The former site of the establishment of the Hui Autonomous Government in Yuxian County in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and Tongxin Mosque are located in the old city southwest of Tongxin County. Founded in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, it has a history of more than 600 years. Its architectural style combines the art of classical palaces, pavilions and pavilions in China with Islamic culture, with simple and elegant modeling and grand scale. It is one of the well-preserved ancient buildings in Ningxia. In 2005, the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region recommended three sites of the Red Revolution to the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee to be declared as national demonstration bases for patriotism education. In addition to Liupanshan Long March Memorial Hall and Yanchi Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Hall, the former site of the establishment of Yuhai Hui Autonomous Government in Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and Tongxin Mosque are one of them.

Tracing back to history, in May of 1936, 70 years ago, in order to consolidate and expand the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia revolutionary base area, the First Corps and the Fifteenth Corps of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army formed the "Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army's Western Expedition Field Army", with Peng as commander and political commissar, and began the famous western expedition after the Eastern Expedition. At the beginning of the Red Army's Western Expedition, the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission issued the "Instructions on Doing a Good Job of Hui People". Since the Red Army's Western Expedition entered Wang Yu County (now Wang Yu and Xiamaguan in Tongxin County) in Ningxia on June 9, the local people who returned to Han Dynasty were in high spirits and their revolutionary enthusiasm was unprecedented. They actively joined the army to participate in the war, organized donations of "welcome food" and "anti-Japanese money", and formed the Hui People's Federation. Under the response of the revolutionary masses, the Red Army of the Western Expedition liberated Xiamaguan, the seat of Wang Yu county, on June 27th, and then established the Wang Yu county government of Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Province in the Soviet area, and successively established district and township revolutionary regimes in Wang Yu, Xiamaguan, Tongxin City, Wangjiatuan Village and other places where Hui people live in compact communities, and liberated Gaoya, Guanqiao and Wangli in Haiyuan County nearby. Since then, the conditions for the establishment of the Hui autonomous government have basically matured. At the beginning of August, Li Fuchun, secretary of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Provincial Party Committee, came to Tongxin City according to Chairman Mao's instructions on "establishing an autonomous Hui government" and set up a preparatory committee with Li Fuchun, Cheng, Wang Shoudao,,,, Yang Qiqing and Ma Qingnian as members, and decided to establish an autonomous Hui regime in Wang Yu County and liberate Haiyuan County, which was named "Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Yuhai". After intense work, the Preparatory Committee drafted the relevant documents of the autonomous government, drew up the agenda for the establishment of the autonomous government, and immediately telegraphed Chairman Mao, the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, independent divisions of the Hui nationality, independent groups, religious figures of the Hui nationality and representatives of Turkey.

1936101On October 20th, colorful flags fluttered in the ancient temple beside Qingshui River, which was very lively. On the morning of 10, the Hui Autonomous Government in Yuhai County, Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region was grandly established here! This is the first county-level Hui autonomous regime in China and the first county-level minority autonomous regime in the history of China. The congress of the autonomous government lasted for three days, and more than 300 people's representatives from Yuhai area and people from all walks of life attended the congress. During the meeting, the delegates seriously discussed the situation in the northwest, Hui autonomy and the anti-Japanese and national salvation issues, and discussed and passed the Regulations on the Autonomous Government of Hui Nationality in Yuhai County, the Regulations on Rent Reduction and Interest Reduction, and the Land Regulations. Ma Dang, a young Hui farmer, was elected as the chairman of the Wangjiatuan Zhuang government. At that time, Red China, the central organ newspaper, made a timely report on the meeting: "In the Huimin area west of Wang Yu and Haiyuan, Tongxin City, Wangjiatuan Village, Liwangbao, Yaoshan and Haiyuan East were newly established Huimin counties, and the slogan of' national self-determination' was implemented. On the 20th of this month, the inaugural meeting was held in Tongxin City. The majority of Hui people elected their own representatives to attend. Wang Yu belongs to two autonomous regions and township governments, and also elected representatives to attend. This is the first time for the Hui government and the first time for the liberation of the Hui people! "

1936165438+10. In October, Peng led the General Command of the Red Army, He Long and some troops of the Red Fourth Army, and successfully assembled in Tongxin City, where the main forces of the Red Third Army joined forces for the first time. 165438+ 10 12, Zhu De, Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army and Peng, Commander-in-Chief of the Western Expedition, held a reunion meeting with more than 10,000 local Hui people in front of the Hui Autonomous Government in Yuhai County, Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. During 1996, when the relevant leaders of Tongxin County visited General Xiao Ke, the former vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference who witnessed this history, the old military intelligence officer recalled the past and was deeply moved, so he happily wrote: The Red Army marched into Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, and the three armies gathered in Tongxin City.

The establishment of a Hui autonomous government in Yuhai, a Hui-inhabited area, is the product of the Red Army's victory in the Western Expedition, the concrete embodiment of the Red Army's implementation of the Party's national self-determination policy and the Party's ethnic and religious policy, the successful practice of China's * * * Production Party in correctly solving ethnic problems by applying Marxist principles, and the initial attempt of the Party's regional ethnic autonomy policy in Hui-inhabited areas. It provides a useful reference for our party to further improve and fully implement the policy of regional ethnic autonomy, and is known as the liberation of the Hui people.

After the founding of New China, the Party and the government attached great importance to the maintenance and management of the former site of the Hui Autonomous Government in Yuhai County, Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. The government of the autonomous region has allocated special funds for large-scale maintenance. In recent years, Tongxin County has developed and built the "Ecological Park of Hui Autonomous Government in Yuhai County, Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia" according to local conditions, and has now formed an ecological scale group with a main building area of more than 2,000 square meters and a radiation area of nearly 2 square kilometers. It has also won more than one million yuan for the aid construction project in Hui 'an County, Fujian Province, and plans to build an asphalt road with a total length of 1.6 km to solve the problem of inconvenient transportation between the temple and the county center. In 2004, the Outline of National Red Tourism Development Plan 2004-20 10 listed Tongxin County as one of the national 100 red classic scenic spots, centering on the former site of the establishment of the Hui Autonomous Government in Yuhai County, Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Province. In 2006, it also spent 6.5438+0.05 million yuan to build the "Red Army Western Expedition Memorial Park" centered on the former site.

Since the reform and opening up, the former site has played an increasingly important role in local propaganda and cultural exchanges with its quaint architectural style, profound revolutionary accumulation and unique revolutionary historical position. A set of CCTV's "Looking Back at the Century" column produced three episodes of feature films with the theme of "Past in the Sea-1936 Red Army's Western Expedition", and four sets of "Walking Around China" and twelve sets of "My Favorite Western Cities" also made special reports on the former site and its red revolutionary history. Since 1980, delegations from more than ten countries and regions have arrived here, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, Belgium, the United States, Japan, France, Malaysia and Britain. Nowadays, with the deepening of China's opening to the outside world, tens of thousands of domestic and foreign tourists come here to visit and study every year.

While opening wider to the outside world and promoting foreign exchanges, the local government attaches great importance to the great value of the former patriotic education demonstration base, giving priority to social benefits and opening it to domestic and foreign tourists free of charge. Every major festival, such as the anniversary of the liberation of Ningxia, the anniversary of the establishment of the Hui Autonomous Government in Qianhai County, Youth Day, Party Building Day, National Day, etc. There will be a huge red revolutionary history report, special lectures, red cultural relics exhibitions, youth team activities and other forms of patriotic education activities. Nowadays, using this patriotic education demonstration base to carry out patriotic education activities with the theme of "remembering history, strengthening unity, loving the motherland and hometown" for the masses, especially teenagers and primary and secondary school students, has become an important part of the work of the local government and an indispensable link in the spiritual and cultural life of cadres and the masses.

Now, when I came to the former site, I walked in the footsteps of revolutionary martyrs, standing on my highland overlooking the hillside. Pieces of Song Bailv were dyed, the winding Qingshui River ran northward, the ancient ruins and the Red Army wells were the physical witnesses of history, and the meeting place of the three main forces of the Red Army was still antique ... Looking back, everything reminds people of the infinite grandeur of the Red Army soldiers who hunted with flags and swallowed mountains and rivers.

We firmly believe that with the continuous acceleration of the country's western development process and the gradual implementation of the "2004-20 10 National Red Tourism Development Plan", a red tourist scenic spot with the historical facts of the Red Army's western expedition as the main content will surely be presented to the world. By then, the history of concentric red revolution will become a powerful cultural brand, and the former site of the establishment of the Hui autonomous government in Yuhai County in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region will surely become a witness and symbol of concentric economic and social development and national unity and progress in the new century with more moving vitality.