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During the years of the Great Cultural Revolution 文化大革命 (1966-1976), big parts of the Chinese youth were mobilized in order to push the revolution and to realize the plans of their leader, Mao Zedong 毛 泽东 (1893-1976). &#160;Mao used his young supporters to strengthen his position in the CCP and to extend his personal cult (Schmidt-Glintzer 2008: 228), as has been well documented by important works on this decade (Leese 2011, Mittler 2012, Schoenhals 1996). Indeed,not only during the Cultural Revolution, children were used for politicalpurposes. In1935, the Communist Party began to found Tour Groups, in which children and adolescentswere educated in Marxist-Leninist-thought. During the Second Sino-Japanese War,they had participated in the fight against the Japanese invaders. Today,the Xin’an Tour Group Revolutionary History Exhibition Hall 新安旅行团革命历史陈列馆,which is located in Chuzhou District 楚州区 nearthe city Huai’an 淮安市, is dedicated to theseyoung party fighters. In 1985, fifty years after the foundation of the Tour Group, the exhibition hall was built. According to the Website “Red Tourism “, the exhibition hall tells the so-called glorious history of the Xin’an Tour Group.As it is claimed on several tourist websites on “Baidu”, the exhibition hall is divided into six thematical showrooms. Thefirst room portrays the founding history of the Tour group, which is summarisedunder the title “Born in the years of growing national difficulties 在国难日益深重的岁月里诞生”. The second room “Fighting in a difficult anddangerous environment 在艰辛险恶的环境中奋战“shows the first conflicts with the Japanese army. Thethird chamber “Growing up in the sunshine of the base 在根据地的阳光下成长mainly deals with the everyday life of group membersin the base, whereas the showroom “In the fire of the liberation war 在解放战争的炮火中锤炼“is about the real act of war against the Japanese Invaders. The exhibition “Going on the Journey to New China” “在新中国的征途上前进 emphasizes the role of the Xin’an Tour Group relating to the PRC- founding. The last room is named “Let the revolutionary spirit of the new brigade pass from generation to generation” 让新旅革命精神世代相传 and dedicated to the revolutionary heritage of the Xin’an Tour Group. TheXin’an Tour Group Revolutionary History Exhibition Hall is good evidence forthe assumption that mobilisation of children for political employment was nocreation of the Cultural Revolution, but already was applied thirty yearsbefore. Bibliography:Denton,Kirk A. (2014): Exhibiting the Past – Historical memory and the Politics ofMuseum in Postsocialist China. Honolulu: University ofHawai’i Press. Leese,Daniel (2011): Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural Revolution.New York: Cambridge University Press. Mittler,Barbara (2012): A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of CulturalSchmidt-Glintzer,Helwig (2008): Kleine Geschichte Chinas. München: C.H. Beck Verlag. Schoenhals,Michael (1996): China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969: Not ADinner Party. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk.&#160;Zarrow,Peter (2005): China in war and revolution, 1895 – 1949. London:Routledge Verlag. WebsiteRed Tourism: www.redtourism.com.cn/tris/front/zh_CN/spot_640.htmlList of Pictures: Featured Image: Defend the islands with one mind, rebuild the islands as one family (source: https://chineseposters.net/posters/e15-610.php, designer: Gao Guoqiang (高国强), Call number: BG E15/610 (Landsberger collection) (Stefan R. Landsberger Private Collection)) 