Former Residence of Luo Weiqiang

Former Residence of Luo Weiqiang

The former residence of Luo Weiqiang is located in Tianxin Natural Village, Daba Village, Dongshui Town, Heping County.

Luo Weiqiang, a native of Daba Village, Dongshui Town, was born in October 1917. In May 1939, he joined the Chinese Communist Party. In June, he served as an instructor at the county’s “Cadre Training Class for Wartime,” later becoming a district officer at the Pengzhai District Office. In November, he successively served as the Propaganda Minister and Organization Minister of the Heping County Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. In September 1941, he went to study at the Guangdong Provincial College of Arts and Sciences in Shaoguan. After the “Guangdong North Provincial Committee Incident” of the CCP, he moved to Guilin and Liuzhou in Guangxi. In June 1944, he began working at the Liuzhou Daily. After the Japanese occupation of Liuzhou, he engaged in anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare in northern Guangxi. After the victory of the War of Resistance, he assisted Li Jiarén (who later became Vice Governor after the liberation) in Guangzhou. In the summer of 1946, he followed Li Jiarén to Hong Kong and served as a special commissioner of the New Territories District Party Committee of Hong Kong. The following spring, he collaborated with fellow CCP member Huang Kefu and others to publish the magazine “Heping Gonglun” (Peace Forum), calling for opposition to the civil war, advocating democracy, and criticizing the crimes of the Kuomintang rulers in the county. In March 1948, he was ordered to return from Hong Kong to the Jiulian Mountain guerrilla zone to participate in leadership work. In July of the same year, he was appointed Political Commissar of the Sixth Regiment of the Second Detachment of the Guangdong-Gan Border Area and Secretary of the He-Dong Sub-Working Committee of the CCP. In January 1949, he became the County Magistrate of Lianhe County People’s Government and Secretary of the Lianhe County Working Committee of the CCP. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he held various positions including Manager of the Dongjiang Branch of the Southern People’s Bank, Deputy Director of the Finance and Economics Committee of the Dongjiang Regional Committee and President of the Dongjiang Central Branch of the People’s Bank, and Director of the Office of the Guangdong Branch of the People’s Bank. In April 1954, he was transferred to serve as Deputy Factory Director of the Jinan No. 2 Machine Tool Plant, later becoming Factory Director of the Zhangjiadian Grinding Wheel Plant. After November 1956, he held successive positions such as Section Chief, Deputy Director, Director of the Construction Bureau, and Party Group Secretary and Chairman of the Mechanical Equipment Import and Export Corporation under the First Machinery Industry Ministry of the Central Government. He passed away in Beijing in September 1981 at the age of 63.

This former residence was originally built during the Qing Dynasty. It faces northeast and is situated southwest, with a total width of 50 meters and a depth of 24 meters, covering a construction area of 1,200 square meters. It features a hall-and-wing style layout with three courtyards, four wings, and two corner towers. The structure is made of earth, wood, brick, and tile, with a flush gable roof. The wing rooms have hip-and-gable roofs, with stepped and projecting eaves using dentil-patterned bricks, gray tile roofing, ridge tiles stacked on edge, and carved floral wooden eave boards. The walls bear load-bearing purlins, with lime-compacted earthen walls coated with a layer of lime plaster. The interior floors are paved with rectangular bricks.

In January 2012, it was included in the Heping County Register of Immovable Cultural Heritage Sites.

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