摘要
People from all walks of life gather in Shenyang, capital of northeast China＇s Uaoning Province, to attend a ceremony commemorating the 81st anniversary of the September 18 Incident. On that day in 1931, Japanese troops blew up a section of the railway it controlled near Shenyang and then accused Chinese troops of having caused the explosion as a pretext for war. The incident was followed by Japan＇s full-scale invasion of China and the 14-year War of Chinese People＇s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The inva- sion spread to half of China＇s territory and took the lives of more than 35 million Chinese soldiers and civilians.
