Cemetery of Ximan Revolutionary Martyrs

Cemetery of Ximan Revolutionary Martyrs is located at the South Mount Park Scenic Spot Area, which is approximately 1.5km south to Qiqihar City Railway Station. After more than 50-year's repairs and expansion, the cemetery covers 40,000㎡. Cemetery of Ximan Revolutionary is the first cemetery in the northeastern liberation area of China, which is famous for its early establishment, large scale and large number of martyrs buried.

The construction of Cemetery of Ximan Revolutionary Martyrs was formally completed on April 4, 1948 and a ceremonious completion ceremony was held. More than 30,000 people from various provinces and cities of Ximan, consisting of party members, government functionaries, army soldiers and citizens gathered at Cemetery of Ximan Revolutionary Martyrs on April 5 to ceremoniously hold the burying and mourning for the revolutionary martyrs, and the main leaders from Ximan Branch Bureau and Ximan Military Area personally buried the heroic martyrs. The inscribed board of Cemetery of Ximan Revolutionary Martyrs personally inscribed by Huang Kecheng hangs high on the front gate. Chairman Mao Zedong inscribed the epigraph of Communism is insurmountable, a single spark can start a prairie fire, long live those dead martyrs! for the cemetery and Commander-in-chief Zhu De inscribed the epigraph of A noble spirit that will never perish for the cemetery. 608 martyrs are buried and bestowed at the cemetery, including Representative Yang Daohe of the Seventh People's Congress of CPC, Liaoji Hero Ma Renxing, Feng Kewu and Lv Mingren who once participated the December 9 Students National Salvation Movement , the people's artist Wang Dahua, the Acting Secretary General Ma Shitu of Nenjiang Province, and so on. 168 revolutionary martyrs are buried at the cemetery area, the ashes of 107 revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed in the War to U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea and Counterattack in Self-Defence in Zhenbao Island and the heroes who dedicated their lives for saving the state properties during socialist construction period and the spirit tablets of 333 martyrs are bestowed in the revolutionary martyrs mourning hall. There are 1 collective martyr's monument and 4 individual monuments and statues in the cemetery.

The Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Hall and the Revolutionary Martyrs Mourning Hall were established in front of the cemetery area in 1967. A 250㎡ reception room is newly built at the eastern part of the cemetery under approval from the Municipal and Provincial Government in July 1984. Cemetery of Ximan Revolutionary Martyrs was approved to be the Key Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Building Protection Unit in October 1988 by Heilongjiang Provincial Government. It was designated to be Key Patriotic Education Base in 1995 by National Ministry of Civil Affairs and it was designated to be National Key Protection Unit in June 1996 by the State Council of China.

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