Site of the Former Fujian Provincial Committee of the CPC in Wuyishan

　　   The Fujian Provincial Committee of the CPC was officially established in June 1938 in Cuntou Village, Kengkou, Wuyishan City. Cuntou Village, located 34 kilometers from the urban area, borders Shangrao County of Jiangxi Province to the north via Kezhu Pass and neighbors Yanshan County of Jiangxi Province to the northwest through Wenling Pass. Historically, it was a strategic military location.

　　   In February 1938, the guerrilla forces of the Red Army in Northern Fujian set off for the anti-Japanese front in Southern Anhui. The former Min-Gan Provincial Committee was ordered to be renamed the Min-Zhe-Gan Special Committee, which continued the struggle locally. In June, the Southeast Bureau of the CPC Central Committee instructed that the Min-Zhe-Gan Special Committee be merged with the Min-Dong Special Committee and the Min-Central Party organizations to form the Fujian Provincial Committee of the CPC. In August, the Fujian Provincial Committee of the CPC was formally established in Cuntou Village, with Zeng Jingbing as secretary, Fan Shiping as head of the Organization Department, Wang Zhu as head of the Propaganda Department, Zuo Fengmei as head of the Military Department, Wang Linxing as head of the Masses Department, Yu Yale as head of the Labor Department, and Wang Wenbo as head of the Youth Department. From then on, this area became the core leadership zone of Fujian’s anti-Japanese movement, earning the title “Red Capital.”

　　   Major activities carried out by the Fujian Provincial Committee in Cuntou Village include: In July 1939, the Committee held its First Party Congress on Lücunyang Mountain in Cuntou. Chen Pixian was sent by the Southeast Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to guide the meeting. The Congress reviewed one and a half years of work, put forward the “Tasks Ahead,” elected a new Provincial Committee, and selected six delegates — Fan Shiping, Cheng Xu, Fang Yan, Nie Xianshu, and Mao Biao — to attend the Party’s 7th National Congress. This marked the first time that Fujian’s Party organization had its own representatives at the national Party Congress. Between 1939 and 1941, to popularize Marxist-Leninist education and enhance the ideological and theoretical level of cadres and soldiers, the Wuyi Cadre School was founded on Lücunyang Mountain in Cuntou Village. Secretary Zeng Jingbing personally served as the school’s principal. The Wuyi Cadre School held four sessions, training over 300 participants, including intellectuals from cities and worker-peasant cadres from rural areas. Many of them later became key figures in the Party’s efforts during the War of Resistance Against Japan and the Liberation War.

　　   After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Party and government built a “Fujian Provincial Committee of the CPC Memorial Pavilion” in Cuntou Village. A “Kengkou Revolutionary Struggle History Exhibition Room” was also established.

　　   Source: People’s Government of Nanping City