Lives of survivors of Nanjing Massacre

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The combo photo shows daily life of Cheng Fubao and his copy photo of 1963 (L, top). Cheng Fubao is a survivor of Nanjing Massacre, a heinous crime committed by the Japanese militarists during World War II in 1937, in Nanjing, capital of China. Photo taken on July 14, 2017 shows Cheng Fubao standing at his home (R top); copy photo of 30-year-old Cheng (L top); Cheng posting related news on Nanjing Massacre on Weibo at home (L bottom); Cheng reading newspaper at home (C bottom); Cheng posing with his wife and son at home (R bottom). Cheng was born on May 3, 1933. Cheng's father was shot to death by the Japanese invaders in 1937. The year 2017 marks the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, in which more than 300,000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese invaders who occupied Nanjing on Dec. 13, 1937, marking the start of six weeks of destruction, pillage, rape and slaughter in the city. There are only less than 100 living survivors of the atrocity. Reporters from Xinhua spent many years to look for the survivors of Nanjing Massacre and record their current lives. (Xinhua/Han Yuqing, Li Xiang and Ji Chunpeng)