The world significance of formal commemoration and public sacrifice in the name of the country lies in that it can keep human historical memory awake for a long time, avoid even a moment of forgetting and numbness, learn from history together, create the future, jointly safeguard world peace and justice conscience, and promote common development and progress of the times.

2015,65438+14 October, the Japanese government "made representations" to the Chinese side, thinking that this figure was "inappropriate" at the national public sacrifice ceremony on June 3, 201937 "300,000 compatriots were brutally killed".

In fact, regarding the history of the Nanjing Massacre, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China has repeatedly reiterated that the Nanjing Massacre was a brutal crime committed by Japanese militarism in the war of aggression against China, and the evidence is conclusive, and the international community has already reached a conclusion on this.