Museum marks Mukden incident
| As a reminder of the historical day of Sept 18, 1931 when the Japanese army began aggression into Northeast China, the Shenyang city government has encouraged locals to ring the ceremonial bell at the museum. Wang Qibo / for China Daily |
| World War II veterans visit the 9.18 historical museum in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province. Lao Bing / for China Daily |
The 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang, the capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province, was founded to mark the Mukden Incident, or Sept 18 incident in 1931.
On that day, Japanese troops destroyed a section of railway in northern Shenyang and attacked a Chinese garrison in the Beidaying area of the city the same night.
The incident was the start of the Japanese military occupation of Northeast China, then known as Manchuria, until Japan surrendered in August 1945. About 35 million Chinese people were killed or wounded by invading Japanese troops between 1931 and 1945.
The museum is located on the site where Japanese troops destroyed the South Manchuria Railway.
As a reminder of the historical day the Shenyang city government has encouraged local residents to ring the ceremonial bell and honk their horns on Sept 18 every year since 1995.
(China Daily European Weekly 08/29/2014 page16)
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