Tianjin Zhongshan Park

　　Tianjin Zhongshan Park has deep ties to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, as it became widely known in the first year of the Republic of China (1912) when Dr. Sun delivered an important speech here. On August 24, at the invitation of Yuan Shikai, Dr. Sun traveled north to discuss national affairs and attended a welcome meeting with local officials and gentry at the park, where he gave an impromptu speech. Dr. Sun Yat-sen gave speeches and inspections here twice. The park was also renamed in his honor.

　　This park, built during the late Qing Dynasty, can be said to have been facilitated by Yuan Shikai. In the late Qing period, patriotic industrialists in Tianjin actively advocated for saving the nation’s weakening strength through national industrial development. To showcase Tianjin’s industrial progress, they constructed an exhibition hall called the “Industrial Promotion Exhibition Hall” and also planned an open public garden named the “Industrial Promotion Fairground.” Yuan Shikai took the opportunity to use the fairground as an example to persuade the Qing court to implement his “New Policies,” thus advancing his political career. At that time, the park displayed many Chinese industrial products and craft demonstrations.

　　- Also, during the First United Front between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, under Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s policy of alliance with Russia and cooperation with the Communists, on June 6, 1915 (the 4th year of the Republic of China), Dr. Sun visited Tianjin Zhongshan Park to speak at a fundraising assembly for the National Salvation Fund. He called on the citizens to revitalize the national economy, vow to avenge national humiliation, and never become slaves to foreign powers. He also wrote the “Letter to Friends on Broadly Fundraising for National Salvation” as part of the campaign.

　　- In addition, Tianjin Zhongshan Park has been a site for modern Chinese democratic movements. Notably, in December 1910 (the 2nd year of the Xuantong reign), a wave of bourgeois constitutional rallies swept Tianjin, during which the famous revolutionary Li Dazhao, then a student at the Beiyang Law and Politics College, participated as a student activist. Additionally, on June 9, 1919 (the 8th year of the Republic of China), people from all walks of life in Tianjin gathered at the park to hold a rally in support of the May Fourth Movement by Beijing students, demanding the cancellation of the humiliating Twenty-One Demands and refusal to sign the Treaty of Versailles.

　　Address: No. 3 Zhongshan Park Road, Hebei District

　　Phone: 26293899

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