Headquarters of the Huaixiang Uprising

　　The former site of the Huaixiang Uprising Headquarters is located on the campus of Huaixiang Primary School in Huaixiang Town, Xinyi City, Guangdong Province. Huaixiang Primary School was originally named Huaixin Primary School, and its predecessor was Huaixin Academy, founded in the third year of the Xianfeng reign during the Qing Dynasty (1853). The former site of the Huaixiang Uprising Headquarters is situated in the northwest of the school. It is a two-story building with three rooms, constructed with earth, wood, bricks, and tiles, covering an area of 100 square meters.

　　After the counter-revolutionary coups in Shanghai on April 12 and in Guangzhou on April 15, 1927, the reactionary forces brutally suppressed the revolution. In accordance with the spirit of the Nanchang Uprising on August 1 and the CCP Central Committee’s August 7 Meeting, and following the directives of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the CCP, the Xinyi County Committee of the CCP used this location as its headquarters to launch the significant Huaixiang Uprising in western Guangdong on December 15, 1927.

　　On that night, the uprising forces captured the Seventh District Militia Bureau of Xinyi County and the Huaixiang District Office, both located in Huaixiang, and took District Chief Zhou Zhisheng prisoner. They established the Huaixiang District Soviet Government of Xinyi County, proclaimed a revolutionary political program, and implemented a series of revolutionary measures. However, due to the overwhelming disparity in strength between the enemy and the revolutionaries, the uprising forces fought for four days and nights before dispersing and going into hiding. In 1983, the former site of the Huaixiang Uprising Headquarters was designated as a cultural relic protection unit of Xinyi County (now City).