Unit 731 Museum

The former site of the Japanese Army's Unit 731 is located in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. It is a historical relic of the war crimes activities carried out by the Japanese Army's Unit 731, including human experiments, animal experiments, and biological and chemical weapons research and production.

The 731st Unit of the Japanese Army was established in 1933. It once engaged in war crimes such as human experiments, animal experiments, and research and production of biological and chemical weapons in the name of the Ishii Unit, the Togo Unit, and the Kwantung Army's Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department. In 1936, a bacterial weapons research and production base was established in Pingfang, Harbin, and 6.1 square kilometers of land was used as a special military area. In August 1945, most of the buildings of the 731st Unit were blown up when it fled. There are 23 former sites of the former headquarters of the 731st Unit of the Japanese Army, including the former site of the crematorium, the former site of the frostbite laboratory, the site of the virus laboratory, and the site of the boiler room. The former site of the Unit 731 of the Japanese invaders in China is relatively well preserved. It is the largest bacteriological weapons research, experiment and manufacturing base in the world history. It is the base camp where Japanese militarism violated international conventions and used living people for frostbite, bacterial infection and poison gas experiments. It is the source of launching bacteriological warfare and important evidence of Japan's foreign aggression, expansion, plundering of resources and trampling on sovereignty. The former site of the Unit 731 of the Japanese invaders in China is an important position for patriotism and world anti-fascist war education, an important position for peace education and national defense education, an important position for recording history and warning the world, and an important historical site for implementing the spirit of "remembering history, not forgetting the past, cherishing peace and creating the future" determined by the central government.

In May 2006, the former site of the Unit 731 of the Japanese invaders in China was announced by the State Council of the People's Republic of China as the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.