What year was the September 18 Incident? What anniversary is it this year?

The September 18th Incident happened in 1931, and this year is the 88th anniversary.

On September 18, 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army stationed in Northeast China suddenly attacked Shenyang and occupied Northeast China by force. From the end of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, Japan gradually determined the strategic policy that to conquer the world, it must first conquer China, and to conquer China, it must first conquer "Manchuria and Mongolia".

In 1930, the world capitalist economic crisis affected Japan. In order to divert the increasingly intensified domestic class contradictions, Japan accelerated the pace of military invasion of China. In July and August 1931, Japan created the "Wanbaoshan" in Northeast China. Incident” and “Nakamura Incident”.

In February 1932, the entire Northeast fell. After that, Japan established the puppet regime of Manchukuo in Northeast China and began its 14-year-long enslavement and colonial rule of the Northeast people.