西柏坡英语导游词

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西柏坡英语导游词

【篇一:西柏坡英文导游词】

xibaipo, a name echoing the glory of chinas revolutionary

history, is an ordinary 100-household village located in

pingshan county, hebei province. in may 1947, the partys

working committee chose this location and in may 1948, under

the leadership of comrade mao tse-tung, the partys central

committee and the headquarters of the chinese peoples

liberation army moved to this village. this made it the last rural

command center prior to the decisive battles between the

communist party and the kuomintang. xibaipos unique

contribution to the revolution has thus bestowed upon it a

name that shines in the history books of the chinese revolution,

setting up a historical monument with eternal glory.

in 1991 zhu muzhi, who was minister of the information office

of the state council then, wrote this inscription for xibaipo: the

destiny of china was determined in this village. his inscription

speaks highly of xibaipos historical status in china’s

revolution.

new china set off from here is a famous comment attributed

to the writer yan tao when he wrote a literary report on xibaipo,

entitled notes on the road to the east. this comment was also

used as a subtitle for the document, and is now widely quoted

as the best synopsis of xibaipos historic contribution.

xibaipo was selected to be the command center for both the

liberating of china and the planning of new china for various

reasons. not only did its unique geographic location and

natural surroundings best suit this purpose, xibaipo also had

developed into a strong revolutionary base over the years and

therefore stood out for its political preeminence.

xibaipo is a small village located on the northern banks of the

hutuo river running through the jixi mountainous region. not

only does it have beautiful scenery, but also rich and fertile

soil. the village is located in the middle of pingshan county, at

the crossroads between the north china plateau and taihang

mountain. poised in a horse-foot-shaped valley oriented

toward the sun, xibaipo is surrounded by mountains on its

three sides and by water on one side. to its west, it embraces the gateway to taihang mountain, and to its east, it borders the

jizhong plateau. the village is only 90 km from shijiazhuang, a

strategically important city in the north china region. xibaipo

enjoys convenient transportation facilities and is distinguished

as a military location of strategic importance. occupying this

location provides for flexibility in either withdrawing into the

mountains at a time of emergency or for advancing into cities

when necessary.

revolutionary activity started early in pingshan county. during

the period of the great revolution in the 1920s, the party set up

its own organization here. by 1946, there were 608 branch

offices, and the number of party members had increased to

19,535, from just 30 members in 1931. the party gained popular

support at the grassroots level. after the war against the

japanese invasion, pingshan county was surrounded by two

revolutionary bases, i.e. shanxi-chaha’er-hebei and shanxi-hebei-shandong-he’nan, and located here were the command

posts of the 4th as well as the 2nd military sub-areas within the

shanxi-chaha’er-hebei region. the headquarters of the partys

northern bureau, the shanxi-chaha’er-hebei regional

government and the shanxi-chaha’er-hebei military region

were also located in pingshan county for three and half years.

pingshan is seen as a model county in the shanxi-chaha’er-hebei region, and xibaipo regarded as a model village. xibaipo

set up its party organization in 1937. by 1948, the number of

party members had increased to 40 members coming from 33

households, accounting for 12.3% of the total population and

33% of the total number of households. in the neighboring area,

the villages were lined up quite densely along the hutuo river,

with an average distance of 1 to 2 km from each other. xibaipo

was close to both the mountains and the river, and known for

its rich and fertile soil. given its favorable agricultural

conditions, xibaipo has two harvest seasons each year. when

commenting on the economic conditions in xibaipo and

pingshan, general nie rongzhen noted: pingshan county can

be perceived as the ukraine of the shanxi-chaha’er-hebei

region. the relatively developed agricultural economy helped to

guarantee logistic support to both troops and the common

people, and provided a material base for the partys central

committee.