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Former Site of Hui'ai Hospital in Lianzhou

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Within the campus of Lianzhou No. 2 Middle School at Shuangxi Mountain stands a quiet two-story Western-style building from the 19th century, constructed with blue bricks and tiles. This is the former site of Hui'ai Hospital, where wounded and sick soldiers of the Red Seventh Army once received treatment. Built in the 22nd year of the Guangxu reign during the Qing Dynasty (1896), it was part of a Christian complex (including the men’s hospital, women’s hospital, chapel, and Christian school) established by the American Presbyterian Church on the scenic Shuangxi Mountain in Lianzhou...

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The Former Site of Hui'ai Hospital in Lianzhou is a cultural relic protection unit of Guangdong Province.

Within the campus of Lianzhou No. 2 Middle School at Shuangxi Mountain stands a quiet two-story Western-style building from the 19th century, constructed with blue bricks and tiles. This is the former site of Hui'ai Hospital, where wounded and sick soldiers of the Red Seventh Army once received treatment. Built in the 22nd year of the Guangxu reign during the Qing Dynasty (1896), it was one of the Christian buildings (including the men’s hospital, women’s hospital, chapel, and Christian school) constructed by the American Presbyterian Church on the scenic Shuangxi Mountain in Lianzhou, now over a hundred years old. Due to the passage of time, more than ten old structures of the original Hui'ai Hospital have been demolished and rebuilt, leaving only this building preserved as a memorial (originally the men’s hospital). It covers an area of 278.77 square meters, stands 10.2 meters high, and measures 25.12 meters in length and 10.9 meters in width. The ground floor, upper floor, and corridors are all floored with wooden planks, surrounded by classic wooden railings. The top floor is labeled as 0. In August 1996, the Lianzhou Municipal Government approved the designation of the “Hui'ai Hospital—Treatment Site for Red Seventh Army Wounded and Sick Soldiers” as a municipal (county-level) revolutionary cultural relic protection unit. In September 1997, under the direction of the Bureau of Culture and the Museum, a comprehensive renovation was carried out. In 2008, it was elevated to a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit. On November 8, 2008, the General Office of the People's Government of Guangdong Province issued the "Notice on the Announcement of the Fifth Batch of Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relic Protection Units," listing the former site of Hui'ai Hospital as a Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relic Protection Unit.