Memorial Park for Revolutionary Martyrs of Wang Bailun and the Hongqi Region

　　The Memorial Park for Revolutionary Martyrs of Wang Bailun and the Hongqi Region is a patriotic education base in Haikou City, situated at the 30-kilometer mark of the Haiyu East Highway on the northwest side of Tuqiao, Hongqi Town, Qiongshan District, Haikou City. The management authority is the Civil Affairs Bureau of Qiongshan District, Haikou City.

　　The park was completed in June 1994. It is rectangular in shape, covering an area of 10 mu. On the left side of the main entrance is inscribed the name of the park: “Memorial Park for Revolutionary Martyrs of Wang Bailun and the Hongqi Region.” At the center of the park stands a half-length statue of martyr Wang Bailun, which is 1.5 meters tall with a 1.6-meter-high base. On the east and west sides of the statue are two pavilions, and behind the statue stands a two-story central pavilion with orange-red glazed tiles and flying eaves, built from cement, 8.85 meters high and covering a floor area of 40.9 square meters. Behind the central pavilion is a wall corridor, on which are engraved inscriptions from leading comrades and the names of martyrs from the Hongqi Region. The auxiliary buildings consist of three flat-roof rooms made of reinforced concrete. The memorial park was built with donations exceeding 500,000 yuan from all sectors of society to commemorate Comrade Wang Bailun, member of the Standing Committee of the Qiongya Special Committee of the CPC and Secretary of the Provisional Committee of the Western District, as well as hundreds of revolutionary martyrs from the Hongqi Region (including the former Daochong, Lingda, and Suxun villages).

　　Location: Near National Highway 223, Qiongshan District, Haikou City, Hainan Province

　　Transportation: Take a taxi within Haikou City to get there

　　Wang Bailun (1903~1946)　　Wang Bailun (1903–1946), originally named Wang Yucai, was from Xiayun Village, Hongqi Town, Qiongshan County (now part of Haikou City), Hainan Province. He was born in 1903 into a poor farming family. His father was an illiterate farmer, and his mother, Madam Lin, was a kind, hardworking, and honest rural woman. His elder brother, Wang Yuxian, after graduating from middle school, worked successively as a teacher at Tamen Primary School and Longfa Primary School. Influenced by the May Fourth Movement, he embraced Marxism-Leninism, joined the Communist Party of China, and was executed in Fucheng in 1927. Due to poverty, Wang Bailun did not receive much schooling in his early years. In his youth, he went to Siam (now Thailand) with relatives to work as a boatman. In 1925, he returned to Qiong and devoted himself to the revolution, joining... More+

　　Source: Research Office of the Party History of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee