'I am still alive. That's enough'

Zhang Tiliu was born in 1925. The China Expeditionary Force veteran participated in almost all the major battles in western Yunnan province, including Gaoligong Mountain, Laifeng Mountain and Tengchong.

Zhang's hometown is in Meishan, Sichuan province, but when he joined in the army in 1941, his unit was deployed to Yunnan.

After the war, he decided not to return to Meishan, preferring instead to stay in Tengchong, the place where he had risked his life and where his close comrades lay buried.