In June 1946, the Central China People's Liberation Army broke through the layered encirclement of several hundred thousand troops. When the 359th Brigade and cadres led by General ... arrived in southern Shaanxi, ... requested that the Central China forces send a representative for peace talks. At the invitation of General Hu Zongnan, General ... dispatched Zhang Wenjin, Wu Zuyi, and Mao Chuxiong to Xi’an for negotiations. On their way through Jiangkou in Ningqiang County, they were detained and killed by the 181st Regiment of the 61st Division of Hu Zongnan’s forces stationed there.
To commemorate and mourn these revolutionary martyrs, the Jiangkou Hui Ethnic Town Martyrs' Cemetery was built in 1984. In 2001, it was designated as a “Shaanxi Provincial Patriotic Education Base” by the Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department.
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