Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter attended the fourth China Zhijiang International Peace and Culture Festival in central China's Hunan Province Tuesday, commemorating the victory of the war against Japanese aggression and of the world anti-fascist war 65 years ago.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter addresses the opening ceremony of the 4th China Zhijiang International Peace Culture Festival in Zhijiang County, central China's Hunan Province, Sept. 7, 2010. More than 300 guests from all over the world were invited to the festival, one of the celebration activity for the 65th anniversary of the Japanese surrendering to China and the end of the worldwide Anti-Fascism War. Zhijiang County was the place where Japanese invaders surrendered to China in August, 1945. [Ming Xing/Xinhua]

The two-day festival was held in Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County where Japanese aggressors surrendered.

Zhijiang is the most suitable place to celebrate the hard-earned peace. And the event sent an important message of peace and cultural exchanges, said Carter.

A statue of U.S. General Claire Lee Chenault, who established the U.S. "Flying Tigers" air squadron that fought in the Second World War, was also unveiled in Zhijiang on Tuesday.

The American Volunteer Group, nicknamed the Flying Tigers by the Chinese for their courage, was formed in 1941 under the leadership of U.S. General Chenault to help China drive out invading Japanese troops.