Beijing hopes this year’s anniversary activities will help it publicise stories of wartime solidarity and boost people-to-people exchange.

A popular film about the Nanking massacre marks the latest fraught chapter between countries that view each other with suspicion and affinity.

Eighty years after the end of WWII, the best way of remembering those who gave so much is to do everything possible to rid the world of war.

Beijing hopes this year’s anniversary activities will help it publicise stories of wartime solidarity and boost people-to-people exchange.