Nanyang mechanic Anti Japanese monument

Nanyang mechanic Anti Japanese monument is located on the road about one kilometer south of Taihua temple. It was completed on July 7, 1989. The stele is 9 meters high and covered with marble. The base of the stele is engraved with the four words "chizi meritorious service". On the top of the stele is a commemorative medal for the honor of Nanqiao machinist of that year. Towering monument stands among the pines and cypresses. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese war in 1937, more than 3200 overseas Chinese mechanics living in Singapore, Malaysia and other countries responded to the call of the overseas Chinese leader Tan Kah Kee and returned to China in batches to repair the Yunnan Burma Road and transport International Anti Japanese materials. More than 1000 people died and made outstanding contributions to the victory of the Anti Japanese war. In order to make future generations remember and remember this glorious history of patriotic overseas Chinese forever, the Yunnan provincial Party committee and Yunnan Provincial People's government raised funds to build this monument. In Xishan Forest Park in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, stands a "Nanyang overseas Chinese mechanic Anti Japanese monument" made of white marble; in Yishan cemetery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, there is also a "Nanyang overseas Chinese mechanic monument" made of granite. These two monuments, built in different countries and separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, commemorate the same historical event: 66 years ago, the "Nanyang overseas Chinese mechanic service group" composed of 3200 Chinese children from Malaysia and Singapore went to the front line of China's Anti Japanese War and drove to the Yunnan Burma highway to repair cars and transport military supplies. This is the witness of the overseas red blood serving the country, the chain formed by the blood and life of two countries and one nation, and the origin of the friendship between Ma Xing and Yunnan, China. In 1937, China's Anti Japanese war broke out, and in 1939, the Japanese completely blocked China's maritime traffic, and the Yunnan Myanmar highway became the only international transportation artery in China. At that time, there was a lack of vehicles on the dangerous roads, and even less technicians to drive and repair vehicles. At the critical moment, Tan Kah Kee, the leader of overseas Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia, called on overseas Chinese to donate money and goods, buy a large number of cars and military supplies, and organized a large number of Chinese children from Southeast Asia to China to undertake all the transportation tasks of the Yunnan Myanmar highway.

Nanyang mechanic Anti Japanese monument

Located about one kilometer south of Taihua temple, it was completed on July 7, 1989. The stele is 9 meters high and covered with marble. The base of the stele is engraved with the word "chizigong". On the top of the stele is a commemorative medal for the honor of Nanqiao machinist of that year. Towering monument stands among the pines and cypresses.

geographical position

Xishan Forest Park, Kunming, Yunnan, China

The stele is 9 meters high and covered with marble. The base of the stele is engraved with the four words "chizi meritorious service". On the top of the stele is a commemorative medal for the honor of Nanqiao machinist of that year. Towering monument stands among the pines and cypresses.

Yishan cemetery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

In Xishan Forest Park in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, stands a "Nanyang overseas Chinese mechanic Anti Japanese monument" made of white marble; in Yishan cemetery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, there is also a "Nanyang overseas Chinese mechanic monument" made of granite. There is also a "Nanyang overseas Chinese mechanic monument" in the outskirts of Mangshi, Yunnan Province.

Monument to the death of overseas Chinese in Penang during the Anti Japanese War

On July 7, 1947, on the hillside at the junction of Shengqi mountain and Heshang mountain, the Penang Relief Association of Malaysia set up a "monument to the compatriots of Penang overseas Chinese who died in the war of resistance against Japanese aggression and died as a permanent memorial to the martyrs of the overseas Chinese who came back to fight and the compatriots who were killed by the Japanese enemy.

Penang is Penang, Malaysia. (Photo by Dong Yuzhen, a scholar living in Singapore)

Commemorative significance

These two monuments, built in different countries and separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, commemorate the same historical event: 66 years ago, the "Nanyang overseas Chinese mechanic service group" composed of 3200 Chinese children from Malaysia and Singapore went to the front line of China's Anti Japanese War and drove to the Yunnan Burma highway to repair cars and transport military supplies. This is the witness of the overseas red blood serving the country, the chain formed by the blood and life of two countries and one nation, and the origin of the friendship between Malaysia and Singapore and Yunnan, China.

The compatriots in Singapore and Malaysia did not forget those mechanics who died for the Anti Japanese war. As early as the end of the Anti Japanese War, they built a monument for them at Yishan cemetery in Kuala Lumpur. After the implementation of China's reform and opening-up policy, the Yunnan provincial government set things right. With the promotion and assistance of Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese headed by Mr. Chen Xiangsheng, nephew of Tan Kah Kee and honorary president of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, the Nanyang overseas Chinese aircraft industry Anti Japanese monument was built with Han Baiyu in Xishan, Kunming, Yunnan Province in 1989.

After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese war in 1937, more than 3200 overseas Chinese mechanics living in Singapore, Malaysia and other countries responded to the call of the overseas Chinese leader Tan Kah Kee and returned to China in batches to repair the Yunnan Burma Road and transport International Anti Japanese materials. More than 1000 people died and made outstanding contributions to the victory of the Anti Japanese war. In order to make future generations remember and remember the glorious history of patriotic overseas Chinese forever, the Yunnan provincial Party committee and Yunnan Provincial People's government raised funds to build this Nanyang overseas Chinese mechanic Anti Japanese monument.

Yunnan Myanmar highway

In 1937, China's Anti Japanese war broke out, and in 1939, the Japanese completely blocked China's maritime traffic, and the Yunnan Myanmar highway became the only international transportation artery in China. At that time, there was a lack of vehicles on the dangerous roads, and even less technicians to drive and repair vehicles. At the critical moment, Tan Kah Kee, the leader of overseas Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia, called on overseas Chinese to donate money and goods, buy a large number of cars and military supplies, and organized a large number of Chinese children from Southeast Asia to China to undertake all the transportation tasks of the Yunnan Myanmar highway.

Up to the victory of the Anti Japanese War, more than 1000 of these 3000 overseas Chinese mechanics had died on this "road of death". More than 1000 of them survived and returned to Malaysia and Singapore, while more than 1000 of them chose to stay in China. In the early days of the founding of the people's Republic of China, these remaining machinists had a short-term glory. However, for a long time, they lived in obscurity in a forgotten corner.

Address: Xishan highway, Xishan District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province

Longitude: 102.625959

Latitude: 24.973636

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