Oldest veteran of anti-Japanese war dies at 113

Dong Jimin, the oldest living Chinese veteran of China's protracted struggle against the invading Japanese, from 1931 to 1945, died on Wednesday morning at the age of 113.

With his passing, veterans who fought in the war from the beginning and survived to see the invaders' defeated are closer to fading from the scene.

The war, known officially as the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, started in 1931 with the Sept 18 Incident in Shenyang, Liaoning province, when Japanese military personnel detonated a small quantity of dynamite close to a railway line controlled by Japan.