Culture Tourism

Search for Luochuan materials expands to nation

By Lu Hongyan (China Daily Shaanxi Bureau)
Updated: 2010-06-23 19:42

The Memorial Museum for Luochuan Conference, a patriotic site in Shaanxi province, will start collecting cultural relics and historical data from all parts of China.

Historical relics showing the background, process and influences of the meeting such as photos, scripts, records, books and other historical materials will be collected nationwide by purchasing, copying, through donations or borrowing.

Held from Aug 22 to 25 in 1937, Luochuan Conference was regarded as one of the most important conferences since the formation of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

It approved the Ten-Point Program for Resisting Japan and Saving the Nation, the guild line to resist Japanese invaders, shortly after the outbreak of Anti-Japanese War on July 7, 1937.

A military leader group with Mao Zhedong as chairman was formed, and the former communist Red Army was reformed into the Eighth Route Army during the meeting, in which the CPC decided to work with all parties, including its former political opponent KMT, to fight against Japanese invaders, marking the formation of the Anti-Japanese United Front.

The collecting of related historical relics and data started in 1965. Since then, 863 cultural relics including chairs used by Chairman Mao have been collected. A total of 500 have been collected through non-governmental channels.

"However, collections and introductions on the other 15 attending leaders including Bo Gu, Nie Rongzhen and Lin Biao are still lacking. Our future work would focus on supplemental materials and displays on them," said Wang Hua, curator of the museum.

Located in the middle of Shaanxi, the museum is now one of the key historical sites under state protection, as well as a demonstrative base for patriotic education and significant scenic spot of red tourism in China.