Overseas Chinese in Myanmar on Saturday marked the 60th anniversary of the victory of the war of resistance against Japanese aggression by paying tributes to fallen heroes of the Chinese Expeditionary Forces who fought in the Myanmar battlefield as part of the world's Anti-Fascist War.

Hundreds of representatives from associations of overseas Chinese in the country laid baskets of flowers at a stone tablet erected in memorial of the Chinese expeditionary forces in central Myanmar's Tounggoo, about 280 kilometers north of Yangon.

The respect-paying ceremony was also attended by Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Li Jinjun and other embassy officials as well as local Chinese residents and representatives of Chinese companies doing businesses in Myanmar.

Li said that the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the victory of the war of resistance against Japanese aggression and world's anti-fascist war is to express the highest respects to the artyrs of these wars and express the firm belief of never forgetting the past, cherishing peace and safeguarding peace.

Speakers from participants called for taking the bitter experiences to strive for preventing the revival of Japanese militarism which once brought destructive disaster to human being.

The stone tablet in memorial of the Chinese expeditionary forces was originally set up inside a school compound in the post-war period in 1951 but was later shifted out with the permission of the Myanmar government in 1997.

The 100,000-strong Chinese expeditionary army, under the strategic plan of the then Allied Forces, began in 1942 involving in the fight against Japanese intruding troops in the Myanmar battlefield.

Finally, the Myanmar troops and people, under the coordination of the Chinese expeditionary forces and the allied forces as well as those from other sides, drove out the Japanese intruding troops in 1945.

As a follow-up, Myanmar people continued to struggle until regaining its independence in 1948.

Source: Xinhua