Deng Xiaoping's Former Residence

　　In May 1932, Deng Xiaoping was appointed as the Party Secretary of Huichang County. Between June and July, entrusted by the Party, he successively established the Huixun'an Central County Committee and the Third Sub-district of the Jiangxi Military District in Baduxia, Yunmenling and Furongzhai, serving as the Central County Committee Secretary and the Political Commissar of the Third Sub-district. From then on, Deng Xiaoping took command at the southern gate of the Central Soviet Area, leading the military and civilians of the southern front in the vigorous land revolution struggle, and worked and lived in Yunmenling for 10 months.

　　After taking up his post on the southern front, based on the actual conditions of the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi border area, he adhered to the correct propositions represented by Mao Zedong and resisted Wang Ming’s “Left” adventurism errors. First, he strengthened the Party and government construction in various counties, developed over 3,000 Party members, and established and improved the Party and government organizations at the county, district, and township levels; second, in response to the needs of the military struggle on the southern front, he developed and expanded the Red Guards and guerrilla forces to 13,528 members, using the flexible “16-character tactics” to crush the “encirclement and suppression”; third, he deeply engaged in the land revolution, implemented the correct land distribution policy, and emphasized economic and cultural development; fourth, he actively expanded the Red Army and supported the front lines, supported the army and prioritized the families of servicemen, maintained close ties with the masses, cared about the people’s hardships, and greatly inspired the revolutionary enthusiasm of the military and civilians on the southern front.

　　Although his effective work in Huixun’an was met with ruthless attacks by the implementers of Wang Ming’s “Left” adventurism errors, and he was wrongly labeled as the main representative of the “Jiangxi Luo Ming Line,” he was transferred away from Huichang in March 1933. However, his working style of proceeding from reality and seeking truth from facts; his revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle; his firm revolutionary faith and upholding of truth in adversity; his fine revolutionary tradition of maintaining close ties with the masses and caring for the people—these are still celebrated among the people of Huixun’an to this day.

　　The site is a late Qing Dynasty Hakka residential building, with restored exhibits inside, including the washbasin and basin stand once used by Comrade Deng Xiaoping. It was listed as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit by the People’s Government of Jiangxi Province in 1987.

　　

　　Deng Xiaoping (1904~1997)　　 Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997) was a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, statesman, military strategist, and diplomat. He was one of the principal leaders of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, and the People’s Republic of China, the chief architect of China’s socialist reform, opening-up, and modernization, and the founder of Deng Xiaoping Theory. A native of Guang’an, Sichuan. Born on August 22, 1904. ...... Details+