Qixing Lazi Anti-Japanese Allied Forces Site

Qixing Lazi Anti-Japanese Allied Forces Site

The Qixing Lazi Anti-Japanese Allied Forces Site is a cultural tourism attraction.

Among the many Anti-Japanese Allied Forces bases in Heilongjiang Province, Qixing Peak was once one of the largest logistical bases due to its high mountains, dense forests, presence of tigers and wolves, and its remote location. In May 1936, to sustain prolonged resistance against Japan, the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces established secret camps, an arms factory, and a uniform-making workshop at Qixing Lazi, arming our resistance troops and making outstanding contributions to the anti-Japanese struggle in Northeast China. There are currently eight caves on the site; weapons used by the Allied Forces soldiers, sewing machine heads, and some daily necessities have been discovered inside these caves and are now preserved in the Heilongjiang Provincial Museum. The cave ruins are well-preserved, and at the foot of the northern slope of Qixing Peak, there are memorial steles commemorating the sacrifice sites of anti-Japanese heroes Jin Gen and Xu Guanghai.

Revolutionary forces such as the Sixth, Eighth, and Eleventh Armies of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, along with numerous revolutionaries including Li Zhaolin and Chen Lei, were active here, leaving behind many moving patriotic battle stories. In the autumn of 1936, Qi Zhizhong, commander of the Eleventh Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, established the “Qixing Lazi Arms Factory” here, capable of manufacturing pistols, machine guns, submachine guns, and hand grenades. A uniform workshop and school were also set up, arming our troops and making significant contributions to the anti-Japanese struggle in the northeast. In the winter of 1937, Jin Gen, political director of the First Division of the Eighth Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, was tragically killed by traitors in the mountains of Qixing Lazi at the age of 36 during intensified Japanese attacks on the Allied Forces. The military camps and arms factory of that time were burned down by the Japanese, leaving only eight stone caves under the cliff. Weapons, sewing machine heads, and some daily necessities used by the soldiers were found in the caves and are now preserved in the Heilongjiang Provincial Museum. The cave ruins remain intact. A poem commemorating the martyrs of the resistance is engraved on Qixing Peak: “Eighty brave soldiers climbed the cliffs, fighting day and night at the mountain pass. They repelled three thousand invaders, and the martyrs’ blood dyed Qixing red. Bones stand tall reaching the sky, tears shed on green ridges honor the spirits.” This was inscribed in 1981 by veteran Anti-Japanese Allied Forces soldier Li Min (former Vice Chairwoman of the Heilongjiang Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, Director of the Provincial Ethnic Affairs Commission, and Vice Chairwoman of the Fifth and Sixth Heilongjiang Provincial Political Consultative Conferences) during her visit to the mountain in memory of the anti-Japanese martyrs. At the foot of the northern slope of Qixing Peak, next to a small natural rocky outcrop halfway up the mountain, two memorial steles were erected in 2003 to commemorate the heroic sacrifices of Xu Guanghai, commander of the First Division of the Sixth Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, and Jin Gen, political director of the Eighth Army, who fought bravely and died here during the War of Resistance. On the stone walls on both sides of the steles are inscriptions reading “Xu Guanghai Martyr’s Sacrifice Site” and “Jin Gen Martyr’s Sacrifice Site.”

Address: Northern slope of Qixing Peak at the junction of Huanan County, Jixian County, and Shuangyashan City