By Laurie Chen

BEIJING (Reuters) -China will hold a celebration of the 80th anniversary of Taiwan’s “retrocession” to Chinese rule, the government said on Wednesday, while sources told Reuters it was scheduled for this weekend in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People.

Both China and Taiwan use the term “retrocession” to refer to the island’s 1945 handover by Japan, which colonised Taiwan in 1895, to the Republic of China government, a transfer whose anniversary falls on Saturday.

“Taiwan’s retrocession stands as a significant achievement of the victory in the War of Resistance,” Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, told reporters in Beijing, referring to World War Two.

“It was a great triumph forged through the relentless and bloody struggles of all Chinese peop

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