Site of the Shangxi Reorganization in Yanping

　　In 1948, the headquarters of the Communist Party of China’s Fujian–Zhejiang–Jiangxi Provincial Committee moved to the Taoping area of Cunwei Village in Nanshan Township (formerly Fengshan Township, Nanping, now Nanshan Township, Yanping District, Nanping City). At that time, the situation in the Nan–Gu–Ou region was quite tense, with the enemy concentrating relatively superior forces to suppress revolutionary masses in an attempt to wipe out the Provincial Committee and its leading main forces.

　　At a time when the enemy threat was severe, the Provincial Committee’s radio received a Xinhua News Agency broadcast of the telegram “Major Changes in China’s Military Situation,” learning about the great victories in the Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin campaigns, which greatly boosted morale. In December 1948, the Provincial Committee successively issued the “Decision on the Urgent Task of Launching Armed Struggle to Assist the Liberation of Fujian–Zhejiang–Jiangxi by the People’s Liberation Army” and the “Instructions on the Urgent Tasks of Securing the Liberation of the People of Fujian–Zhejiang–Jiangxi,” pointing out that the current urgent tasks were to mobilize and organize all forces, actively expand the Party and train cadres, recruit large numbers of youths, intensify the expansion of territory and troops, proactively crush enemy offensives, and assist the People’s Liberation Army in liberating Fujian–Zhejiang–Jiangxi.

　　On New Year’s Day 1949, the Provincial Committee held a cadres’ meeting in Taoping, Cunwei Village, Fengshan Township, Nanping, attended by nearly 100 people including Zeng Jingbing, Zuo Fengmei, Chen Guifang, Wang Yiping, Su Hua, Huang Liyu, as well as county-level cadres and key members of the Provincial Committee’s armed forces from the Nan–Gu–Ou region. At the meeting, Zeng Jingbing summarized the struggle experience of eliminating local tyrants and distributing grain, and crushing enemy encirclement attacks, analyzed the major victories in the national liberation war and the favorable conditions for persisting in guerrilla warfare in the Nan–Gu–Ou region, and called on all Party members and cadres to resolutely overcome all difficulties, persist in mobilizing the masses, expanding the Party and training cadres, disintegrating the enemy, and annihilating the enemy. The meeting passed the “Action Program of the Fujian–Zhejiang–Jiangxi People’s Guerrilla Column,” which clearly stated that the Fujian–Zhejiang–Jiangxi People’s Guerrilla Column was a self-defense armed force produced by the people of Fujian–Zhejiang–Jiangxi in their struggle and was part of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, with all actions fully complying with the programs and policies promulgated by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Headquarters of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. It also specifically put forward ten action guidelines, the main spirit of which was: to lead and unite all oppressed people against the burning, killing, and looting by Chiang Kai-shek’s troops; to refuse conscription, taxation, grain levies, and labor drafts; to overthrow reactionary regimes; to mobilize the masses to organize peasant associations and poor peasants’ groups, improve the lives of peasants, and implement rent and interest reductions; to protect industry, commerce, and overseas Chinese families; to welcome defections from Chiang Kai-shek’s troops and eliminate all die-hard reactionaries and reactionary armed forces. After the meeting, the Provincial Committee headquarters moved from Taoping to Shangxi.

　　In early February 1949, in Shangxi Village, Nanping, in accordance with the directives of the Central Military Commission, the Provincial Committee reorganized the various guerrilla armed forces under the Fujian–Zhejiang–Jiangxi Provincial Committee into the People’s Liberation Army’s Fujian–Zhejiang–Jiangxi People’s Guerrilla Column (also known as the People’s Liberation Army’s Fujian–Zhejiang–Jiangxi Border Column), with Zeng Jingbing serving as both commander and political commissar, Zuo Fengmei as deputy political commissar, Chen Guifang as deputy commander and chief of staff, and Huang Liyu as director of the political department. The three directly affiliated battalions and one training battalion of the Column actively cooperated with the advancing liberation forces to liberate Northern Fujian.

　　To facilitate commemoration by future generations, in May 1988, the Nanping Municipal Committee and Municipal Government of the Communist Party of China erected the “Monument to the Founding of the Fujian–Zhejiang–Jiangxi People’s Guerrilla Column” within the “Lingyun Pavilion” on a small hill at the Second Peak of Jiufeng Mountain Park in Nanping, with the inscription written by Zuo Fengmei.

　　Source: People’s Government of Nanping City