Former Site of the Checome Township Soviet Consumer Cooperative

　　Checome Village is situated at the junction of the three counties of Jing, He, and Pu. It is a mountain village with only about 20 households and is one of the earliest revolutionary base villages established in Zhangpu County. In 1932, after the Central Red Army captured Zhangzhou, a preliminary revolutionary base area centered around Checome, Longling, and Xiaoshancheng in the Jing-He-Pu region was formed and gradually consolidated and expanded. By 1934, Checome Village officially became the headquarters of the Minyue Border Special Committee and the Jing-He-Pu Central County Committee. Rear organs such as the detention center, military hospital, military operations office, arms repair factory, and supply station were all located in the mountains around Checome, making the village the command center of the revolutionary struggle in southern Fujian. At that time, the Jing-He-Pu Soviet Area developed from being the central region of the southern Fujian revolutionary base into the core area leading the revolutionary struggle across the Minyue border. The Nationalist army continuously deployed a division or more troops to carry out prolonged military “encirclement and suppression” and economic blockades against the Jing-He-Pu Soviet Area, which caused tremendous difficulties in both military supplies and civilian needs. In order to break through the enemy's military and economic blockades, under the leadership of the Minyue Border Special Committee of the Communist Party, the Jing-He-Pu Soviet Area focused on concentrating Red Army guerrilla forces to eliminate reactionary armed groups and open up new revolutionary base areas. At the same time, following the approach of the Central Soviet Area, consumer cooperatives were established in the townships of the Soviet Area. These cooperatives adopted a shareholding system where both the township Soviet and the masses invested, securing the supply of daily necessities through various channels. The Checome Township Soviet Consumer Cooperative was established during this period. It operated until the summer of 1935 and made significant contributions to the Jing-He-Pu Soviet Area’s efforts to crush the enemy’s encirclement and economic blockade.

　　The Former Site of the Checome Township Soviet Consumer Cooperative was originally a residential house, connected with other houses to form a long-corridor-style building. In August 2009, it was designated by the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives as an All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives Revolutionary Tradition Education Base.

　　 Source: Zhangpu County Party History Research Office