HEFEI, July 22 (Xinhua) — The memorial corridor of the previous headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Jingxian County, a key cultural relic underneath state safety, serves as a historic web site of commemorating the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The well-preserved memorial recreates the scenes of the New Fourth Army’s fight and life throughout their keep in Yunling Township. Launched in 1985, the memorial has now obtained greater than 9 million visits.
At the memorial corridor, there’s an attic the place American journalist Agnes Smedley lived. In July 1939, she printed a report with a collection of uncommon pictures documenting the New Fourth Army’s battle towards Japanese aggression in LIFE, a preferred U.S. journal. The protection drew widespread consideration to China’s counter-Japanese forces and assist Western readers perceive the function of the Communist Party of China within the battle towards Japanese invaders.
“On this pages, you see what is wearing out Japan and it’s long war with China,” she wrote from her deep enterprise into China’s revolutionary heartland within the article.