 China regained all territories lost to Japan.In China, the war is most commonly known as the "War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression" (), and shortened to the "Resistance against Japanese Aggression" () or the "War of Resistance" ().It was also called the "Eight Years' War of Resistance" (), but in 2017 the Chinese Ministry of Education issued a directive stating that textbooks were to refer to the war as the "Fourteen Years' War of Resistance" (), reflecting a focus on the broader conflict with Japan going back to 1931.