Former Site of the Jintong Branch, Jintong Special Branch, and Jintong District Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

Former Site of the Jintong Branch, Jintong Special Branch, and Jintong District Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

The former site of the Jintong Branch, Jintong Special Branch, and Jintong District Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is a classic red tourism attraction.

The former site of the Jintong Branch, Jintong Special Branch, and Jintong District Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is located at Yingmencha, Daqinggoumen, 3 kilometers northwest of Tongxin Village in the central part of Guanghua Town, Tonghua County, and 3 kilometers from the town government seat in Guanghua Village.

On October 27, 1933, following instructions from the Manchurian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Yang Jingyu led the Independent Division of the First Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army across the Huifa River heading south to establish a new anti-Japanese guerrilla zone in southern Manchuria, making Tonghua County an important base for such activities. Thanks to the active organization and extensive mobilization efforts of the anti-Japanese forces, patriotic enthusiasm among the people of Tonghua County against the Japanese puppet regime grew rapidly, leading to the development and expansion of Party organizations and mass-based anti-Japanese groups. In March 1934, Company Commander Park Shihwan of the Independent Division, through organizing and mobilizing local efforts, established the Jintong Branch of the Chinese Communist Party at Yingmencha, Daqinggoumen, Tongxin Village, Guanghua Town (present-day Tonghua County). The branch was led by Secretary Wang Jiatang and had five members. In May of the same year, a branch party member meeting was held, deciding to upgrade the Jintong Branch to the Jintong Special Branch of the Chinese Communist Party. It became a joint branch comprising the Eighth District Branch of the Tonghua County CCP, the Second District Branch of the Jinchuan County CCP, and the Huanren County CCP Branch, with Secretary Han Zhenlin and five members. In June of the same year, the Jintong Special Branch held a party member meeting and upgraded itself to the Jintong District Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, with Secretary Park Shihwan and seven members. By the end of 1934, the Japanese puppet regime fully implemented the "collective village" policy to sever ties between anti-Japanese forces, Party organizations, and the populace. They also used collaborators, spies, traitors, and collaborators in coordination with Japanese garrisons to arrest and kill underground Party members and anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, undermining and dismantling our Party organizations. On May 7, 1935, while Park Shihwan was reorganizing the "Anti-Japanese Association" in the Eighth District of Tonghua County, he was captured by the Japanese garrison and defected, revealing the organizational structure, membership list, and activities of the Eighth District Party organizations in Tonghua County. As a result, the Jintong District Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was destroyed.

(Provided by the Tonghua County Party School of the Chinese Communist Party)

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