Introduction of Chongqing Geleshan Martyrs Cemetery

Geleshan Martyrs Cemetery is located at the foot of Geleshan Mountain in Shapingba District. It was the headquarters, radio station and prison of the Kuomintang Military Investigation and Statistics Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the Scout Bureau) during the Kuomintang government period. In the late World War II, the China-US Institute of Special Technical Cooperation was built here. Geleshan Tomb, Martyrs Monument and Exhibition Hall were built in 1954 and later renamed as 1984. In July, 1984, it was renamed. The Sino-US Institute of Special Technical Cooperation is about 7 kilometers long from east to west, with a vertical and horizontal length of 10 kilometers. Around this "special zone", it is completely blocked with bunkers, sentry boxes and barbed wire, and no one can pass. Nominally, it is under the guise of Sino-US joint spy war against Japan and Sino-US exchange of information. In fact, it is an organization that completely trains fascist executioners, and has carried out a lot of raids and persecution on party member and anti-Japanese Democrats in China. During the Kuomintang rule, it was a hell on earth where revolutionaries were detained and killed. After the "Southern Anhui Incident", General Ye Ting, commander of the New Fourth Army, was imprisoned here, and famous producers Luo Shiwen, Che Yaoxian and Jiang Zhujun, patriotic generals Yang Hucheng and Huang Xiansheng were all killed here.

1949165438+1On October 27th, on the eve of the withdrawal of the Kuomintang regime from the mainland, more than 300 revolutionaries imprisoned here were massacred collectively, resulting in the "1 1.27" bloody case that shocked China and foreign countries. After liberation, factories, farms and schools were established in this "special zone". The original Baigongguan and Zhazidong have been opened as exhibition halls in the prison to display the objects and pictures of the year. Today, millions of tourists come here every year to visit and mourn the martyrs.

From 65438 to 0955, the Chongqing Municipal People's Government built the Martyrs Cemetery and Martyrs Monument, covering an area of 698 square meters. 1956 Sichuan provincial people's government has designated this place as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit. 1963, Meijiang Crime Exhibition Hall of Chongqing Institute for Sino-American Cooperation was established, which restored the original appearance of Baigongguan and Zhazidong. 1985 was renamed Chongqing Geleshan Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery. 1988 was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council. 1993, with the brand of Chongqing Geleshan Revolutionary Memorial Hall.

Chongqing Geleshan Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery 1996 was awarded the title of "National Patriotism Education Base for Primary and Secondary Schools" by six central ministries and commissions. 1997 was listed as one hundred demonstration bases of patriotism education in China by the Propaganda Department of the CPC.