Site of the Sino-Communist Negotiations in Fujian

Site of the Sino-Communist Negotiations in Fujian

The Site of the Sino-Communist Negotiations in Fujian is a classic red tourism destination.

The Site of the Sino-Communist Negotiations in Fujian is located at No. 236 Shengli Road, Gongchen Subdistrict, Licheng District, Putian City.

In July 1937, following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Fujian CCP Committee contacted the local KMT authorities through various channels to propose negotiations for a united anti-Japanese front. On August 12, the Fujian CCP Committee, under the name of the First Column Command of the Seventh Route Army of the Fujian Anti-Japanese Salvation Volunteer Army, sent a letter to the KMT authorities in Putian via the Putian Daily, proposing Sino-Communist negotiations and a united front against Japan. On August 18, the Putian Daily published the content of the CCP’s negotiation initiative; on August 20, the newspaper also published a statement by Huang Shihao, the KMT instructor of Putian County, in which he expressed acceptance of the CCP’s proposal and urged the CCP to send representatives for discussions promptly. After the KMT authorities’ public agreement to negotiate was published in the newspaper, in late August, the Fujian CCP Committee sent negotiator Yang Caiheng to hold two rounds of negotiations with KMT instructor Huang Shihao in the Zhongshan Hall auditorium of the KMT county party headquarters. The two sides reached an agreement on August 26 to cooperate against Japan, incorporating the Fujian Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army into two regular companies of the National Revolutionary Army. In early September, Liu Tujun, Secretary of the Fujian CCP Committee, personally went to Putian County to conduct a third round of negotiations with Xia Taosheng, the KMT county magistrate, regarding the training location and safety guarantees for the Fujian Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army. An agreement was reached, thus achieving the second instance of Sino-Communist cooperation in the Fujian region. Subsequently, the Fujian Red Army guerrilla forces were reorganized into the Independent Battalion of the 80th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, with Liu Tujun as battalion commander and Yang Caiheng as deputy commander. The unit was stationed at Guanghua Temple.

The Site of the Sino-Communist Negotiations in Fujian was originally the Zhongshan Hall auditorium of the KMT Putian County Party Headquarters, which has since been rebuilt as the office building of the Licheng District government.

Source: Party History Research Office of the Putian Municipal Committee

Gongchen Subdistrict: Gongchen Subdistrict is located in Licheng District, Putian City, Fujian Province, covering an area of 29.8 square kilometers with a total population of 41,000. It administers 5 neighborhood committees and 7 administrative villages.

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