Chief Executive John Lee on Saturday led top officials in a ceremony at Central Government Offices in Admiralty to commemorate the more than 300,000 people who died in the Nanjing Massacre.

A two-minute silence was observed after the playing of the national anthem.

During the ceremony, Lee laid a wreath to the victims and led participants in signing the memorial book.

Representatives of the Central People's Government offices in Hong Kong, SAR deputies to the National People's Congress, and former chief executives Carrie Lam and Donald Tsang were among those at the event.

The Nanjing Massacre occurred after Japanese troops captured the then-Chinese capital on December 13, 1937. Over six weeks, they killed approximately 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers in one of the most barbaric episodes of World War II.