Martyrs' Memorial Hall of Wang Jie

Martyrs' Memorial Hall of Wang Jie

The Martyrs' Memorial Hall of Wang Jie serves as a base for patriotic education and national defense education.

The Wang Jie Memorial Hall was primarily built to commemorate Comrade Wang Jie, a good soldier of Chairman Mao. On July 14, 1965, another hero of our time like Dong Cunrui and Huang Jiguang, and a great communist fighter like Lei Feng — Comrade Wang Jie — was organizing a live demolition training session for militia members when an 0 package accidentally 0. To protect the 12 militia members and cadres present, he fearlessly threw himself toward the blast site and sacrificed his life heroically at the young age of 23, composing a stirring anthem of the “fear neither hardship nor death” spirit.

In 2009, Wang Jie was honored as one of the “100 Figures Who Moved China Since the Founding of New China,” one of the “100 Advanced Exemplary Figures Who Made Significant Contributions and Had Major Influence on National Defense and Military Construction After the Founding of New China,” and one of the “100 Heroic Figures from Shandong Province Who Made Outstanding Contributions to the Founding and Construction of New China.”