Xi hails victory 7 decades ago

Xi called for intensified steps to study and publicize the heroic stories of the CPV forces and to learn the history of the Party, the People's Republic of China, the country's reform and opening-up and socialist development.

It is important to spur the whole Party, the armed forces and the people of all ethnic groups to rally more closely around the CPC Central Committee, keep firmly in mind original inspirations and missions, firm up triumphalism, give play to fighting spirits and enhance fighting capacities, he said.

Xi was accompanied by other members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the Party's highest body, and Vice-President Wang Qishan while reviewing the exhibition.

Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, spoke at the opening of the exhibition on Monday morning.

More than 540 photos, 1,900 cultural relics and a large number of videos and reconstructed scenes were displayed at the exhibition, which is divided into seven thematic sessions.

On Oct 19, 1950, CPV forces, under a request made by the DPRK, crossed the Yalu River to aid the DPRK's fight there until a truce was signed in 1953. A total of 2.9 million CPV soldiers entered the battlefield, and 197,653 of them sacrificed their lives in the war.

Xinhua contributed to this story.