Chinese President Xi Jinping held an informal meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday in Dujiangyan, southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Macron arrived in Sichuan's provincial capital Chengdu on Thursday evening, marking the second stop of his three-day state visit to China.
The Friday meeting took place in Dujiangyan, a county-level city under the administration of Chengdu.
Macron is on a state visit to China from Wednesday to Friday at the invitation of President Xi. This is Macron's fourth state visit to China and a reciprocal visit to Xi's historic state visit to France last year that marked the 60th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations.
Xi, Macron hold informal meeting in China's Sichuan Province
Xi, Macron hold informal meeting in China's Sichuan Province
Xi, Macron hold informal meeting in China's Sichuan Province
A new batch of historical records unveiling the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese army in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre was released at a ceremony held on Friday in a museum in east China's Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province.
The massacre following the Japanese troops' capture of Nanjing, the then Chinese capital, on Dec 13, 1937, left more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers dead.
Friday's ceremony in the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders was just held days before the 88th anniversary of the one of the most barbaric episodes of World War II.
The released historical records include letters of Japanese soldiers, photos taken after the occupation of Nanjing by the invading Japanese army, archival records of military medics who died in the defense of Nanjing, and the English and French periodicals.
Analysts say the newly released historical records provide irrefutable evidence for restoring the truth of history and constitute a powerful rebuttal to the claims of the Japanese right-wing forces.
China releases new findings on Nanjing Massacre
