Former Site of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Strike Committee

Former Site of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Strike Committee

The former site of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Strike Committee is a cultural relic protection unit of Guangdong Province and a classic red tourism destination.

The former site of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Strike Committee is located at No. 1 Dongyuan Heng Road, Yuexiu South, Guangzhou.

In 1925, in protest against the Shanghai “May 30th” Massacre carried out by imperialism, a massive Guangdong-Hong Kong Strike broke out under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, shaking both China and the world. Striking workers cleared away the weeds and debris from Dongyuan, building simple shelters covered with palm leaves and bamboo. Dongyuan became the headquarters of the world’s longest strike—the Guangdong-Hong Kong Strike. Hanging at the entrance of Dongyuan were two large plaques inscribed with “Guangdong-Hong Kong Strike Committee of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions” and “Headquarters of the Picket Corps of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Strike Committee of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.” Su Zhaozheng served as the chairman, with He Yaoquan and others as vice-chairmen. Liao Zhongkai, Deng Zhongxia, and Huang Ping were appointed as advisors. The strike committee included various offices such as the Executive Bureau, Legal Affairs Bureau, Audit Bureau, Joint Trial Office, Finance and Economics Committee, prison, hospital, and school. The strike lasted an unprecedented 16 months, paralyzing Hong Kong and delivering a heavy blow to British imperialism—an event unparalleled in the history of the Chinese labor movement and rare even in global labor history.

Dongyuan was originally built in the late Qing Dynasty as the garden villa of Li Jun, the then Viceroy of the Guangdong Navy, covering an area of 25,000 square meters. It was divided into front and rear sections. The front section featured a main southern gate with a stone-and-timber arched gatehouse about 8 meters high, bearing the inscription “Dongyuan” (East Garden) handwritten by Li Jun. The central part of the gatehouse was a 40-meter-wide hall, flanked by two round archways, each leading to a small room that served as the duty office for the strike committee’s picket corps. About 50 meters into the garden stood a lotus pond. On the east and west sides of the pond were octagonal pavilions—the eastern one serving as the headquarters of the picket corps, and the western one as the Joint Trial Office. Directly facing the pond was a two-story Western-style brick-and-timber house called the “Red Building.” The ground floor was used as a hall for the picket corps, while the second floor housed the dormitory for the model squad of the corps. The rear section contained a 1,000-square-meter pond, with a small stream flowing in from the west. Spanning the stream were two double-story wooden bridges adorned with carved beams and painted rafters, giving them an antique charm. To the west was a 700-square-meter training pavilion for the strike committee. As the strike movement progressed, four large palm-leaf sheds were erected to the north to serve as offices and a makeshift prison for detainees.

On November 6, 1926, imperialism bribed reactionary elements to set fire to Dongyuan, leaving only the gatehouse and a large tree in front of the Red Building.

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the site was used by the Guangdong Automobile Company and the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Trade Unions. In June 1962, the former site of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Strike Committee was designated as a cultural relic protection unit of Guangdong Province by the Guangdong Provincial People’s Government. In 1984, the provincial government funded the reconstruction of the Red Building on its original site and established the Guangdong-Hong Kong Strike Committee Memorial Hall, turning the location into a base for revolutionary tradition education.

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