Site of the 19th Route Army's Anti-Japanese War Resistance

Site of the 19th Route Army's Anti-Japanese War Resistance

The Site of the 19th Route Army's Anti-Japanese War Resistance is a cultural tourism attraction and a base for patriotic education.

On the night of January 28, 1932, the Japanese Marine Corps attacked Zhabei in Shanghai. Despite Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government order not to resist, the soldiers of the 19th Route Army, tasked with defending Songhu, rose up to fight. The headquarters of the 19th Route Army was originally stationed in Nanjing. To combat the Japanese invasion, Commander-in-Chief Jiang Guangnai and Army Commander Cai Tingkai decided to move the headquarters to Fan Village in Zhenru Town to personally direct the resistance. The 19th Route Army wrote a glorious chapter in the "January 28th" Battle of Songhu with their blood, dealing a heavy blow to the enemy and forcing the Japanese invaders to replace their commanders four times. Patriotic figures Soong Ching-ling and He Xiangning, regardless of personal safety, went to the front lines to comfort the resisting soldiers. Under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, over 40,000 workers from 17 Japanese-owned cotton mills in western Shanghai launched a massive anti-Japanese strike, making the area the center of the city’s labor resistance and earning it the name “Red Western Shanghai.” Fan Village, named after a villa built there in 1920 by a man from Guangdong named Fan Xiaoyuan, was destroyed by Japanese artillery fire during the “August 13th” Battle of Songhu in 1937.

Address: Chezhan Xincun, Taopu Road

Postal Code: 200331

Phone: 52850517

Fax: 52850517

Opening Hours: All day

Public Transport: Routes 01, 106, 966, 944 to Chezhan Xincun Station