Town of Red Army in Tong River

The Town of Red Army in Tongjiang was located in the heart of the towering Bashan with a long history of one thousand and four hundred years, which was published in 1990 by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government as the provincial city of revolutionary history. In the winter of 1932, the red Soviet Fourth Army evacuated from Eyuwan district and established the second-largest National Soviet Region which took the Tong River as the center --- Chuan-Shan Revolutionary Base with Tongjiang County as its capital. At that time, the county had a population of two hundred and thirty thousand and there were fifty-eight thousand people joined the Red Army, gave birth to more than a dozen other generals that from Tong River, such as Fu Chongbi, He Zhengwen, Chen Bin Jiang and Ji Bin and so on. Until the founding of the PRC, there were only nearly a thousand survivors. Four hundred and forty-six generals including Zhang Guotao, Xu Xiangqian, Li Xiannian, Xu Shiyou, Liao Chengzhi, Wang Shusheng, Zhang Qinqiu, Wang Weizhou have been here for three years’ bitter fighting, which left a large number of revolutionary relics and treasures. According to statistics, there are more than two hundred revolutionary sites and remains and sixty (not including the history of heritage conservation units) of them have been declared as national, provincial, prefectural or county heritage conservations, three of them are in national level and four of them are in provincial level. At present, there are one hundred and eight well-preserved relics and sites of the Red Army in TongJiang county, including the site of Red Fourth Army headquarter, the former site of the General Political Department, the site of Zhang Guotao, Xu Xiangqian’s Office ( "five-one" village), the site of north-west Revolutionary Military Committee, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Provincial Committee Party School. From the winter in 1932 when the red army entered into Sichuan Province to the spring in 1935 when the Red Army evacuated Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet District to fight with the Japanese in the north, the northwest Revolutionary Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee, Red Fourth Army Headquarters, General Political Department, General Manager of the Department of the CPC Sichuan-Shaanxi Province Committee, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Government and other heads of agencies are located here. Here, also gave birth to China's most famous Red Detachment of Women in history --- Women's independence camp, the first high-level military schools --- Peng Yang military schools and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Provincial Party School, Liening primary schools, the new Red Army Theater were also created here. Arsenal, mint, textile mills, salt factory, printing and other logistics base were also created here; twenty eight species of mimeographed newspapers were found. As a result, the Tongjiang Town was made into a military, political and cultural center in Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet District historically.