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The position as an important port of China and the location near the capital city of Beijing has given Tianjin a significant role to play in the revolutionary history.
Beiping-Tianjin Memorial Hall
The Museum of the Beiping-Tianjin Campaign is on the western side of the bridge over the Ziya River in Tianjin. The museum occupies 47,000 square meters of ground and was completed and opened to the public in 1997.
The Exhibition Hall is magnificent in style and covers 17,000 square meters of floor space. It is divided into three sections, including the Prelude Hall, War History Hall, and Special Subjects Hall. A group sculpture stands at the centre of the Prelude Hall against the background of a large wall painting. The history of the Beiping-Tianjin Campaign is told in the museum through photographs, relics and weapons.
The Beiping-Tianjin Campaign was a decisive campaign fought between November 29, 1948 and January 31, 1949, by the PLA Northeast Field Army, two armies of the North China Field Army, and part of the local armed forces against Kuomintang troops over an area extending from Zhangjiakou in the west to Tanggu and Tangshan in the east, including Beiping and Tianjin. The People's Liberation Army wiped out the defending Kuomintang forces in Xinbao'an, Zhangjiakou and Tianjin. Owing to efforts to win them over and as a result of negotiations, the defending enemy forces in Beiping, commanded by Fu Zuoyi, commander-in-chief of the enemy's North China "Bandit Suppression" Headquarters, accepted reorganization by the PLA, and Beiping was liberated peacefully. During the campaign more than 520,000 Kuomintang troops were wiped out or reorganized, and North China was liberated. (Source: enorth.com)