The former site of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Revolutionary Base lies on
No 62 Zhongyuan Road in the city of Xinxian County (formerly Xinji Town), Henan Province.
Originally, a rich landlord's family
residence stood at the site with seven Chinese buildings containing more than 60
rooms. In 1913 and 1932 respectively, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Branch of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the
Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Provincial Party Committee were quartered
there.
With developments and expansion, by April
1930, the Hubei-Henan Border Revolutionary Base, the Southeast Henan
Revolutionary Base and the Western Anhui Revolutionary Base -- all established
in November 1927 in the Dabie
Mountains -- joined together to
form the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Revolutionary Base. In 1931, the Red Army
occupied Xinji Town of the Xinxian County becoming the political, economic and
cultural center of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Revolutionary Base.
In May 1931, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border
Branch of the Central Committee of the CPC and the Revolutionary Military
Commission were founded in Xinji
Town. In July of the same year,
the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Provincial Workers' and Peasants' Democratic
Government was set up in the second Soviet Congress of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui
Border Region in Xinji Town. In November, the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese
Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was founded, and in January 1932, the
Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Provincial Party Committee took shape. The
Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Branch of the Central Committee of the CPC and the
Military Commission remained in Xinji Town for one year
and four months until the defeat of the fourth anti-encirclement struggle of
January 1932 when they left the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Base with the Fourth
Front Army of the Red Army.
The former site of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui
Border Revolutionary Base has been well preserved. The military commission
office, the old residence of Xu Xiangqian, the Provincial Party Committee and
its office, confidential offices of the Branch and Provincial Party Committee,
including the Women's Department of the Provincial Party Committee, as well as
other offices, have all been well maintained.