The 60th anniversary of the July 7 Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which sparked Japan's invasion of China, will be marked with the opening of the second phase of a war museum on Monday.
Academic bodies in Beijing have organised a series of seminars linked to the anniversary.
Analysts said President Jiang Zemin was keen to publicise events celebrating China's resistance to Japanese aggression to boost patriotic sentiment and to remind Tokyo of its imperial past.
The second phase of the museum would open with a photographic exhibition titled A Just Judgment, the Beijing Daily reported.
The museum is near the Marco Polo Bridge, called Luguoqiao in Chinese, where the Japanese military clashed with Chinese forces on July 7, 1937.
The first phase of the museum was opened in 1995 to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II.
