Nanjing City on Sunday evening marked the death of victims in Nanjing Massacre 78 years ago with candle-light vigil and prayers.

From Dec. 13, 1937 to January 1938, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers were killed in the massacre carried out by Japanese invaders after the city fell into the hands of the Japanese.

People including youngsters, Buddhists and foreigners attended the candle vigil at the Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre.

Candles and flowers were placed around the memorial hall before the peaceful vigil in the evening.

It was the seventh consecutive year since 2009 that the memorial hall invited people from both home and abroad to mourn for the victims and pray for world peace.

Earlier on Sunday, China held a national memorial for the massacre victims with Li Jianguo, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, addressing the event

In February 2014, China's top legislature designated Dec. 13 as the National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims.