On the morning of 3 March, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a regular press conference, at which spokesperson Zhu Fenglian answered reporters' questions on recent cross-strait hot issues.

A reporter asked: At the meeting between leaders of the two sides of the strait in 2015, it was proposed that the two sides of the strait jointly compile historical materials on the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

In this regard, Zhu Fenglian said that in November 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed at the meeting between leaders of the two sides of the strait that "both sides of the strait should support and encourage cross-strait historians to join hands, share historical materials, write history books together, jointly carry forward the spirit of the War of Resistance, and jointly defend national dignity and honor." Since 11, cross-strait historians have worked together to jointly study the history of the War of Resistance in the form of publishing books, special research, and holding academic conferences, and achieved fruitful results.

First, the two sides of the strait cooperated in editing and publishing works on the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. In 2016, "The Great Wall and the War of Resistance", co-edited by the Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee and the School of History of Nankai University, was published; In 2017, the "History of the War of Resistance between Fujian and Taiwan" was published by experts from both sides of the strait from the All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots, Xiamen University, Taiwan Alliance for the Reunification of China, Taiwan Anti-Japanese (Zhizhi) Relatives Association, Taiwan Ocean University and other institutions.

Second, scholars from both sides of the strait jointly participated in special research. The Special Project for Research on the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression of the National Social Science Fund has set up a project entitled "Cross-Strait Joint Compilation of the History of China's War of Resistance Against Japan", in which scholars from both sides of the strait jointly participate in the special research, and the results are presented in the form of books, which are divided into "War Mobilization and Social Construction Volume" and "Wartime Diplomacy Volume". Among them, the "War Mobilization and Social Construction Volume" is planned to include 14 papers by scholars on both sides of the strait, with more than 40,<> words, and the relevant work has entered the final stage.

Third, cross-strait historians cooperated in holding a seminar on the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Since 2017, the China Society for the History of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Taiwan Chinese National Anti-Japanese War Memorial Association have jointly hosted four seminars on the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the inheritance of the spirit of the War of Resistance in Nanjing, Wuhan, Nanning and Beijing, further enhancing the consensus of academic circles on both sides of the strait on the history of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, with the participation of more than 1500,3 retired generals, experts and scholars, teachers and young students from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. From March 23 to 29, the Taiwan Chinese National Anti-Japanese War Memorial Association organized a delegation to visit Beijing and Yunnan, and held a book launch meeting with the Chinese Anti-Japanese War History Society at the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall.

Zhu Fenglian pointed out that the development and continuous advancement of these works are of great significance to promoting compatriots on both sides of the strait to remember the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, carry forward the spirit of the War of Resistance, jointly defend national dignity and honor, and unite to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.