Anyuan District

Anyuan
安源区
District

Location in Pingxiang City

Location of Pingxiang City in Jiangxi
Coordinates: 27°38′06″N 113°48′35″E / 27.63500°N 113.80972°E / 27.63500; 113.80972Coordinates: 27°38′06″N 113°48′35″E / 27.63500°N 113.80972°E / 27.63500; 113.80972
Country People's Republic of China
Province Jiangxi
Prefecture-level city Pingxiang
Population (2007)
  Total 445,403
Time zone UTC+8 (China Standard)

Anyuan District (simplified Chinese: 安源区; traditional Chinese: 安源區; pinyin: Ānyuán Qū) is a district of the city of Pingxiang, Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China.

The famous Maoist propaganda painting Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan is set in this location, depicting an occasion when the young Mao Zedong traveled to Anyuan to help lead a miners' strike.[1] The 1962 painting "Comrade Liu Shaoqi and the Anyuan Miners" portrays the same strike.[2]

The memorial of Anyuan

Notes

  1. Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan Stephan Landsburger's Chinese Posters Accessed January 31, 2013.
  2. Comrade Liu Shaoqi and the Anyuan Miners Stephan Landsburger's Chinese Posters Accessed January 31, 2013.


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