After the founding of New China, the Communist Party of China Zhangren upheld the lofty ideal of liberating all mankind and vowed to sweep away all the sludge and muddy waters of the old society. On May 25, 1949, Shanghai was liberated, and the work of liberating prostitutes in Shanghai was gradually carried out.
At that time, when Shanghai was just liberated, the Kuomintang left a large number of spies to sabotage, plus some silver dollar dealers to disrupt the financial market, and enemy planes came to bomb from time to time, so the anti-prostitution movement in Shanghai did not apply one size fits all like other cities, but gradually adopted restrictive measures, the time was ripe, all of them were sheltered and disciplined, and finally returned to society.
Sisters who stood up again
Regarding the transformation of prostitutes in Shanghai, there is also a small story that happened to Marshal Chen Yi, who was then the mayor of Shanghai, watching a play under the stage, and his guards were nearby to guard him, when suddenly a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl was pulling his clothes and asked in a Shanghainese dialect, "One night, two yuan, ah want?" The young man broke free and shouted, "What are you doing?" Marshal Chen Yi asked the young man after hearing it, and said indignantly: Scared away today, tomorrow I will return to my old business, for two dollars, sad! Later, it was also Marshal Chen Yi who specially approved the withdrawal of a part of the medicines from the volunteers transported to the front line to treat these reformed prostitutes, so that these prostitutes deeply felt that only the Communist Party regarded them as people!
After the People's Liberation Army entered Shanghai, it began to carry out the transformation of a huge number of public and private prostitutes in Shanghai, first counting the number of people, and soon after the newly established Shanghai People's Court issued legal provisions, which had a legal basis for the transformation of public and private prostitutes.
Close down brothels and arrest brothel owners in accordance with the law
After the large amount of publicity in the early stage, the social atmosphere gradually improved, and the number of brothels and prostitutes was greatly reduced, after which the Public Security Bureau promulgated the provisional regulations on brothels, and the news of the closure of brothels in other places spread to Shanghai, and the business of brothels in Shanghai was even more light.
The founding of New China is to eradicate all systems of oppression. For these prostitutes who have closed their jobs or wish to change their jobs, the government has funded the organization of these prostitutes to participate in labor studies, help them to read and learn production techniques, and let them understand the reasons for degeneration ideologically, so that they can become a new person in society.
Farewell to the sisters who jumped out of the fire pit, the staff had a cordial conversation with the host sisters
For those who are homeless and homeless, the people's government prepared to build the Shanghai Women's Re-education Through Labor Institute, dispatched carefully selected women comrades, and gave these homeless women the kind of considerate care of their relatives, a considerable number of these homeless prostitutes had drug abuse habits, most of them had syphilis or other sexually transmitted diseases, at that time, in the women's labor re-education centers, specially sent sexually transmitted disease specialists and internal medicine doctors to treat these homeless prostitutes, these actions made the prostitutes in the old society moved to tears, They all said that they would be a new social newcomer after they went out.
Sisters who work and are treated by medical staff
With the successful work experience in the early stage, coupled with the stabilization of the external environment, the battle against prostitution in Shanghai began. On November 13, 1951, the fierce campaign against prostitution was fought in Shanghai, and the remaining brothels were immediately closed, taking in public and private prostitutes, and centrally examining various "brothel owners" and "old bustards" and dealing with them according to the law according to the crimes committed.
Shanghai's anti-prostitution movement eradicated the system of prostitution in a short period of time, which attracted the attention of all countries in the world, and as many as 30 foreign guests came to visit more than 30 countries and regions, and these foreign guests said that New China has truly achieved the phrase "the new society turns ghosts into people".