Daye Municipal People's Procuratorate performs its public interest litigation function and promotes the renovation of the Nanshantou Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Wall. (Photo by correspondent Yang Yunhong)
Hubei Daily All-Media Reporter Gong Xue Correspondent Yang Yunhong
Daye is a bronze hometown and a red cultural destination. The results of the third national cultural relics survey of showed that 4456 immovable cultural relics were found in the city, including 44 national key cultural relics protection units, 12 provincial cultural relics protection units, 57 municipal cultural relics protection units, and 14 county-level cultural relics protection units; and 40 non-state-owned ancient buildings cultural relics protection units at Huangshi.
In recent years, the Daye Municipal Procuratorate has issued pre-trial prosecutorial recommendations to relevant administrative law enforcement agencies through public interest litigation, urging them to perform their duties in accordance with the law and protect red resources.
is the name of 3721 revolutionary martyrs. It is located at the end of the Mufu Mountains in and is connected to Luoxiao Mountains in . There are 63 revolutionary sites hidden among the mountains and ridges. In February 1926, the first peasant association in southeast Hubei was established here; in August 1928, the Daye Central County Party Committee was established in Jingong Temple, which was the first red regime in Daye City. In 1930, Peng Dehuai and others led the Red Fifth Army to southeastern Hubei from Jinggangshan, stationed in Nanshantou, opened up China's second revolutionary base, led the first, second and third anti-encirclement and suppression in southeastern Hubei, and achieved major victories. Nanshantou is the earliest leadership core and command center of our party in southeastern Hubei. More than a hundred generals came out from here...
Daye City established the "Daye Nanshantou Revolutionary Memorial Hall" in 1984, including the Revolutionary Martyrs Monument, the former site of the Jinshan Temple of Daye Central Committee, and the Dehuai Well. In front of the Revolutionary Martyrs Monument, there are 11 stone tablets of heroes, carving the heroic names of revolutionary martyrs who died in Daye City from the Agrarian Revolution to the Liberation War. Liu Jiayun, a prosecutor of Daye City Procuratorate, introduced that these stone tablets were carved in 1974 and have experienced nearly 50 years of storms. The stone has been severely weathered and its handwriting is blurred. In addition, the wooden structure of the house was eroded by termites in the former site of the Jinshan Temple of Daye Central Committee. The beams of the former site of the Red 12th Army’s founding army were rotten, some walls collapsed, tiles fell, and house safety was in danger, and protection of the red ruins was imminent.
After discovering the above situation during public interest litigation supervision, the Daye Municipal Procuratorate successively sent three procuratorial recommendations to the Daye Municipal Veterans Affairs Bureau and Daye Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau. The two units attached great importance to it, and the Daye Municipal Veterans Affairs Bureau re-selected a new wall of martyrs' heroes in the memorial hall. Nowadays, the names of 3,721 heroes on the wall of martyrs' heroes are shining and solemn; Daye Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau promptly manages termites and strengthens the daily management of the Jinshan Temple site.
Renovate and protect the red ruins and take the red tourism of Nanshan Village in Huohuo. Zheng Changbing, secretary of the village party branch, introduced that in the first half of the year, more than 100,000 tourists came here, and villagers set up farmhouses and B&B , and the village's collective economy was very exciting.
The former residence of the martyrs has been renovated
The gate of the former residence of the martyrs Rao Huitan is opened, and a group of old photos are recreated, and the old wood carving bed is well preserved.
Rao Huitan was born in 1915 in a poor peasant family in Nanshantou, Yinzu Town, Daye. He joined the party in the spring of 1933. He fought south and north, and experienced the Second Civil Revolutionary War , the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, and the War of Resistance and Aid Korea.
On March 21, 1953, Rao Huitan, who was then the chief of staff of the 23rd Army of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, died on the Korean front due to enemy aircraft bombing. He was only 38 years old. He was one of the four senior generals who died in the fight against U.S. aggression and aid Korea. At the end of 1955, Rao Huitan's remains were moved from North Korea to the motherland and buried in the Martyrs Cemetery of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.
In August 2018, during the performance of his duties, police officers from Daye Municipal People's Procuratorate found that Rao Huitan's former residence was identified as a cultural relics protection unit in Huangshi City in 2016, but the former residence was disrepaired for a long time, the roof of the wooden structure fell off, and the walls were leaking and damaged.
After investigation and evidence collection, the Daye Municipal People's Procuratorate initiated the pre-trial procedure for the protection of public interest litigation by heroes and martyrs, and issued procuratorial recommendations to the relevant competent departments and local governments respectively.The Standing Committees of the People's Congresses at Huangshi City and Daye City went to the site to understand the situation and put forward rectification opinions. At the same time, it has also received positive responses from relevant administrative agencies and local governments. Through the joint efforts of all parties, Rao Huitan's former residence was renovated.
Procuratorate Liu Jiayun, a prosecutor of Daye Municipal People's Procuratorate, said: "After Rao Huitan's former residence was built, it was connected with the nearby General Pavilion, General Sculpture, the former site of Daye Central County Party Committee and the former site of the Red Twelfth Army, becoming the main base of patriotic education in the new era in Daye City."
raised 600,000 yuan to repair the ruins of the Red Third Army Hospital
On September 15, on the campus of Daye Experimental Middle School, a two-story century-old building, a blue brick dome, and wooden floors, repaired as old as before.
This is the former site of Puai Hospital when Marshal Peng Dehuai led the Red Fifth Army to conquer Daye County for the third time in 1930. In June 2018, the Daye Municipal People's Government officially identified the former site as the former site of the Red Third Army Hospital, the cultural relics protection unit of Daye City.
In September 2021, the prosecutor of the Daye Municipal People's Procuratorate discovered during his performance of his duties that the interior walls of the former site were damaged, the doors and windows were missing, the floor was rotten, and the main structure was seriously damaged. It has been identified as a D-level dangerous house by the housing and construction department. Although Daye Experimental Middle School has carried out simple reinforcement and maintenance many times, it cannot be repaired or protected in a substantial manner.
Daye Municipal People's Procuratorate publicly delivered the procuratorial recommendation to Daye Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau and Dongyue Road Street Office after investigation and verification and public hearing. After the procuratorial proposal was issued, Hao Shengyong, member of the Standing Committee of the Huangshi Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Daye Municipal Party Committee, issued an instruction requiring relevant departments to perform their duties in accordance with the law. After many consultations, 600,000 yuan of repair funds were obtained from the municipal government.
Multiple departments work together to restore the former site of the Red Third Army Hospital. Wang Jing, the Procurator General of Daye Municipal People's Procuratorate, introduced: "In recent years, Daye Municipal People's Procuratorate has fully fulfilled its public interest litigation function, continuously expanded new areas of public welfare protection, handled a series of red relics protection cases, urged administrative agencies to perform their duties, and promoted the protection of red resources."
