Sino Japanese Friendship Garden

Sino Japanese Friendship Garden

The background of Sino Japanese Friendship Garden

The Sino Japanese Friendship Garden was built in 1995. Its predecessor was the "Japanese cemetery in founder area" approved by Premier Zhou Enlai of the State Council in 1963. The cemetery, which is only over 600 square meters, has affected the people and political circles in Japan. Many Japanese friends have been moved by it and become a place for Japanese friends to visit, receive education and enhance friendship with the Chinese people. With the development of normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, the exchanges between Japan and founder among the people and political circles have become increasingly frequent. Seizing this historic opportunity, the county Party committee and the county government have strengthened their work with Japan, and achieved two changes in the work of foreign affairs and overseas Chinese affairs from general welcome to cooperation in the economic field, and from frequent contacts among the people to cooperation between governments. Over the past four years since 1990, five visiting, investigation and negotiation groups with a total of more than 20 people have been sent to Japan. They have carried out extensive diplomacy with Japan and further publicized founder.

Landscape scope

Under such a historical background, in 1995, the county Party committee and the county government seized the opportunity of the 50th anniversary of the victory of the world anti fascist war and the Chinese people's Anti Japanese War, and received more than 60 Japanese friendly visiting groups with more than 2000 person times. They met each group with courtesy, sent them to China with enthusiasm, publicized founder, made friends and won support, and achieved remarkable results. A total of 2.9 million yen and 130000 US dollars, equivalent to more than 2.2 million yuan, were attracted to Japanese private investment. With the approval of the Provincial Foreign Affairs Department, the "Chinese adoptive parents cemetery", "peace and friendship Memorial", "exhibition hall" and garden gate were built. On the basis of the original Japanese cemetery, the scope has been expanded and the content has been enriched. In the spring of 1995, it was discussed and decided by the executive meeting of Fangzheng county government, and reported to the provincial government for approval. It was named "Sino Japanese Friendship Garden", and the scope of garden was redefined. The area of garden was expanded from 3000 square meters to 20000 square meters.

Reasons for the establishment of the park

On August 15, 1945, the fierce Japanese militarism declared unconditional surrender, and a large number of Japanese Guandong army became prisoners of war of the Soviet Red Army and the northeast people. At the end of the war, however, millions of Japanese pioneers who migrated to the Northeast lost their support and began to flee. Because Japanese militarism launched the Pacific War, there was a great shortage of troops, so they had to be recruited from the pioneers. All the pioneers over the age of 16, under the age of 45 and without major diseases were recruited. After the defeat and surrender, there were no men left in all the pioneers, only the old and weak women and children left. The Japanese government abandoned them. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the great and ethnic groups who were once invincible became prisoners of war and were taken into the Soviet Union by the Soviet Red Army. As a result, these orphans and widowed mothers had to form a group and start a difficult escape. During this period, the development group of Fangzheng County fled to Harbin First, but some of them were blocked on the way and returned to Fangzheng. From September to November 1945, a large number of pioneers in the Sanjiang (Jiamusi) area poured from the west of Mudanjiang into the deep mountains of zhangguangcailing in the south. Tens of thousands of refugees, with their children and daughters, are struggling in the mountains and wilderness. In the cold of autumn, the refugees who are short of food and clothing and suffering from diseases leave behind their bones, and a large number of refugees commit suicide in a desperate situation of no way to go and no way to retreat By about November, more than 10000 refugees had gathered in Fangzheng county. During this period, the Red Army of the Soviet Union had taken military control of Fangzheng County, and the waterway of yihantong wharf was cut off. These pioneers gathered in Jixing village near Paotai mountain in the southeast of Fangzheng county were tired and huddled in the houses of temporary construction and original pioneers. They were short of food and clothing, cold and sick. By March 1946, more than 5000 people had died, and more than 4000 women and children had been brought into their families by the kind Fangzheng people. He (she) or son, adopted daughter, or wife, in the death line to get a second life.

In February 1946, after the withdrawal of the Soviet Red Army, the Communist Party entered Fangzheng county and established the people's Government of Fangzheng county. Out of humanitarianism and great kindness, fangzheng county government organized a large number of people to transport the bodies of thousands of refugees from the development group who died near Paotai mountain and Jixing village to yangerxuan ditch in Paotai mountain. There were three piles of adult and child bodies, totaling more than 4500. The bodies were set on fire and burned, leaving behind three piles of bones.

In 1963, Premier Zhou Enlai of the people's Republic of China approved the establishment of "Japanese cemetery in Fangzheng area" in Fangzheng county. Heilongjiang provincial government allocated 10000 yuan to build a round, arched and cement "founder area Japanese cemetery" in the east of jixingcun reservoir and the north of the fort.

In April of the same year, Comrade Wang shi'en, Secretary of the Party branch of yihantong forest farm, launched 110 students led by Zhu Qing, head of yihantong agricultural middle school, to plant more than 500 mu of pine around Paotai mountain, covering the "Japanese cemetery in founder area" in the evergreen pine forest.

In 1975, Jixing village built a water conservancy project to transform the reservoir. With the approval of the provincial people's government, the cemetery was moved to the northern foot of Paotai mountain. This time, the provincial people's government allocated 50000 yuan to build a circular tomb with a diameter of 3 meters and a height of 1.5 meters. A marble monument with a height of 3.3 meters was erected on the north side of the tomb, which read "Japanese cemetery in founder area".

On October 19, 1984, a 30 member Japanese delegation led by Shi Shanfu moved the ashes of Japanese cemeteries in Mashan area to "Japanese cemeteries in Fangzheng area". Another cave was built, which was a round tomb. A stone tablet was erected in front of the tomb, and the inscription "Japanese cemeteries in Mashan area" was written on it, which stood side by side with "Japanese cemeteries in Fangzheng area" on the east side. The Japanese cemetery in Mashan area buries the remains of more than 530 refugees who committed suicide collectively.

On June 5, 1986, a Japanese Friendship delegation led by Gao Chengzhang moved the ashes of Wugui people in Hailun county to Fangzheng, but there was no self-supporting tombstone. The ashes were placed in the "Mashan Japanese cemetery". Since then, the remains of more than 5000 Japanese pioneers who died in other places in Heilongjiang (northern Manchuria during the puppet Manchu period) have been gathered here (excluding the remains that died in the mountains and rivers), which provides the conditions for the remaining Japanese pioneers to come to China for collective sacrifice. Although they are far away from home, they are grateful to the Chinese people for their great humanitarianism of repaying good for evil and ignoring past grudges. Of course, all the pioneers who have lost their relatives hate the homestead that the emperor created for their relatives.

In 1986, with the approval of the Ministry of foreign affairs, the provincial people's government allocated 60000 yuan to build a reception room of 59.5 square meters for the purpose of improving the "Japanese cemetery" here. Another 60000 yuan was allocated to build a special road for Japanese friends to pay homage to their relatives.

In May 1995, the chairman of Tokyo Dongshang Co., Ltd. Mr. uedo, funded the construction of "adoptive parents cemetery" for his adoptive father and adoptive mother. The tomb covers an area of 624 square meters, with a round body, 3 meters in diameter and 1.5 meters in height. The vault is made of cement. Facing the north, the granite tombstone, which is 3 meters high, is engraved with several big red characters: "Chinese foster parents cemetery". The tomb is a reinforced concrete structure, which is divided into five layers. On both sides of the main entrance of the cemetery, there are eight striking characters: "the kindness of nurturing will never be forgotten.".

Follow up to the establishment of the park

On July 30, 2011, a microblog about "Heilongjiang Province spent 700000 yuan to build a monument for the dead of Japanese invaders in order to attract Japanese investment" quickly fermented on the Internet. Fangzheng County, Heilongjiang Province, spent 700000 yuan to build a monument for the dead of Japanese invaders in order to attract Japanese investment for GDP and political achievements, the microblog said, calling the incident "a Chinese style monument drama.". As of 16 pm on the 31st, the microblog had been forwarded 81000 times by netizens, with more than 18000 comments. Netizen "deep blue sea" said: "what is the use of such GDP? What's the difference between investment and begging? Is it true that the Chinese people in Nuo Da have to beg for pity, even forget their national humiliation and give up their dignity in order to earn a few stinky money from Japan "This is an insult to our anti Japanese soldiers. What do government officials think of the dead martyrs?" It has caused extensive discussion in the society, and people have condemned this kind of behavior of Fangzheng county government. At 2:00 p.m. on August 3, 2011, five netizens from Henan, Hebei, Beijing and other provinces and cities drove to Fangzheng County, Heilongjiang Province, smashing the memorial erected by the local government for the "Japanese pioneer group". On the afternoon of August 4, 2011, at platform 2 of Beijing railway station, five young people who went to smash the monument in Fangzheng County of Heilongjiang Province returned to Beijing. Although the action was stopped, they said: "the monument will not fall for a day, we have to smash it." As a result, late at night on August 5, the fangzheng county government quietly demolished the stone tablet with Chinese faces, which had been erected since 2007! Fangzheng county official micro explanation is that the monument caused many netizens doubt, and the monument has been damaged, decided to deal with the monument. It should be said that it was the action of smashing the monument that made Fangzheng county make up its mind so quickly and close the field quickly! And founder

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