Yaoyi is located in CuO Town, Feidong County, the eastern suburb of Hefei, with Huainan Railway and Hefei-Wuhu Highway in the south and National Highway 3 12 in the north. It takes only half an hour to drive from Hefei to Yaogang. When I came to Yaogang, the first thing I saw was the "Memorial Hall of the former site of the General Front Committee of the Battle of Crossing the River", which was inscribed by Shu Tong, one of the commanders of the Battle of Crossing the River and a famous calligraphy master, in1September, 986. Yaogang is recorded in many historical documents and memoirs of many old generals and old comrades. In the book My Father Deng Xiaoping written by Deng Xiaoping's daughter Mao Mao on page 6 19, there is also a record about Yaogang: "1On April 2, 949, my father (Deng Xiaoping) and Chen Yi arrived in Hefei from Bengbu along the railway.

1949 Around New Year's Day, the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Ping Jin in the Liberation War ended in the victory of the People's Liberation Army. In order to win the victory of the China Revolution and smash the plot of the United States and the Kuomintang to divide and rule the Yangtze River, the CPC Central Committee put forward the slogan of "crossing the river and liberating all China" in time, and decided to set up the general front committee of the river crossing campaign to be fully responsible for directing the river crossing campaign. With the approval of the Central Committee, the General Front Committee of the Battle of Crossing the River is composed of Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Su Yu and Tan Zhenlin, and Deng Xiaoping is the secretary of the General Front Committee. After careful consideration and repeated comparison, the General Front Committee accepted the suggestion of Ceng Xisheng, then secretary of the Northern Anhui Municipal Party Committee, and set its headquarters in Yaogang, Feidong, Hefei. After the General Front Committee entered Yaogang, it paid close attention to the situation of the struggle between the enemy and ourselves, coordinated the battle of crossing the river, commanded and coordinated the operations of various military groups, and formulated plans and personnel arrangements for taking over the Jiangnan New Area. In Yaogang, the General Front Committee drafted, reviewed and submitted many historic documents, orders and telegrams, such as the Implementation Outline of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou Campaign, the Instructions on Taking Over Cities in the South of the Yangtze River, and the Instructions on Rural Work in the New Area of the South of the Yangtze River.

In order to remember and learn from the great achievements of Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yi and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation,1In July 1985, the county party committee and county people's government decided to build a memorial hall for the former site of the General Front Committee of the Battle of Crossing the River. 1On July 3rd, 986, the Anhui Provincial People's Government listed the former site of the General Front Committee of Yaoganghe River Crossing Campaign as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. 19961October 20th, the State Council listed it as a national key cultural relics protection unit. Also in Yaogang, the former site of the East China Bureau, the staff office of the General Front Committee, the confidential room, the secretariat, the logistics office and the former site of the garrison camp are also included in the protection list.

As a historical witness and revolutionary holy land, the memorial hall of the former site of the General Front Committee has become the revolutionary tradition and patriotic education base of dozens of universities such as Nanjing Military Region, Anhui University and Hefei Artillery College.