national massacre国家公祭日
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Chinese residents attend a ceremony to mark China's first National Memorial Day at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing in eastern China's Jiangsu province Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Speaking at a memorial in the eastern city of Nanjing, a somber Xi said that while history must never be forgotten, the future was just as important.
"The reason we are having a memorial for the Nanjing Massacre victims is to recall that all good-hearted people yearn for and hold fast to peace, not to prolong hatred," Xi said, in comments carried live on state television.
"The people of China and Japan should pass on friendship from generation to generation," he added.
"Forgetting history is a betrayal, and denying a crime is to repeat a crime. We should not hate a people just because a small minority of militarists set off an invasion and war.
"... but nobody at any time should forget the severe crimes of the invaders."