Yang Shanjis Memorial Pavilion and Former Residence

　　Yang Shanjis Memorial Pavilion and Former Residence

　　Built in 1958 and located on Fuhai Road, Jiaji Town, Qionghai. Yang Shiji was an early revolutionary activist of our Party, a main founder of the Qiongya Party organization and armed struggle. On September 23, 1927, he heroically sacrificed his life at the age of 27 during the Battle of Yizhaizhai, where he led an armed uprising across Qiongya.

　　Yang Shiji (1900–1927), courtesy name Yifu, was born on February 4, 1900, in Futian Beitong Village, Qionghai, Hainan. In 1916, he studied at Qiongya Middle School and joined the… In 1919, after graduation, he returned to his hometown to work as an elementary school teacher. In the autumn of 1921, he was admitted to the Guangdong Provincial Highway Engineering School. In December 1923, he joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League. He participated in establishing progressive youth groups such as the Qiongya Revolutionary Comrades Association and published periodicals like New Qiongya Review. In 1924, he was sent to the Soviet Union, where he studied successively at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East and the Chinese Section of the Red Army School in Moscow. In December of the same year, he became a member of the Chinese Communist Party.

　　In August 1925, he returned to China. Starting in September, he served as the Propaganda Minister of the Two Guangs District Committee of the Communist Youth League, an Executive Committee Member of the District Committee, Secretary of the Guangzhou Local Committee, and Propaganda Minister. In December, he became the Secretary of the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Youth League. He mobilized youth to support the Eastern and Southern Expeditions of the National Revolutionary Army, developed the League’s organization, trained League cadres, and promoted the youth movement.

　　After the failure of the Great Revolution in 1927, he was sent back to Hainan. In June, he presided over an emergency meeting of the Qiongya District Committee of the CCP, conveyed instructions from the Guangdong District Committee, and decided to transform the District Committee into a Special Committee, establishing a Military Commission and the Headquarters of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Counter-revolutionary Army. He served as Secretary of the Qiongya Special Committee of the CCP, Chairman of the Military Commission, and Representative of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Counter-revolutionary Army. He organized revolutionary armed forces, led peasant armies in attacks on police stations and militia posts in places like Boao Port, fought back against the suppression of the reactionary Kuomintang, and advanced the development of the armed struggle in Qiongya. In September of the same year, together with Wang Wenming and Feng Ping, he organized and led the Qiongya Armed Uprising. On the 23rd, he sacrificed his life in the Battle of Yizhaizhai, Ledong (now part of Qionghai).

　　Yang Shiji (1900～1927)　　 Yang Shiji (1900–1927), courtesy name Yifu, pen name Yang Bai, was a native of Qiongdong (now Qionghai), Hainan. He was an early revolutionary activist of the Chinese Communist Party, a pioneer in the work of the Guangdong Communist Youth League and the youth movement during the Great Revolution period, and one of the founders of the Party organization and revolutionary armed forces in the Hainan region. He tirelessly struggled for the liberation of the Chinese people and died a glorious death in September 1927 at the age of only 27. Nie Rongzhen, a comrade-in-arms of Yang Shiji, praised him, saying: “Comrade Yang Shiji’s short life was one of unwavering loyalty to the revolutionary cause of the Party. He was a good comrade.” Yang Shiji, courtesy name Yifu, pen name Yang Bai. In 190... Details+

Yang Shanjis Memorial Pavilion and Former Residence