By DENG RUI and TAN YINGZI | China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-27 09:21 Share CLOSE The Guiyuan Garden is among the abundant wartime historical and cultural sites in Chongqing. [Photo provided to China Daily]
On July 1, the Communist Party of China, the world s largest political party with more than 90 million members, celebrated its centenary. As the summer tourist season begins and interprovincial group tours resume around the country, red tourism continues to boom in Chongqing, a city which boasts abundant wartime historical and cultural sites and relics.
Chongqing has a glorious revolutionary history. The city made major contributions to consolidating and strengthening the united front, an early form of multiparty cooperation, and winning the victory of the new-democratic revolution.
Negotiations early proof of CPC s diplomatic skills By TAN YINGZI in Chongqing | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-02-22 08:56 Share CLOSE The Gui Garden in Chongqing, which hosted the Chongqing Negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China in 1945. TAN YINGZI/CHINA DAILY
In the heat of August 1945, the Gui Garden on Zhongshansi Road in downtown Chongqing attracted wide attention at home and from abroad, with international reporters waiting day and night outside the quaint, private villa as a significant meeting about the country s future was held in the wartime capital.
The Chongqing Negotiations, 43 days of top level negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, was an important political event at a crucial moment when China faced a choice between war and peace after the victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).