Dalu Island, located in the Yellow Sea and at the mouth of the Yalu River, is known as the "Pearl of the Yellow Sea". Located AT the north end of China's Wanli Sea border and the largest island at the north end of China's coastline, the island covers an area of 6.6 square kilometers and has a permanent population of about 3,000 people. It is under the jurisdiction of Gushan Town, Donggang City, Dandong City, Liaoning Province. The island has a traditional fishing industry, as well as a burgeoning tourism industry. August and September every year is the peak tourist season of Dalu Island, the most tourist time, the number of people on the island nearly six thousand, unusually lively. Dalu Island has a very good ecological environment and lush plants, which is known as Hawaii in northern China.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dalu Island Resort is located on Dalu Island, 19 nautical miles south of Dagu Mountain, Donggang City, Dandong City, Liaoning Province, with a total area of 6.6 square kilometers and unique scenery. North and Dagushan across the sea, east and Swerdao Lip-tooth dependence, far island towering, the sea, like a sika deer lying in the Yellow Sea. With South Korea, North Korea adjacent, like a pearl inlaid in the Yellow Sea shore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the south sea, is the ancient battlefield of the Sino-Japanese "Sino-Japanese Naval Battle" which shocked the world. The Zhiyuan ship commanded by Deng Shichang, a famous patriotic general, still sleeps on the seabed nearby. To pay tribute to the heroes of Jia-Wu, Deng Shichang and all the soldiers and "Zhiyuan" as a symbol of the national spirit, visiting the past and tracing the present, let people sigh. Therefore, Dalu Island has become a well-known patriotism education base at home and abroad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dalu Island is mainly engaged in fishery production, but it is no longer a traditional fishing village. It has not only built tarmac roads, but also star hotels. The small buildings of fishing families are scattered in the sea. In the Yellow Sea in front of the island, where the Sino-Japanese naval battle took place, a towering statue of Deng Shichang, commander of the Zhiyuan ship, now stands. On the main peak, there are the Ming Dynasty's flag platform, the Ming Dynasty's fort on the west hill, the stone horse road between the mountain top and the seaside, as well as the excavated machetes, helmets, shells, etc., all engraved with the beacon fire of the past. The English lighthouse and Danish villas on the east hill add to the exotic charm of Big Deer Island.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moon Bay, in front of Dalok Island, is a natural bathing area. The coastline is 3 kilometers long, the depth is 1 kilometer, and the slope is only 1 meter. Beach sand is fine without seabed reef, for the country's rare high quality bathing. Visitors can chase waves on the beach and cruise the sea. At night, the neon lights on the shore are reflected in the sea. They are colorful, and the lights on the shore and in the water are dazzling. When it comes to the 13th day of the first lunar month, the birthday of the Goddess of the Sea, people on the island will go to the beach to send sea lanterns, and the Moon Bay has become a lamp world. There are many foreign visitors specially come to watch the sea lanterns.

 

 

 

Dandong Memorial Hall of Fighting against America and Aiding Korea

 

 

 

 

 

Dandong Memorial Hall for the national AAAA level tourist scenic spot, red tourism classic scenic spot, patriotism education base, national defense education base.

 

The Memorial Hall of Resisting America and Aiding Korea is located in the northeast border of the motherland, the national excellent tourist city - Dandong city. Located on the picturesque Yinghua Mountain surrounded by green mountains, it is the only large-scale military memorial hall in China that comprehensively reflects the history of the war against the United States and the movement to resist the United States and aid Korea.

 

 

 

The War of Resisting America and Aiding Korea was a just war waged by the government of the People's Republic of China at the request of the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to crush and defend the invasion of the DPRK by the United Nations Forces led by the United States from June 1950 to July 1953.

 

 

 

The Memorial Hall was built in 1958.

 

 

 

The museum covers a total area of 200,000 square meters, with a total construction area of 16,000 square meters. It is composed of three main buildings: the memorial tower, the exhibition hall and the panorama painting hall, and has a large open-air weapons exhibition field. At the bottom is a tower emblem carved in white marble consisting of flags, flowers and ribbons. The east and west sides of the upper end of the tower are inlaid with stone "Long live peace commemorative medallions" and "commemorative medallions of resisting the United States and Aiding Korea"; At the bottom of the back side of the pagoda is a 621-character Tawen inscribed with the heroic achievements of the Chinese People's Volunteers. In the center of the square is the former site of the Command post of the 13th Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteers, a provincial cultural relic protection unit with an area of 500 square meters. On the north side of the square stands a black marble gallery 3 meters high and 18 meters long, inscribed with "Who is the Loveliest Person" written in calligraphy by famous writer Wei Wei. The flower beds, pines and cysts, green Spaces and flowers on the square echo the memorial tower, the former site of the command post of the 13th Corps and the marble gallery, which are integrated into one whole, creating a pleasant, comfortable and beautiful tourism and leisure environment for the audience with a broad view.

 

 

 

The exhibition HALL IS a three-storey modern geometry building with national style in the shape of "product", with a building area of 4816 square meters. The main door is inlaid with seven gilded characters inscribed by Guo Moruo, "Memorial Hall of the Resistance to America and Aid Korea". Panorama hall is a diameter of 44.6 meters, 24 meters high cylindrical building, on display there are 16 meters high, 132.15 meters circumference of large painting of the qing dynasty replaced by panic in the wars, and configure a fuwa, lighting and acoustics, art reproduction, the north Korea the spectacle of the battlefield and grand war atmosphere, like the audience, as it were, Give a person with the shock of the heart. In addition to the three main buildings, the Memorial Hall also has a large open-air weapons display field of more than 2,000 square meters. Among the many weapons on display, The typical weapons include mig-15bi fighter, mig-15 fighter, Picture 2 bomber, T-34 medium tank, NCY self-propelled gun, M42 76 mm anti-tank gun, M38 122 mm anti-tank gun, Katyusha rocket launcher, and M1939 37 mm anti-aircraft gun.

 

 

 

The museum has a collection of 20,433 cultural relics and more than 6,000 pictures. Among them, 57 are first-class cultural relics and 202 are second-class cultural relics.

 

 

 

In March 2003, the second phase of reconstruction and expansion of the Memorial Hall was carried out. On May 1, 2004, the renovation of the exhibition hall was completed and opened to the public. The renovated exhibition hall is divided into seven parts: Prologuehall, War Hall of Resisting America and Aiding Korea, Movement Hall of Resisting America and Aiding Korea, Friendship Hall of China-Korea People, Hero Hall of Volunteer Army, Special Hall of Air Force, Tail Hall and so on. The exhibition hall is composed of more than 600 precious historical pictures and more than 1,000 representative precious cultural relics. Both in terms of design form and display content, it highlights the new concept of creating fine display and exhibition. The whole exhibition comprehensively uses cultural relics, documents, pictures, films and television, painting, plastic, sculpture, model, electronic touch screen, restoration display and other art forms and means. It comprehensively, systematically and vividly reflects the glorious history of the great War against America and Aid Korea and the great achievements of the volunteers, reaching the first-class level of exhibition in China. In particular, the exhibition hall of the Anti-America and Aid to Korea Sports Hall, the China-Korea People's Friendship Hall, the Hero Hall of the Volunteer Army and the End Hall fully reflect the important content of national unity. These pavilions, with their precious pictures and cultural relics, show that the people of all ethnic groups in China, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, have extensively and deeply carried out a great mass movement to support the Korean people and the Chinese People's Volunteer Army. Through the campaign of anti-American aid to the DPRK, the political consciousness of the people of all ethnic groups was greatly raised, the national self-esteem, self-confidence and cohesion were enhanced, and the patriotic enthusiasm and enthusiasm of the people of all ethnic groups were fully mobilized, thus effectively supporting the war of anti-American aid to the DPRK and promoting the smooth completion of the national economic recovery.

 

 

 

In ORDER TO GIVE FULL PLAY TO THE ROLE OF PATRIOTISM AND NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION base, THE MEMORIAL Hall has also built a special NATIONAL defense education Park, covering an area of 50,000 square meters, including weapons display area, military physical training area, military project expansion area, weapon simulation demonstration area, simulated position confrontation area, etc. Project design to adapt to the characteristics of adolescents, highlight the participation, into sex, sexual experience, both can visit for the study of rich content, and operational practice of the venue, facilities, can give to the implementation of the national defense education activities, may try to open in 2007, officially opened in June 2008, the year receives audience of more than 100000 people.

 

 

 

Since its opening 10 years ago, the Memorial Hall has received more than 4 million visitors from home and abroad. It has been named as the first batch of 100 "National Patriotism Education Demonstration Base", "National Primary and Secondary School Patriotism Education Base", "National 100 Classic Red Tourism Scenic Spots", and "Patriotism Education Demonstration Base of Liaoning Province". The PROVINCIAL NATIONAL Defense Education Commission NAMED it AS "LIAONING National Defense Education Base" and "Liaoning National Defense Education Demonstration Base" successively in December 1998 and April 2004, and THE provincial GOVERNMENT renamed it as "Liaoning National Defense Education Base" in April 2007.

 

 

 

Further reading:

 

 

 

· China's National Second-class Museum