1931September 2 1 day, General Ji Hongchang, who was determined to resist Japan, was forced to step down by Chiang Kai-shek and went abroad to "inspect the industry". When the ship arrived in the United States, Ji Hongchang was stimulated by one emergency after another. For example, the first-class hotels there don't accept China people, but they worship Japanese people. Once, Ji Hongchang wanted to send clothes to China, but the post office staff actually said that there was no China in the world. Ji Hongchang was so angry that he was about to have a fit. The accompanying embassy counselor advised: "Why didn't you say you were Japanese? As long as you say you are Japanese, you can be treated with courtesy. " Ji Hongchang immediately angered: "You think China people are humiliated, but I think China people are glorious!" In order to protest against imperialism's discrimination against the people of China and safeguard national dignity, he found a wooden sign and carefully wrote on it in English: "I'm from China!"

In foreign countries, Ji Hongchang exposed various crimes of Japanese aggression against China with facts through interviews with reporters, and rebuked Britain for conniving at Japanese aggression against China and Chiang Kai-shek's ugly act of compromising with Japan. When Ji Hongchang was in Germany, he repeatedly asked to visit the Soviet Union, but was made difficult by the embassy of Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary government and refused to issue a visa. In addition to grief and indignation, Ji Hongchang scribbled: "I am thirsty for the blood of a better era, but I am hungry for that stone. Return my life and restore my China. "