World Red Cross Day, also called World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, is on May 8th, and it is an annual celebration of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and all the National Red Cross. The date is also the birthday of Henry Dunant, who is the founder of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The first world war bring great pain to people, after the war the red cross of Czechoslovakia first initiative to organize the “red cross truce” activities, it was held to make the Red Cross humanitarian thoughts spread over the world, enhance friendship and cooperation between people, promote world peace and reduce the war. And this activity got universal praise and support from the International Committee of Red Cross. Since 1961, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies will put forward the World Red Cross Day theme. This year’s theme is “my Red Cross Story”. And according to that theme and the local situation, the National Red Cross all over the world will organize various forms of activities to celebrate the day.

五月八日是世界紅十字日，其又稱為世界紅十字與紅新月日，這一天是國際紅十字會和紅新月會聯合會以及所有國家紅十字會的年度紀念日。這一天也是紅十字的創始人亨利*杜南的生日。第一次世界大戰給人們帶來了巨大痛苦，戰后捷克斯洛伐克紅十字會首先主動提出舉辦“紅十字休戰日”活動，這次活動向世界宣傳紅十字會的人道思想，增進各國人民之間的友誼與合作，促進世界和平，減少戰爭。這次活動也獲得了國際紅十字會的普遍贊揚和支持。從1961年開始，國際紅十字會和紅新月會聯合協會還會提出當年的世界紅十字日的主題，而各國各地的國家紅十字會則會根據該主題和當地的實際情況來舉辦各種形式的活動。