Site of the Zunyi Conference
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SITE OF THE ZUNYI CONFERENCE
The Site of the Zunyi Conference is located at No. 80, Hongqi Road, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. In 1955, the Memorial of Zunyi Conference was built here. In 1964, Mao Zedong inscribed the name of the memorial. The site is a two-storeyed wood-and-brick building built in the 1930s. It was originally the private mansion of Bai Huizhang, a warlord and the Commander of the Second Division, No.25 Army of Qian (Guizhou Province) Army. There is a corridor on the first floor, and the floors have colonnades on all sides. The building is 25.75 meters wide, 16.95 meters deep, and 16.95 meters high, and covers an area of 528 square meters. In early January of 1935, the First Army of the Red Army arrived in Zunyi after the Long March. From January 15 to 17, the Central Government held the Extended Conference of the Political Bureau, also called Zunyi Conference, here. It animadverted the Left opportunism in the Fifth Anti Encirclement Campaign and at the beginning of the Long March. It confirmed the military principles of Mao Zedong, and elected him a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau. It replaced the top commanding right of Bo Gu and Li De with the Central Commanding Group consisting of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Wang Jiaxiang. Zunyi Conference is an important event in the history of the Communist Party of China. It saved the party, the Red Army and the revolution. It is a vital turning point in the history. The meeting room of the conference is a rectangular hall on the second floor in the east, covering 27 square meters. In the west wall there are some windows and two closets against the east wall with a clock hanging on it. In the middle of the hall there is a rectangular table surrounded by a circle of foldable chairs. In the building there are the former residences and offices of Zhou Enlai, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Committee, Zhu De, Commander in Chief of the Red Army, Liu Bocheng, General Chief of Staff, Ye Jianying, Chief of Staff, Peng Dehuai, Commander of the Third Corps, and Yang Shangkun, the Commissar, etc.
Zunyi Meeting Site
In January 1935, Chinese Red Army passed through this town during the Long March and the "Zunyi Meeting" of historic significance, was held here by the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party. Located at the center of the old city of Honghuagang district, Zunyi Meeting Site is a two-storey building of brick-wood structure facing the north. It is a typical combination of Chinese and Western style. As the site where Mao Zedong took full membership in the Politburo Standing Committee and where the CCP finally shifted from a strategy favoring large battles and urban insurrection before to rural guerilla warfare, Zunyi had earned its good reputation in Red History. The historic site itself consists of 4 residences used by Party leaders, the former Chinese Soviet Republic State Bank, the old Catholic Church (headquarters of the Red Army's Political Department), and a museum. Situating in the heart of Zunyi's old town, the main site takes a 15-minute walk from the main cluster of buildings to Mao Zedong's residence. The rooms are furnished and decorated as they were in the 1930s: a simple wooden trestle as a bed covered with straw mattress and a cotton quilt. Straw sandals, kerosene oil lamps, wooden umbrellas and charcoal heaters from that time are on display there. Site of the Zunyi Conference This former merchant's home served as the site for the politburo meetings in January 1935. The main leaders of the People's Republic from 1949 to 1997, including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, attended this meeting. Tense tendencious confrontations between supporters of the Soviet and Maoist revolutionary lines ensued. In the end, the Maoist side won out and it was decided that the CCP should continue its flight across China (the Long March) and encourage rural revolt. Museum The museum located across the garden from the site of the Zunyi Conference contains excellent exhibits on the Zunyi Conference, the Long March, and the Chinese Civil War (1927-1937 and 1946-1949) in Guizhou. The pictures and statues are impressive. It is entirely in Chinese when English speaking guides are also available. Surrounding the Zunyi Conference Site are several blocks of "restored" Zunyi buildings. The area was largely destroyed in the early 1980s and reconstructed in a style of the prosperous mercantile Zunyi in the 1930s. Old Town is home to the best shopping and eating establishments. In order to promote "Red Tourism", a zoo at Zunyi Park was torn down in 2006 and replaced by several blocks of traditional-style architecture.
Female Red Army Soldiers of the Zunyi Conference
By Wang Bei The site of the Zunyi Conference, a meeting of Communist Party of China (CPC) members, has been a famous tourist attraction in southwest China's Guizhou Province since January 1935, during the Long March (1934-1936). Mao Zedong (1893-1976) took command of the military and became the leader of the Communist Party after the conference, which has long been branded as a turning point in the history of the Party. Due to an increasing number of visitors from across the country descending on the revolutionary memorial site, more college students have volunteered to act as interpreters in recent years, hoping to spread the positive spirit of the historical Party members to tourists. Zhang Yan, one of these interpreters said that she began taking part in the training sessions about the Party lectures in early April this year and has a good understanding of the whole period of history around the Zunyi Conference. Chen Shougang, a 59-year-old researcher, has made great efforts to record the stories of the women in this period of history in China. Chen stated, "When I was young, I always heard of these stories from the elderly veteran revolutionaries. From then on, I hoped to do something to commemorate the magnificent journey." In order to uncover more stories of female Red Army members, Chen started to revisit the Long March in 2011. Chen said he has visited around 58 Red Army veterans over 90 over the course of the route. Moreover, he has toured a total of 13 revolutionary memorial museums while collecting more than 100 books about the Central Red Army, according to Chen. After visiting these female Red Army veterans, Chen said that they were exceptionally tough during the Long March for bravely overcoming so many mental and physical difficulties. In 2014, Chen's book about 30 female Red Army soldiers was published. From March 2015, Chen actively went to enterprises, colleges and communities to promote these excellent women's inspirational stories.
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1 Tourists still favored traditional spots, such as Huangguoshu Waterfall, the ancient town of Zhenyuan, the Seven Holes of Libo, Miao Village, Mount Fanjing, Chishui, and the Site of the Zunyi Conference.
2 The site of the Zunyi Conference is located at No.80, Hongqi Road, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. In 1955, the Memorial of Zunyi Conference was built here. In 1964, Mao Zedong inscribed the name of the memorial.
3 The photo shows the historical site of the Zunyi Conference in Zunyi City, southwest China's Guizhou Province. The Zunyi Conference was held in January 1935, since when Mao Zedong took over military command and become the leader of the Communist Party.