Xinhua selects China pictures of the year 2019

Combo photo shows portraits of 100 survivors of the Nanjing Massacre. The year 2019 marked the 82nd 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. By Dec. 12, 2019, the number of registered survivors of the massacre has decreased to 78. (Xinhua/Han Yuqing, Ji Chunpeng and Li Xiang)