Chinese Ambassador to Japan, Wang Yi, attended a ceremony last week in celebration of the 60th anniversary of China's victory in the war of resistance against the Japanese invaders and the world's victory in the war against fascism.

The event was organized by the Association of Chinese Students in Tokyo, Japan. The ambassador delivered a speech entitled "From a hundred years of salvation to a hundred years of revival."

Wang Yi said the Chinese war against the Japanese aggression and the founding of new China were once the important components of the world's national liberation movements. Today, China's peaceful development is an important link for Asian development and the cause of peace for mankind.

China's development and national revival have been always in accordance with the direction of history, the progressive trend of the times and the fundamental interests and desires of the people of all various countries in the world.

Wang Yi proposed his four wishes for the new generation of 100,000 Chinese students in Japan.

First, to enhance the national sense of responsibility and to achieve their own life goals in carrying forward the great cause of building a socialist society with Chinese characteristics.

Second, to broaden their minds with all views and to learn and adapt excellent civilization achievements of other countries and nations.

Third, to show Chinese spirit and safeguard honor and sovereignty of the motherland. Students in Japan are responsible and obligated, through their own efforts, to demonstrate the excellent and profound Chinese culture and the style and features of China's reform and opening to the outside world so as to let the world have a better understanding of China.

Fourth, to actively involve themselves into Sino-Japanese exchanges and make contributions to the healthy and steady development of the relations between the two countries.

The 100,000 Chinese students in Japan are scattered across the country and go deep into various stratums there.

They should become important productive forces for strengthening mutual understanding of the two countries and advancing Sino-Japanese friendship.

It is in the hope that the students can undertake their responsibility of non-governmental friendship to restore the relations of the two nations.

By People's Daily Online