Digital diary of unsung courage

Trio livestreams updates of war of resistance to remind today's generation of the soldiers' supreme sacrifices, Wang Xin reports in Shanghai.

"Today is July 7, 1937," read a Weibo post published on the same day in 2012, marking the launch of an extraordinary eight-year-long daily update project that followed the timeline of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).

The date is etched in history with the Lugou Bridge Incident in Beijing, when Japanese troops attacked Lugou Bridge (Marco Polo Bridge) and the defending Chinese troops rose to fight the enemy. The event triggered China's full-scale war of resistance against Japanese aggression, also a main Eastern theater of the World Anti-Fascist War.

The Weibo account named "Kang Zhan Zhi Bo", which means "the livestream of war of resistance against Japanese aggression", has posted an average of 10 posts every day, re-creating daily life during the grueling eight-year conflict till Sept 2, 2020. On Sept 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered, officially ending the war and World War II.