Tailors traveled nationwide for secret task

Tailors from a leading uniform supplier fanned across the country to complete a unique project for the Sept 3 military parade that marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).

They needed to collect the measurements of hundreds of descendants of veterans of the anti-fascist war, who were to make up a special parade-day unit.

About two months ago, Xu Li was going about her regular work at Jihua 3502 Professional Garment Co when she was ordered to visit eight cities in four days to measure nine veterans' descendants for their clothing sizes.