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The Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region Headquarter Ruins 阜平县城南庄晋察冀军区司令部旧址 located in Fuping County is a key heritage site protected at the national level (全国重点文物保护单位). It is the only intact site of a commanding headquarter in Hebei where Mao Zedong and other members of the central party such as Zhou Enlai 周恩来 (1898-1976) and Ren Bishi 任弼时 (1904-1950) stayed for a period of 46 days when moving from Yan’an 延安 to Xibaipo 西柏坡 in spring 1948. The Jin-Cha-Ji Anti-Japanese Operations Base晋察冀抗日根据地 is lauded in Communist historiography as the first anti-Japanese base established in Northern China, once praised by Mao Zedong in 1939 as a model to emulate for the rest of the country (抗日模范根据地, see here). The site houses a memorial hall established in 1972 and became a place for patriotic education in Hebei in 1995. It is dedicated to the revolutionary struggle of Communist Party in the Civil War where the visitors can see artifacts from that time, a bronze statue of marshall Nie Rongzhen 聂荣臻, as well as the living quarters and offices of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai and a 200 meters long air-raid shelter. Photos and writings document the work of party leadership, pointing especially to Mao Zedong’s texts such as Essential Points in Land Reform in the New Liberated Areas (《新解放区农村工作的策略问题》, written 15 February 1948), The Work of Land Reform and of Party Consolidation in 1948 (《一九四八年的土地改革和整党工作》, written 25 May 1948), and Remembering the Slogan of the May 1st Labor Day (《纪念“五一”劳动节口号》, written 30 April 1948, see here).