Chinese netizens recently took to social media to praise a People's Liberation Army soldier from Shangqiu, Henan province, for his courageous act of jumping into a lake five times to save five people from drowning, Xinhua News Agency reported.
In early autumn of 1937, as war loomed over northern China, Zeng Huai fled into the mountains with others from Baiyatai village, a small hamlet in Lingqiu county, in what is today Datong, Shanxi province.
Eighty-five years ago, in the heart of North China, in what is now Yangquan in Shanxi province, was the epicenter of one of the most significant campaigns in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).
As International Children's Day fell on Sunday, 10-year-old Zhang Shucheng excitedly opened his gift -- a book that brings to life the dramatic story of the Chongqing bombing during World War II (WWII).
