2025 China Victory Day Parade

Conference to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War 纪念中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利80周年大会
Logo of 2025 China Victory Day Parade
Genre	Military parade
Date(s)	September 3, 2025
Location(s)	Chang'an Avenue, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China
Coordinates	39°54′26.4″N116°23′27.9″E / 39.907333°N 116.391083°E / 39.907333; 116.391083
Previous event	2015 China Victory Day Parade
Participants	Party and state leaders
General Secretary of the CCP	Xi Jinping [a]
Organised by	Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Military Commission (CMC)
People	Li Qiang (Premier and host)
CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping has also served as Chairman of the CCP Central Military Commission, the supreme commander of the armed forces since 2012.

The 80th anniversary of the victory in the War against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War will be observed with a series of ceremonial events including a military parade that will take place on 3 September 2025 in Beijing commemorating the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

Preparations

The official logo for the event was officially unveiled by the State Council Information Office on 13 May 2025. ^[1] Senior PLA officer Wu Zeke stated in June 2025 that the parade will feature "new-type combat capabilities" as well as a speech by CCP General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping. ^{[2] [3]}

Invited guests and dignitaries

The event is expected to attract a large number of foreign dignitaries, due to its proximity to the 2025 Tianjin SCO summit.

According to the Chinese assistant foreign minister Hong Lei, a total of 26 world leaders will be present at the parade. ^[4] Among the attendees of the foreign guests is Russian President Vladimir Putin, who faces an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (in which China is not a signatory to the Rome Statute) for its alleged role of unlawful abductions of children in the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in 2022. ^{[5] [6]} Reports also surfaced that the President of the United States Donald Trump is expected to be invited to the parade. ^[7]

As reported in Kyodo News, Japan had urged European and Asian leaders to not attend the parade, citing that the event excessively exhibits anti-Japanese sentiment and seeks to prevent China's interpretation of the war to spread. ^[8] The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in return lodged a protest against Japan. ^[9]

The following international dignitaries confirmed their plan to attend the parade:

Asia and Asia-Pacific

• Former Foreign Minister Bob Carr of Australia. ^[10]
• National Security Adviser Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh.
• Armed Forces Commander Haszaimi Bol Hassan of Brunei. ^[4]
• King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia. ^[4]
• President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran. ^[11]
• President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan. ^[4]
• President Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan. ^[4]
• Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of Japan. ^[10]
• General Secretary and President Thongloun Sisoulith of Laos. ^[12]
• Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia. ^[13]
• President Mohamed Muizzu of Maldives. ^[4]
• President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh of Mongolia. ^[4]
• Acting President Min Aung Hlaing of Myanmar. ^[12]
• Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli of Nepal. ^[14]
• Former Prime Minister John Key of New Zealand. ^[10]
• General Secretary of the Workers' Party Kim Jong Un of North Korea. ^[15]
• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan. ^[16]
• Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong of Singapore. ^[17]
• Speaker of the National Assembly Woo Won-shik of South Korea. ^[18]
• President Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan. ^[4]
• President of the National Parliament Maria Fernanda Lay of Timor-Leste ^[4]
• President Serdar Berdimuhamedov of Turkmenistan. ^[4]
• President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan. ^[4]
• President Lương Cường of Vietnam. ^[12]

Europe

• Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia. ^[19]
• President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan. ^{[19] [20]}
• President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus. ^[21]
• Deputy Prime Minister Atanas Zafirov of Bulgaria. ^[22]
• Former Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece ^[10]
• Former Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema of Italy. ^[10]
• Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó of Hungary. ^[22]
• President Vladimir Putin of Russia. ^[23]
• President Aleksandar Vučić of Serbia. ^[19]
• Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia. ^[19]
• Former President Ueli Maurer of Switzerland. ^[22]

Africa

• Veterans Minister Laid Rebiga of Algeria. ^[4]
• President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo. ^[4]
• Deputy Prime Minister Kamel al-Wazir of Egypt. ^[22]
• President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe. ^[4]

Americas

• First Secretary and President Miguel Diaz-Canel of Cuba. ^[4]
• President’s Adviser Laureano Ortega Murillo of Nicaragua. ^[4]
• President of the National Assembly Jorge Rodríguez of Venezuela

International organizations

• Secretary General Kao Kim Hourn of ASEAN. ^[4]
• Secretary General Sergei Lebedev of CIS. ^[4]
• Under Secretary General Li Junhua of the United Nations. ^[4]

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto who was invited to the parade has decided to cancel his attendance due to the August 2025 Indonesian protests. ^{[24] [25] [26]}

See also

• 2025 Tianjin SCO summit
• 2025 Moscow Victory Day Parade
• 70th Anniversary of Chinese People's Volunteers' Participation in War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
• 2015 China Victory Day Parade

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