The site of Anyuan Railways and Mine Workers' Club is located on No. 52, Niujiaopo, Anyuan County, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province. It was originally a meeting place for Hubei Provincial Fellow Association. On May 1, 1922, Anyuan Railways and Mines Workers' Club was founded and the Club rented this place. Later on, it became the headquarters of the Anyuan Railways and Mines Workers Strike.
In 1922, the Hunan Committee of the CPC, which was led by Mao Zedong, sent Li Lisan, Liu Shaoqi and Jiang Xianyun to Anyuan to initiate workers' movement. In March that year, the Preparatory Committee of Anyuan Railways and Mines Workers' Club was set up. On May 1, the club was officially established, of which Li Lisan and Liu Shaoqi held the post of director successively. Subsidiary organizations of the CPC and the Communist Youth League and Workers' Pickets were also set up. As the railways and mines authorities were in arrears with salary to workers over a long period of time and always oppressed members of the Workers' Union, more than 17,000 railways and mines workers, led by the Club, went on strike on September 14, 2002. They eventually gained victory and forced the authorities to accept various requirements proposed by the workers. In 1923, railways and mines workers in Anyuan raised funds and set up a new club. All the units of the Club shifted to the new site with the move of their headquarters.
The new Club was a two-storeyed building, which took the Great Theater of Moscow as its model and followed the Theater's style. The middle hall on the first floor was the office of Workers' Pickets with referees' office and accountants' office on its right and left, respectively. Left side on the second floor was a conference hall of general delegates, in front of which was a bedroom of Liu Shaoqi and his wife, He Maozhen. The big room on the right of that floor was an office for directors.
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