KEY cultural relics of China’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) will be displayed for the first time at two exhibitions that open to the public today to mark the 70th anniversary of the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II on August 15, 1945.

They include a military map belonging to the commander of the Chinese army with the locations of Chinese and Japanese troops in Shanghai in 1937, and a military map from Japan with information about Shanghai and Nanjing in neighboring Jiangsu Province in preparation for Japanese invasions.

Both are being exhibited at the Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese Battle Memorial Hall in Baoshan District, that has added many newly-collected items to its objects on show.