Anti-Japanese War museum to reopen  

重庆抗战遗址博物馆将开放 将展出蒋介石老照片

中共重庆南岸区委宣传部20日证实，重庆抗战遗址博物馆经过一年多的重新修缮，预计将于2013年初重新对外开放。届时，部分珍贵史料拟首次公开。

Chongqing (CNS) -- The Chongqing Anti-Japanese War Site Museum will reopen to the public at the beginning of 2013, according to local authorities on Tuesday.

A number of precious historical relics will make their debut, including photographs of Chiang Kai-shek. The photographs were taken when Chiang and his wife Soong Mei-ling inspected air-raid shelters in Chongqing in 1941.

Chongqing was China's provisional capital during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), and the museum was once the anti-fascist command center in the Far East region. It includes the residence of the US military aid to China, the former office of Sino-US military cooperation, a number of former residences and villas for celebrities as well as various air-raid shelters.

The museum closed for renovation at the end of 2011. Eight major former sites of the Anti-Japanese War have been restored to their original look, the local authority said.