Shuikoushan Lead-Zinc Mining and Smelting Site

Shuikoushan Lead-Zinc Mining and Smelting Site

The Shuikoushan Lead-Zinc Mining and Smelting Site is a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit.

The Shuikoushan Lead-Zinc Mining and Smelting Site is located in Songbai Town and Shuikoushan Subdistrict of Changning City. Its history dates back to the Han Dynasty and continues to the present day, covering an area of 120 hectares. The site mainly consists of 19 above-ground and underground relics. The above-ground relics include industrial and revolutionary remains. The industrial relics consist of: the Longwangshan Ore Mining and Dressing Site, the Early Buildings of Shuikoushan No. 3 Smelter, the Former Site of the Shuikoushan Lead-Zinc Mine Administration Office, the Former Site of the Red Auditorium, the Shuikoushan Lead-Zinc Mine Office Building, the Early Residential Complex of Shuikoushan Lead-Zinc Mine, the Former Site of the Experts' Building of Shuikoushan Lead-Zinc Mine, the Former Site of the Shuikoushan Lead-Zinc Mine Workers' Hospital, the Former Site of the Lead-Zinc Mine Theater, the Former Site of the Lead-Zinc Mine Workers' Barbershop; the revolutionary relics include: the Former Site of Kanghannya Restaurant, the Former Site of the Shuikoushan Workers' Backbone Meeting, the Former Site of the Shuikoushan Workers' Secret Gathering, the Former Site of the Founding Meeting of the Shuikoushan Workers' Club – Kangjia Stage, and the Former Residence of Liu Yaqiu. The underground relics mainly include: the Laoyachao Smelting Site, Shuikoushan Lead-Zinc Mine Shafts No. 2 and No. 5, and the Incline Shaft (Yiku Long). The Shuikoushan Lead-Zinc Mine is a historically verified thousand-year-old mining and smelting site, whose “state-run history” is unique in the history of lead-zinc mining and smelting in China. Its smelting technology represented the leading level of China’s lead-zinc mining industry in various periods. The Shuikoushan Lead-Zinc Mine was also an early workers’ movement base personally initiated by Mao Zedong during the Great Revolution. In 1922, Jiang Xianyun and Xie Huaide established the Shuikoushan Workers’ Club at the Kangjia Stage and held the sensational Shuikoushan Workers’ Movement Strike, which triggered the first climax of the Chinese workers’ movement. It gave rise to a group of veteran proletarian revolutionaries such as Song Qiaosheng. Later, eight hundred miners went up to Jinggangshan and became the backbone of the Red Army in the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base.

Further Reading:

· Seventh Batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units