A museum that serves as a memorial to the WWII massacre in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing received a record number of visitors in the first half of 2015, following the designation of the National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims last year.
Between the start of January and Thursday, 4,356,700 people visited the Memorial Hall for Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders. That number was up 49.3 percent from the first half of 2014, according to the site's management.
They are now expecting a total of 10 million visitors by the end of 2015, the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.
On Dec. 13, China observed its first Nanjing Massacre memorial day with a ceremony at the museum.
On April 5, Tomb Sweeping Day, the memorial hall received 112,000 visitors, a daily record since opening in 1985.
In 2014, it saw eight million visits, up 30 percent year on year, making it the second-most-visited museum in the world behind Beijing's Palace Museum.
