Hongyan Village

The Site of the Eighth Route Army's Office in Chongqing City consists of three parts, namely No.13 of Hongyan Village, No.50 of Zengjiayan, and Guiyuan Site. In 1958, the Hongyan Revolution Memorial was built in Hongyan Village. The memorial consists of the three sites mentioned above and the site of the Distribution Department of the Xinhua Daily.

Hongyan Village is located at Hualongqiao on the west bank of Jialing River in the city of Chongqing. The Central Communist Party's Southern Area Bureau and the Eighth Route Army's Office in Chongqing City were built there. In 1938, after the Japanese Army occupied Wuhan City, the Eighth Route Army set up the office in Chongqing City. In January 1939, the Chinese Communist Party established the Southern Area Bureau with Zhou Enlai as the secretary to direct the overall work of the Communist Party in the area dominated by Kuomintang. The office was destroyed in the air attack of the Japanese Army. A building at No.13 Hongyan Village was converted to be the office building. In August 1945, Mao Zedong once lived there when he went to Chongqing City to negotiate with Chiang Kai-shek. In March 1947, when Kuomintang declared open the Civil War, all the staff in the office returned to Yan'an City.

The building at No. 50 of Zengjiayan is located at Zhongshan Silu (the fourth road) in Chongqing City. In 1938, when the Chinese Communist Party Delegation moved from Wuhan City to Chongqing City, Zhou Enlai rented the three-storeyed building in his own name. The so-called Zhougong Guan (the Mansion of the Zhous') was the main place for handling official affairs. The Chinese Communist Party's Delegation led by Zhou Enlai arrived in Nanjing City after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and the place was changed into the site of the Chinese Communist Party's Committee of Sichuan Province.

Guiyuan used to be the residence of a member of Kuomintang, Zhang Zhizhong. It is a two-storeyed building about 200 meters away from No. 50 of Zengjiayan. During the Chongqing Negotiation period in 1945, Zhang Zhizhong, the negotiation delegate from the Kuomintang Party, vacated the main building to ensure the security of Mao Zedong and facilitate his office work. The reception hall downstairs was the place where Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai held negotiation with the delegates of Kuomintang and signed the agreement of the Chongqing Negotiation (the so-called Double Ten negotiation). The second floor was where Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai worked and rested.