Is the Chongqing National Government now open to the public?
Open to the top. According to a news report in Chongqing Morning Post cited by China News on March 26, 2014, the old site of the Chongqing National Government Military Commission will be divided into two parts after the completion of the restoration work, which will display a variety of important cultural relics and archives of the National Government Military Commission during the period of the war, and will be open to the public as a new exhibition hall.
The main building of the original anti-war national government building for the Chinese classical wooden structure building, in front of the road, back against the hillside, 52 meters long, 20 meters wide, the base is 2 meters high, the floor area of 2080 square meters, high spacious door decorated with a monument Pavilion piers and columns two. The building is built on a tall stone pedestal, the shape is solemn and spectacular.
The gate **** divided into three, the middle of a slightly higher than the side, quite lofty. It is this old building has not seen very clear, back then, "Huaxi Daily" had to "its step by step up the road ladder, just like a symbol of the future of the new China's road" sentence to describe its majesty and grandeur.
Expanded Information:
Chongqing National Government (December 1937) 1, 1937 - April 23, 1946), was the capital of China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the political, military, economic, and cultural center of China's Great Rear, the political arena of the anti-Japanese national united front, and the Far Eastern Command Center of the World Anti-Fascist War.
After the "Lugou Bridge Incident" in 1937, Japan invaded China and pushed towards Nanjing, and the situation was very critical. on November 17, 1937, the Chairman of the National Government, Mr. Lin Sen, led the officials of the National Government to evacuate from Nanjing, and issued the "Declaration on the Relocation of the National Government to Chongqing" in Wuhan three days later, announcing that the capital had been relocated to Chongqing, which officially assumed the responsibility for the war in China.
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its surrender, and on April 23, 1946, the Nationalist Government issued an order to restore the Chongqing camp of the President of the Nationalist Government in Chongqing, with the imminent return of the Nationalist Government to the capital of Nanjing.
On May 5, the Nationalist Government returned to the capital of Nanjing, and Chongqing's mission as the wartime capital came to an end.
Reference China News - Chiang Kai-shek's old Chongqing camp will be open to the public in August
What was the camp during the KMT period?
The full name of the camp is "Military Commission Chairman's Camp", i.e. the place where Chiang Kai-shek left the capital (Nanjing or Chongqing) to deal with military affairs, or the place where the military officers were stationed as the representatives of his supreme commander.
After the end of the war, the Kuomintang in order to take care of the seniority and seize territory and other non-combat missions, and the expansion of the command structure for the headquarters - battalion (regulators) - Pacification Office (war zone) - Pacification District - Corps / integrated Army
The Pacification Administration and now the provincial party committee plus the provincial government plus the provincial military region is almost the same, the director of the line camp and the early liberation of the East China Military and Political Committee is almost the same, is the management of the region of more than one province of the party, government and military, more than the current large military region.
The Military Commission of the National Government Chongqing camp (referred to as "Chiang Kai-shek Chongqing camp" or "Chongqing camp"), is located in Chongqing City, Yuzhong District, No. 14, Jiefang West Road.
According to preliminary expert testimony, "Chongqing camp" was built at the end of 1935. After the national government issued the "Military Commission Chairman Chongqing Camp", Gu Zhutong was appointed as the director of the camp, which covered the entire southwest of China, including Sichuan, Kham, Guizhou and Tibet.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, the national government moved its capital to Chongqing. Chiang Kai-shek, as chairman of the National Government's Military Commission, initially had his official residence in the "Chongqing Camp".
"Chongqing Camp" is a complex of three two-floor, one-bottom brick and wood buildings, belonging to the Republic of China period of Chinese and Western architectural style. The ground floor of the stone plate hidden under a direct Yangtze River side of the "dark road".
Cultural relics experts believe that the "Chongqing camp" was the highest center of the country at that time, the construction of the "cul-de-sac" is mainly for emergency escape.
In 2008, one after another, netizens reflect the "Chongqing camp" in disrepair. 2009, as Chongqing City, an important anti-war sites, "National Government Military Commission Chongqing camp" site is listed as a municipal cultural relics protection units, in November 2011, the site of the "Chongqing camp", "Chongqing", "Chongqing", "Chongqing", "Chongqing", "Chongqing", "Chongqing", "Chongqing", "Chongqing", "Chongqing" and "Chongqing". In November 2011, the site of the protection program through the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics approval.
Expanded Information
The word "palace" was used in ancient times for the emperor to go on a tour and temporarily establish a place to stay, also known as the "imperial camp", and then gradually evolved into a specialized institution to deal with affairs and exercise power on behalf of the emperor. "Later, it evolved into a specialized institution to handle affairs and exercise power on behalf of the emperor. In ancient times, the term "yamen" referred to the pavilions of high-ranking officials, which did not have the meaning of imperial power.
To the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek not only likes to make the emperor's technique, its military dictatorship is also very rich in feudalism, so in the advice of the staff, the naming of many military institutions is also very much imitation of the ancient times, such as the "line camp" and "regimentation" of these two titles from the early 1930s onwards, after a long period of time, the first generation. The first 30 years of the new generation, through the Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance against Japan, has existed until the middle of the War of Liberation.
The so-called "traveling camp", the full name is "the chairman of the Military Commission somewhere traveling camp", that is, Chiang Kai-shek away from the capital (Nanjing or Chongqing) to deal with the military affairs of the resident, or as the representative of the supreme commander of the military officers of his residence, because Chiang Kai-shek The position he held for the longest time was Chairman of the Military Commission of the National Government, a title with strong military overtones.
Reference
Baidu Encyclopedia - Xingying
Baidu Encyclopedia - Chiang Kai-shek Chongqing Xingying
Chongqing Baishiyi to Chongqing Kai-shek how to take the bus
Bus line: 299 Road, the full about 30.8 kilometers
1, from the Baishiyi town walking about 540 meters, to the Baishiyi five hospitals Junction
2、Take No.299, after 18 stops, arrive at Heping Road Riyueguang Square Station
3、Walk about 1000 meters, arrive at the former site of Chiang Kai-shek's Chongqing camp
Bus line: No.287 → Railway Transit Line No.1, the whole journey is about 28.2 kilometers
1、From Baishiyei Town, walk about 760 meters, arrive at Baishiyei Wuhuanyuan Junction Station
2, Take No.287 Road, after 10 stops, arrive at Shiqiaopu (Yu Jing Xintiandi) Station
3, walk about 840 meters, arrive at Shiqiaopu Station
4, take Railway Transportation Line 1, after 7 stops, arrive at Beichangkou Station
5, walk about 1.0 kilometers, arrive at Chiang Kai-shek's old camp in Chongqing