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Event marks Taiwan’s reclamation by China

Source: Xinhua | October 24, 2015, Saturday | Print Edition

A CEREMONY commemorating the 70th anniversary of the recovery of sovereignty over Taiwan from Japan was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday.

Taiwan’s return to China was achieved after victory in the war against Japanese aggression, which was won thanks to the efforts of all Chinese people including those from Taiwan, top political adviser Yu Zhengsheng said.

“China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity has not been severed and the fact that the two sides belong to one China has not changed,” said Yu, who is chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

Every Chinese citizen’s mission is to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and ensure that Taiwan’s status as a part of China’s territory does not change, he said.

Compatriots across the Taiwan Strait are resolute and capable of thwarting all separatist attempts, maintaining cross-Strait peace, and boosting the development of ties, he said.

Yu called on people on both sides to oppose anything that might put at risk hard-won cross-Strait peace and what had been achieved through peaceful development of ties.

He also stressed the significance of adhering to the path of peaceful development of cross-Strait relations.

In 1895, when China was defeated in the first Sino-Japanese War, the Qing government was forced to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki, ceding Taiwan and its affiliated islands to Japan.

When Japan surrendered at the end of World War II, China recovered territory occupied by Japan, including the island of Taiwan.

Victory in war and the recovery of sovereignty over Taiwan “re-established China as a major country in the world and opened up bright prospects for the Chinese nation,” Yu said.

Also yesterday, an exhibition about the history of Taiwan people’s resisting Japanese aggression opened at the Chinese People’s Anti-Japanese War Museum in the capital.

There are 355 pictures and 416 relics on display. Veterans of World War II and representatives from Taiwan attended the opening ceremony.

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