A bell-ringing ceremony was held to mark the 93rd anniversary of the September 18 incident in front of a monument at the September 18 Incident History Museum in Shenyang City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, on Wednesday.

It was on this fateful day in 1931 when Japanese troops blew up a section of the railway under their control, near Shenyang and accused Chinese troops of sabotage as a pretext for subsequent aggression against China.