Xia Yuan (1st R), the granddaughter of Xia Shuqin, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, recounts the experiences her grandmother went through back then during a ceremony marking the 89th anniversary of the beginning of China's whole-nation resistance war against Japanese aggression at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, July 7, 2026. China on Tuesday marked the 89th anniversary of the beginning of its whole-nation resistance war against Japanese aggression. (Xinhua/Li Bo)