BEIJING, Aug. 20 -- On the 69th anniversary of winning the war against Japanese aggression Friday, Chinese ambassador to Malaysia Huang Huikang went to the city of lpoh, Perak state of Malaysia to visit 97-year-old heroic machinist Huang Tiehun.

Thousands of overseas Chinese machinists from southeast Asian countries, led by Tan Kah Kee, a well-known patriotic overseas Chinese leader, offered assistance to the war against Japanese invaders from 1937 to 1945. More than 1,000 of these overseas Chinese devoted their lives.

Huang Huikang said to the heroic machinist the Chinese government and the Chinese people will always remember their heroic deeds and immortal feats of risking their lives for delivery of bulk strategic materials on the Yunnan Burma Road, a significant project as China’s important connection to the outside under Japan imperialists’ blockade.

“Their great spirit should be inherited and carried on. We should cherish hard-won peace and resolutely oppose restoration of militarism,” said the ambassador.