Pingjin Battle Memorial is situated at No. 8 Pingjin Road, Hongqiao District, and consists of the hallway, multi-dimensional demonstration hall, battle history hall, special subject hall, commenoration square, victory garden, battle headquarters, implementation hall, hall displaying people's support for the front, great victory hall, and hall showing intrepid acts of martyrs. By means of high technologies such as acoustic and electro-optical equipments, the multi-dimensional demonstration hall reproduces the magnificence of the Pingjin Battle lively. In addition, at the center of the commemoration square stands a 60-odd-meter triumph memorial monument with a stainless steal bayonet of three edges piercing into the sky.
The Beiping-Tianjin Campaign was a large-scale, strategically decisive battle which, under the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party, was fought by the Northeast Field Army and the North China Field Army of the PLA, over a million strong, against the Kuomintang forces in North China between November 29, 1948 and January 31, 1949, over a battle front of 500 kilometres, from Tangshan in the east to Zhangjiakou in the west. Victory in the Beiping-Tianjin Campaign and in the Liaoxi-Shenyang and Huaihai campaigns ensured victory in the War of Liberation in the whole of China. |