Site of the Former Headquarters of the Min-Gan Military District

Site of the Former Headquarters of the Min-Gan Military District

The site of the former headquarters of the Min-Gan Military District is located at No. 50, Likeng Village, Likeng Township, Anyuan County, Ninghua.

In late May 1934, five counties—Ninghua, Pengpai (now Anyuan Township, Ninghua County), Quanshang (now Quanshang Town, Ninghua County), Qingliu, and Guiding (now Mingxi County)—were transferred from the jurisdiction of the Fujian Soviet Government to that of the Min-Gan Soviet Government. On May 16, the county seat of Jianning fell into enemy hands, endangering the safety of the Min-Gan Soviet Government’s office in Jianning.

In June 1934, Shao Shiping, Secretary of the Min-Gan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Chairman of the Min-Gan Soviet Government, and Commander and Political Commissar of the Min-Gan Military District, led the government offices to relocate from Dushang Township, Yijia District, Jianning County (now Dushang Village, Yijia Township, Jianning County) to Likeng Township, Anyuan District, Pengpai County (now Likeng Village, Anyuan Township, Ninghua County). The headquarters of the Min-Gan Military District was established there. In August, the offices of the Min-Gan Soviet Government were relocated separately to Ninghua County, Quanshang, and Pengpai. They withdrew from Ninghua County in March 1935. During this period, the Ninghua Soviet Area became the center of the Min-Gan Soviet Government’s revolutionary struggle in its later phase. While stationed in the Ninghua Soviet Area, the Min-Gan Soviet Government directed the Red Army forces and local militias under its command to resist attacks along the Ninghua–Qingliu–Guiding–Jianning–Taining front by four enemy divisions—the 8th, 52nd, 80th, and 88th Divisions—effectively covering the strategic retreat of the Central Red Army's main forces.

The former site of the Min-Gan Military District Headquarters was originally a civilian residence, facing north and covering an area of 1,122 square meters. It was a single-entry wooden and mixed-structure building, with faint remnants of the words “Min-Gan Military District Headquarters” still visible above the doorway. On New Year’s Eve 2010, a fire caused by the traditional lighting of "suihuo" (New Year’s fire) destroyed the former headquarters site.

Source: Party History Research Office of the Sanming Municipal Committee