[Video/Jilin University]

To mark the 80th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931–45) and the World Anti-Fascist War, Jilin University has produced a video titled Youth Lens: Railway and Resistance.

The film tells the story of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which traverses an area of more than 2,400 kilometers in Northeast China. Constructed largely by Chinese laborers starting in 1896, the railway's destiny has always been bound to that of the people living along its tracks.

After Japanese forces attacked the barracks of Chinese troops in Shenyang on Sep 18, 1931, the railway became more than just infrastructure – it turned into a lifeline for the Northeast United Resistance Army. Grain, ammunition, medicine, and intelligence moved secretly along its routes, carried by both soldiers and railway workers under the nose of Japanese forces.

From 1933 to 1945, railway workers repeatedly rose in defiance, carrying out strikes and sabotage operations in an effort to disrupt Japanese supply lines and assert the power of collective resistance. Their courage transformed the Chinese Eastern Railway into both a physical and symbolic track of resilience.