Situated in Changting County in the west of Fujian Province, Changting Revolutionary Site was
set up during the Second Revolutionary Civil War.
At
the beginning of 1929, under the leadership
of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, the 4th Army of the Chinese Workers'and Peasants'
Red Army fought in Gannan (Southern Jiangxi Province) and Minxi
(Western Fujian Province) after being in the Jinggang Mountains. In March, the
Red Army launched an attack and occupied Changting County and established the first Red
political system in Western
Fujian Province -- the Changting County
Provisional Revolutionary Committee. Until May, the five county areas were
already under the control of the Red Army and, due steady development, by the
second half of 1930, the Central Revolutionary Base was established after the
revolutionary bases in Minxi and Gannan were gradually joined together. Since
the Changting Revolutionary Base was a part of the Minxi Revolutionary Base, it
then became an important component of the Central Revolutionary Base.
The former site of the Changting Revolution
is comprised mainly of the former Provincial Soviet Government site, Gospel
Hospital, Yunxiang Pavilion (Pavilion Held by Clouds), Zhanggeng Villa, China
Christian Church and other such places.
The former site of the Provincial Soviet
Government lies on Zhaozheng Road in Changting County. Covering more than 3,000 square
meters, the entire building is made of wood. At the time of Minguo (the Republic
of China), 1912-1949, it served as the Fujian No 7 Middle School. On March 18, 1932, the first Representative
Assembly of the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers of Fujian Province was held here,
founding the Fujian Provincial Soviet Government. From then on the building
housed offices for the Provincial Soviet Government.
Gospel Hospital is located at the foot of the
Beishan Mountains in Changting County. Originally, it served as a missionary
hospital -- a single-storied building of revolving wood construction. Some of
the wounded soldiers from the August 1st Nanchang Uprising in 1927 were nursed back to
health at the hospital. Mao Zedong also recuperated at Gospel Hospital in 1929. From 1931-1933, the
hospital opened the Central Red Nurses' School and the Central Red Medical School. In addition they procured and
transported medicines and medical equipment for the Red Army. In 1933, renamed
Central Red Hospital, it was moved to Ruijin County, Jiangxi Province.
The Yunxiang Pavilion is in the Wushi Mountains (Mountains Covered with Black
Stones) in Changting
County, close to the
Tingjiang River. It was the site of the Changting
Revolutionary Committee in March 1929, the first government agency in the Minxi
revolutionary Base formed when the 4th Red Army (the 4th Army of the Chinese
Workers' and Peasants' Red Army) entered Fujian Province for the first time.
The Zhanggeng Villa is located on the banks
of the Dongting River in Changting County. The Command and Political Department
were located at this site when the 4th Red Army was stationed in Changting County in 1929. The offices and former residences
of Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Chen Yi and others still remain.
The China Christian Church was the seat of
the Fujian Provincial Party Committee during the Second Revolutionary Civil War.
Zhou Enlai once lived there when he came to Changting County for revolutionary
activities.