1,000 pay tribute at mass grave

A public memorial ceremony was held on Saturday for the 100,000 miners who died while being forced to work for the Japanese in Fuxin, Liaoning province, during their occupation from 1933 to 1945.

More than 1,000 people attended the ceremony.

Li Xi, Party chief of Liaoning, provincial Governor Chen Qiufa, and 83-year-old Gao Duoxian unveiled a statue for the restored and reopened memorial hall at the site of the miners' mass grave.