China's Jiuzhou Publishing House recently published two volumes of archives on the recovery of Taiwan to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the event.

One volume features more than 400 historical pictures and the other mainly historical documents to show Taiwan people's resistance against the 50-year-long Japanese colonial rule, the historical scene of the Chinese government's recovery of Taiwan and the political, economic and cultural conditions of Taiwan around the time of the recovery.

Some of the materials were made public for the first time, according to the publishing house.

The Chinese government of the Qing Dynasty (1644--1911) was forced to cede Taiwan and the adjacent Penghu Islands to Japan in 1895 after losing a war with Japanese aggressors. China recovered Taiwan on October 25, 1945, marked by a ceremony organized by China's Kuomintang government to accept the surrender of Japanese aggressors in Taiwan.

(Xinhua News Agency October 24, 2005)