Fascist War, a few people still ignore the iron historical facts, ignore the tens of millions of innocent lives sacrificed in the war, go against the historical trend, repeatedly deny or even beautify the history of aggression, undermine international mutual trust, and create regional tensions, It has aroused strong condemnation from peace loving people all over the world, including the Chinese people. [ 2014-07-07 10:11 ]
[Xi Jinping]
History is history, facts are facts, and no one can change history and facts. The Chinese people, who have made great sacrifices, will unswervingly defend the history written with blood and life. If anyone wants to deny, distort or even beautify the history of aggression, the Chinese people and people of other countries will never agree! [ 2014-07-07 10:12 ]
[Xi Jinping]
Fellow countrymen, comrades and friends! Worry enlightens saints, and adversity rejuvenates the nation. The victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression proves that the Chinese nation is a nation with tenacious vitality and extraordinary creativity. As long as we are closely united, there will be no difficulties we cannot overcome. [ 2014-07-07 10:12 ]
[Xi Jinping]
Under the new historical conditions, the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups should vigorously carry forward the great spirit of the War of Resistance, constantly strengthen the spiritual bond of unity and the spiritual motivation of self-improvement, continue to forge ahead towards the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and constantly comfort our predecessors and heroes with new achievements in upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics!

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