Southwest Shandong Martyrs' Cemetery

　　Southwest Shandong Martyrs' Cemetery, a revolutionary landmark, is located 200 meters northeast of Sunzhuang Village, Jizhen Town, to the west of the county seat. The cemetery consists of two burial areas in the north and east, where 261 revolutionary martyrs are laid to rest. The eastern burial area contains the remains of Wei Keren, political commissar and director of the political department of the Eastern Henan Column of the Eighth Route Army’s Hebei–Shandong–Henan Military District; Zhou Zhu’an, deputy commander of the Fifth Sub-district of the Hebei–Shandong–Henan Military District; Wang Xuejing, the magistrate of Cao County; Xiang Fengzhi, deputy secretary of the Qi Bin County Committee of the Communist Party of China; Mao Yixuan, head of the Tax Bureau of the Huxi Administrative Office, and other martyrs. In addition to those who died resisting enemy “mopping-up” campaigns during the War of Resistance against Japan, the northern burial area also houses the remains of 253 martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the War of Liberation, the Korean War, and the counterattack in self-defense against Vietnam. In January 1988, it was approved as a key protected provincial revolutionary memorial site. In 2006, it was designated as a provincial-level patriotic education base.

　　Source: Heze Municipal Local Chronicles Office