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In December 1953, the Jinjiang District Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to appoint Liang Xinmin as the mayor of Kinmen County and deputy county magistrate of Nan'an County, and Liu Jigu was appointed secretary of the Kinmen County Working Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Liang Xinmin, the first county magistrate of Kinmen County of the Communist Party of China
In May 1955, the Fujian Provincial People's Government officially announced the establishment of the Kinmen County People's Government, but in fact it was empty-handed because the then county magistrate Liang Xinmin also served as the deputy county magistrate of Nan'an County. The office is located in the Nan'an County People's Government compound. In fact, it only controls Dadeng Island , Xiaodeng Island and nearby islands in Kinmen County, and sets up Dadeng District. Since then, there has been a confrontation between the two "Kinmen County Governments" between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Liang Xinmin, the head of Kinmen County in the People's Republic of China, has never set foot in Kinmen in his life.
In 2002, Xu Yuzhao, a member of the Kinmen County Council of the Republic of China, proposed to hire Liang Xinmin as a county consultant to the Kinmen County Government.
At 6:30 pm on August 23, 1958, the artillery of the Chinese People's Liberation Army began to violently bombard Kinmen. Within two hours, more than 40,000 rounds of bombs were dropped, and the number of bombs dropped reached more than 57,000 at the end of the day. The main command posts, Observation posts, transportation centers, key fortifications and artillery positions. As it was dinner time, the sudden artillery fire caused more than 440 casualties. Three deputy commanders of the Kinmen Defense Command, Zhao Jiaxiang and Zhang Jie, died on the spot. Ji Xingwen was seriously injured and died of his injuries later. Commander of the Kinmen Defense Department Hu Lian , Chief of Staff Liu Mingkui, and Taiwanese Defense Minister Yu Dawei who was inspecting Kinmen were all injured. US Secretary of State Dulles issued a warning to the mainland that the United States would regard any attempt to seize Kinmen and Matsu as a threat to peace.
Nephew of Ji Hongchang, Deputy Commander of Kinmen Defense, National Army Lieutenant General Ji Xingwen
On August 24, 1958, the People's Liberation Army continued to attack the National Army's beachhead position in Kinmen, Liaoluo Bay pier, Kinmen Shangyi Army Airport and The artillery positions concentrated fire attacks. The national army launched a counterattack against the People's Liberation Army artillery positions that attacked the airport and docks. Then the PLA artillery fire decreased slightly.
The offensive resumed from September 7 to 18, 1958. The main target of the People's Liberation Army is Shuitou Wharf, intending to prevent the Taiwan authorities from carrying out sea and air transportation and replenishment work in order to achieve the purpose of blocking Kinmen.
In January 1971, mainland China officially placed the People's Commune of Dasheng, the only territory under actual control of Kinmen County, under the jurisdiction of Tong'an County, Jinjiang region.
In January 1980, mainland China placed Kinmen County under the jurisdiction of the Jinjiang Regional Administrative Office. After January 1986, it has been under the jurisdiction of Quanzhou City (without actual control).
May 13, 2008, according to decrypt According to U.S. military documents, after the Kinmen artillery battle began, the U.S. Air Force told U.S. President Eisenhower that once the president authorized the use of nuclear bombs, the People's Liberation Army's attacks on outlying islands (such as Kinmen) would immediately be subject to nuclear attacks by the U.S. military. The U.S. military's Kadena Air Base in Ryukyu stores two nuclear weapons, MK-6 and MK-39.
After mid-August 1958, if the PLA Army’s nuclear air strikes failed to suppress the PLA immediately, Guam The US military’s Andersen Air Force Base had five B-47 bombers on standby to take off and bomb mainland airports.
