Jinzhong played an important role in the history of the Chinese revolution

Jinzhong, named because it is located in the "Three Jins", the party organization was founded in 1925, which is the area in Shanxi Province where the party was built earlier, the number of party members is large, and the party activities are the most active. In the history of the Chinese revolution, Jinzhong played an extremely important role in the founding of the Party, the workers' and peasants' movement, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation. During the period of the Great Revolution, Jinzhong was the central area for the founding, development, and activities of the Shanxi Party; during the period of the agrarian revolutionary war, Jinzhong was the central area of the mass movement in Shanxi; during the Period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Jinzhong was the birthplace of the anti-Japanese guerrilla war in the Jin-Hebei-Yu Border Region, the birthplace of the Taihang Anti-Japanese Base Area, and even more the command center of the Party's leadership of the War of Resistance Behind Enemy Lines in North China; and in the period of the War of Liberation, the jinzhong campaign was launched on the land of Jinzhong- a famous campaign in which the people's liberation war was fought in a history of flexible use of troops and victory over more with less. After the liberation of the whole territory of Jinzhong, as an old liberated area, Jinzhong became one of the strategic rear bases of the liberation war, making major contributions to the cause of liberation of the whole country and playing an important role.

I. The Period of the Great Revolution

During the Period of the Great Revolution, Jinzhong was the center of the creation, development, and activities of the Shanxi Party. In 1924, Hou Shimin (a native of Pingyao) participated in the formation of the taiyuan branch of the Communist Party of China, the first communist party organization in Shanxi. In June 1925, Zhang Weichen (a native of Qixian County) founded the first party group in Jinzhong, the Taigu Mingxian School Party Group. Subsequently, Jinzhong established a number of party groups and branches earlier in the province. In March 1926, the Yuci branch was established; in April, the Qixian branch was established. In view of the rapid development of the Yuci Party Group organization, in May 1926, with the approval of the Cpc Northern District Executive Committee, the Yuci Local Executive Committee of the CPC was established to lead the Party organization and the workers' movement in the Yuci region, which was the leading core of the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle in Jinzhong.

Under the leadership of the Jinzhong Party organization, the Jinzhong region carried out several huge and far-reaching workers' strike movements, which became the center of the Shanxi workers' and peasants' movement. In July 1926, in order to resist the unreasonable behavior of the capitalists to arbitrarily dismiss the workers and safeguard the vital interests of the workers, the leaders of the Yuci Local Executive Committee of the Communist Party of China launched a strike of the workers of jinhua spinning mill. The movement lasted more than 40 days and was a political strike of a large scale, a long duration and far-reaching influence in the history of the workers' movement in Shanxi and even North China. Cai Hesen once commented: "The real mass struggle under the leadership of the Northern Party began with the railway workers in Shijiazhuang on Zhengtai Road, and developed into the strike strike in Taiyuan after the 'May Thirtieth' and the long struggle of the Yuci Spinning Factory. In March 1927, the Jinzhong Party organization led the workers of the Yijin Weaving Factory in Qixian County to strike, and finally won the victory. This was the first victorious strike struggle under the leadership of the Jinzhong Party organization, and the first victorious workers' strike in the province.

2. The period of the agrarian revolutionary war

In the ten years during the period of the agrarian revolutionary war, 2 county party committees and 1 special committee were successively set up in the Jinzhong region, leading the mass movement of Qixian and Jiexiu to set off a climax, developing more than 2,000 peasant associations and trade union members, and becoming the center of the revolutionary struggle in the province. In July 1927, the Provisional Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China moved from Taiyuan to Qiaojiabao in Qixian County, and the Party's work center in Shanxi shifted from the city to the countryside, and Qiaojiapu Village became the center of the Cpc Shanxi Provisional Provincial Committee to guide the revolutionary movement in the province.

Under the leadership of the CPC Shanxi Provisional Provincial Committee, the Jinzhong Party organization developed rapidly. In August 1927, the QI COUNTY COMMITTEE of the CPC was formally established, and in October the CPC Jiexiu County Committee was established. The Qixian County CPC Committee actively mobilized the peasant masses and organized peasant associations in 96 villages to wage a struggle against local tycoons and bad village chiefs. In October 1933, the Qixian County Party Committee led jia Ling and other victims of 8 villages to carry out a struggle against water bills, forcing the county government to agree to waive the demand for all water bills. The Shanxi Special Committee of the CPC reported the struggle to the CPC Central Committee. The Jiexiu Party organization vigorously organized the masses, developed the members of the workers', peasants' and primary school teachers' federations, and carried out the workers' movement.

After the struggle against the feudal forces under the leadership of the party, a group of active elements among the masses who had the consciousness of struggle and a firm stand joined the party organization and strengthened the ranks of the party. At this time, the number of party members in Qixian County grew to 80 or 90, and 4 districts established party district committees. The speed and scale of the development of party organizations in Qixian County, especially the peasant movement, ranked first in all counties in Shanxi Province.

3. The period of the War of Resistance Against Japan

In 1937, after the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army entered Jinzhong. The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the 129th Division held meetings in Shiquan Town, Heshun County, respectively, to carry out a general mobilization to persist in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in North China, and made specific arrangements for the creation of the Jin-Ji-Yu Anti-Japanese Base Area based on the Taihang Mountains, and Jinzhong became the source of the anti-Japanese guerrilla war in the Jin-Ji-Ji-Yu Border Region and the birthplace of the Taihang Anti-Japanese Base Area. Jinzhong was the command center of the party's leadership of the War of Resistance Behind Enemy Lines in North China, and a number of party, government, and military organs, such as the Northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, were stationed here for a long time to direct the Eighth Route Army's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in North China. Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng, Zuo Quan and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation have left brilliant combat footprints here. By August 1945, the Victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had been achieved, the Northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee had been stationed in Zuoquan for 5 years and 3 months, and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army had been stationed in Zuoquan for 4 years and 9 months, commanding the Eighth Route Army to carry out a series of major battles against the Japanese army.

In November 1937, the headquarters of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army was stationed in Xihetou Village, LiaoXian (present-day Zuoquan County). Here, Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping strategized, commanding the guerrilla war in North China and mobilizing the masses together with local party organizations, establishing anti-Japanese armed forces and anti-Japanese regimes, and igniting the flames of anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare. Liu Bocheng also held 18 guerrilla training classes in Xihetou Village, cultivating a large number of leading cadres for the party. At the same time, together with the local party organizations, they mobilized the masses, established anti-Japanese armed forces and anti-Japanese regimes, and carried out a large-scale strategic development, so that the anti-Japanese flames of independent mountain guerrilla warfare were burned all over the enemy's rear in North China, and a vast battlefield behind the enemy lines in North China was opened up, which constituted the basic pattern of the two battlefields frontal and the rear of the enemy, and made full preparations for the war of resistance against Japan to enter a strategic turning point in the all-round war of resistance. As a result, Xihetou Village became the birthplace of the Jin-Hebei-Yu guerrilla war. Xihetou Village is also a place where several generations of heroes gather, and cadres of the special committees of the three provinces of Jin, Hebei and Henan and cadres of various county party committees gathered here to discuss the great plan for the creation of the Taihang revolutionary base area and the great plan of resisting Japan. Therefore, within the 129th Division and the Jinji-Jiyu Provincial Party Committee, Xihetou Village was called the "Red Capital" of North China.

In August 1940, the Eighth Route Army launched the Hundred Regiments War that shocked China and foreign countries, and Jinzhong was the main battlefield. In July 1941, the Provisional Senate of the Jin-Hebei Luyu Border Region was held in Tongyu, Liaoxian (present-day Zuoquan County), which was a useful attempt and successful application of the Cpc's democratic power in the largest Jinji-Hebei Luyu Anti-Japanese Base Area in Northern China, using the principle of "three three systems" and the method of democratic election.

4. During the War of Liberation

Entering the period of the Liberation War, under the command of Marshal Xu Qianqian, the Jinzhong Campaign launched a famous campaign in the history of the People's Liberation War in which the people's liberation war was flexibly used and the number of victories were won with less. In June 1948, Xu Xiangqian led more than 60,000 troops, mainly local troops, to fight for more than a month and annihilate 100,000 regular Kuomintang troops. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China telegraphed the Battle of Jinzhong to "greatly help the entire war situation of the Liberation War." After the battle, the entire territory of Central Jin was liberated, creating favorable conditions for the capture of Taiyuan.

As an old liberated area, Jinzhong fully supported the national liberation war in all aspects of human, material, and financial resources, and was one of the strategic rear bases of the liberation war, making major contributions to the cause of the liberation of the whole country and playing an important role. The people of Jinzhong fully supported the Shangdang Campaign, cooperated with the main force in the Battle of Fenxiao, and supported the Battle of Zhengtai, the Battle of Linfen, and the Battle of Taiyuan. Especially throughout the Taiyuan Campaign, Jinzhong not only sent a large number of soldiers to the troops, but also provided a large number of materials, equipment and food for the front line. Many Jinzhong cadres rushed to all parts of the country to devote themselves to the cause of national liberation and the construction of new China. In July 1947, when Liu and Deng dajun were marching south, a large number of cadres from Taihang District were dispatched to accompany the army to the south. At a time when the War of Liberation was about to win a national victory, Jinzhong dispatched a large number of cadres to the south and north to undertake the task of taking over the newly liberated areas. After arriving in the newly liberated areas, the cadres transferred from Jinzhong carried forward the spirit of the people in the old areas of arduous struggle, not being afraid of sacrifice, and maintaining close ties with the masses, and made major contributions to the revolution and construction of the newly liberated areas.

5. Jinzhong is the place where many founding fathers lived, fought and strategized

Jinzhong is located at the junction of the Jin-Cha-Ji, Jin-Ji-Yu, and Jin-Sui Anti-Japanese Base Areas, and was the center of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in North China, and many major events in the history of the Chinese revolution were closely related to Jinzhong. According to incomplete statistics, important leaders of the party, state, and army have engaged in revolutionary activities in Jinzhong, mainly including:

Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, Ren Bishi, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai, Liu Bocheng, Lin Biao, He Long, Chen Yi, Luo Ronghuan, Xu Xiangqian, Nie Rongzhen, Zhang Hao, Peng Zhen, Huang Kecheng, Chen Geng, Luo Ruiqing, Wang Shusheng, Bo Yibo, Li Xuefeng, Yang Xiufeng, Li Da, Zhang Zongxun, Wang Zhen, Peng Shaohui, Lü Zhengcao, Zhou Shidi, Chen Xilian, Chen Shiyu, Wang Xinting, Yang Yong, etc., as well as Hu Yaobang, Liu Huaqing, Teng Daiyuan, Yang Lisan, Li Desheng, Qin Jiwei, etc.

Source: Jinzhong News Network