Former Site of the Ningdu Uprising Headquarters

　　  The site was originally a Christian church, built in 1916. It is a two-story brick-and-wood building covering an area of approximately 394 square meters, with the entire courtyard spanning about 2,040 square meters. The former site of the Ningdu Uprising Headquarters has been well preserved, and a display room dedicated to the uprising has also been established.

　　  In the spring of 1931, Chiang Kai-shek deployed the 26th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army—originally part of the Northwestern Army—to Jiangxi to carry out a “encirclement and suppression” campaign against the Red Army. Dissatisfied with the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek’s non-resistance policy toward Japanese imperialism, and under the influence and guidance of the Chinese Communist Party, on December 14 of the same year, over 17,000 officers and soldiers of the 26th Route Army, led by Chief of Staff Zhao Bosheng (a CCP member), brigade commanders Ji Zhongyong and Dong Zhentang, and regimental commander Huang Zhongyue, among others, declared an uprising in Ningdu and joined the Red Army. This rebel force was later reorganized as the 5th Corps of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, with Ji Zhongyong as Commander-in-Chief, Xiao Jingguang as Political Commissar, Dong Zhentang as Deputy Commander-in-Chief and Commander of the 13th Red Army, Zhao Bosheng as Chief of Staff and Commander of the 14th Red Army, and Huang Zhongyue as Commander of the 15th Red Army.

　　  The Ningdu Uprising was the largest and most successful armed uprising led by the Chinese Communist Party during the Second Revolutionary Civil War. The formation and establishment of the 5th Red Army Corps significantly strengthened the forces of the Central Red Army. (National Cultural Heritage Administration)