War against aggression commemorated

Xi pays tribute to martyrs of major military campaign

President Xi Jinping reviewed and paid tribute to the glorious history of the Communist Party of China leading troops and civilians to fight against foreign aggression, as he visited the memorial hall of the Hundred-Regiment Campaign on Monday when making a fact-finding trip to Yangquan, a city in North China's Shanxi province.

The tour came as Monday marked the 88th anniversary of the start of the entire nation's resistance against Japanese aggression.

At the monument square honoring the martyrs of the Hundred-Regiment Campaign during the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45), Xi laid a floral basket to pay tribute to the martyrs.