The Chinese people supported the Eastern front of the World Anti-Fascist War with enormous national sacrifices.

The Information Office of the State Council held a press conference this morning to introduce that in the World Anti-Fascist War, the Chinese people's resistance against Japan started the earliest and lasted the longest. The Chinese people supported the Eastern front of the World Anti-Fascist War with huge national sacrifices. According to incomplete statistics, more than 35 million Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed or injured. Based on the ratio in 1937, the direct economic losses were over 100 billion US dollars and the indirect economic losses were over 500 billion US dollars. The Chinese battlefield long restrained and fought against the main forces of Japanese militarism, annihilating over 1.5 million Japanese troops, playing a decisive role in the complete defeat of the Japanese aggressors. China's resistance not only strategically supported the operations of the Allied forces, but also coordinated with strategic actions on the European and other Asian battlefields, disrupting the strategic cooperation attempts between Japanese fascism and German and Italian fascism, and greatly influencing the victory of the people of various countries in the World Anti-Fascist War and the great cause of achieving world peace.