Statue of Martyr Qian Xing

　　    A statue of Martyr Qian Xing erected in Huangyao Ancient Town Scenic Area, Hezhou City. Qian Xing was born into a wealthy family. In 1922, he was admitted to Fengnan Primary School in Xiehe Township (now Anhua Township). In 1926, he entered the First Higher Primary School in Huaiji. In 1927, he was enrolled in Huaiji County Junior Middle School. In 1931, he went to Guangzhou to study at Zhiyong Middle School for high school. That autumn, he transferred to the affiliated high school of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, joined a secret “Reading Club,” and later helped organize a “Socialist Ideology Group.”

　　    In 1933, he was admitted to the Political Science Department of the Law School at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. In 1934, he participated in the Reader’s Association of Time Culture, organized by the underground party at Sun Yat-sen University, and later joined the China Youth League formed by progressive students from various Guangzhou universities, serving as the branch secretary of the “China Youth League” at Sun Yat-sen University. After the outbreak of the December 9th Movement in Beiping (Beijing) in 1935, he actively organized and mobilized students at Sun Yat-sen University to respond. In July 1936, he joined the Chinese Communist Party. He later served as the Propaganda Minister of the CCP Guangzhou Municipal Committee and the Secretary of the Party Branch at Sun Yat-sen University. In early 1937, he was transferred to work at the Southern Work Committee of the CCP Central Committee in Hong Kong. By the end of that year, he was appointed Secretary of the CCP Xiamen Municipal Committee and also took charge of the CCP Zhangzhou Municipal Committee. In May 1938, after the fall of Xiamen, he was transferred to the Zhangzhou Central County Committee, where he served successively as Propaganda Minister and Organization Minister, and was responsible for the CCP committees in Yunxiao, Pinghe, and Zhao’an counties. In the winter of 1940, he was assigned by the Party organization to Guilin to establish the CCP Guangxi Provincial Committee, later becoming its Secretary.

　　    In July 1942, following the “July 9 Incident” in Guilin, he moved to Lingchuan to continue his activities. In October of the same year, he went to Baishajing in Yingjia Township, Zhongshan County, to set up a temporary provincial committee office and continued leading the underground revolutionary struggle in Guangxi. In the summer of 1944, under the instructions of the CCP Central Southern Bureau, he worked to establish anti-Japanese guerrilla bases in northeastern and southeastern Guangxi. That autumn, he relocated the provincial committee office to Huangbao Village in Zhongshan County, and later to Huangyao Middle School in Zhaoping County. In September 1946, after the outbreak of the Liberation War, he actively led and organized patriotic movements in cities such as Guilin, Liuzhou, Nanning, and Wuzhou, while simultaneously organizing rural struggles against the “Three Levies” of conscription, grain requisition, and taxation. In April 1947, he presided over the “Hengxian Conference” in Liuxiu Village, West District, Hengxian, attended by leaders of the underground CCP in various regions of Guangxi, conveying instructions from the Hong Kong Branch of the CCP Shanghai Bureau and establishing the strategy for the struggle against the enemy in Guangxi: mobilizing the masses, organizing armed uprisings, launching armed struggle, and establishing guerrilla zones. In July of the same year, he attended the expanded meeting of the Guangdong-Guangxi-Hunan Border Regional Committee held at Liaotangan in Guangning County, Guangdong Province, and was elected Deputy Secretary of the Guangdong-Guangxi-Hunan Border Regional Committee and Deputy Political Commissar of the Guangdong-Guangxi-Hunan Border Column (Xijiang Column). On the evening of August 15 of the same year, he led the Huainan Uprising in Huaiji County, Guangdong Province, establishing the Huainan Guerrilla Base.

　　    In May 1948, when reactionary forces launched frenzied “encirclement and suppression” campaigns against the guerrilla bases, he was responsible for anti-encirclement operations along the lower reaches of the Sui River. He led the remaining troops in fierce battles against the enemy, repelling multiple attacks. In September of the same year, he reorganized the remaining troops into one battalion and served as battalion commander. In November of that year, he was ambushed and unfortunately killed on a mountain in Shiru Village, A’zi, Huaiji County.