China publishes record of wartime losses

China has begun to publish national survey findings of the population and property loss during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).

The Party History Research Center of the Communist Party of China Central Committee announced in late September it has successfully conducted a 10-year national survey to document such losses during the war, which involved 600,000 participants and resulted in a series of books that the Party History Publishing House of CPC has recently started to publish.

The war broke out in 1937 and ended on Aug 15, 1945, with Japan's unconditional surrender, which also effectively ended World War II.