Xibaipo, located in Pingshan County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, is a national 5A red scenic spot with an area of 16440 square meters. Surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on one side, it faces Taihang Mountain in the west and Jizhong Plain in the east, 90 kilometers away from Shijiazhuang. The water surface area is 7000 mu. The region is located in the warm temperate zone, with semi-arid continental monsoon climate, four distinct seasons, cold and dry winter, hot and rainy summer, and the annual average temperature is 65438 02.5℃. The traffic here is very convenient, and it is easy to defend but difficult to attack in wartime. You can retreat to the mountains in an emergency and March into the city in a smooth time.
There are not only beautiful scenery here, but also fertile soil and water. Xibaipo, formerly known as Bobo, was founded in the Tang Dynasty and was named after the lush cypress trees on the back slope of the village. A teacher who lives opposite Dongbaipo Village once changed the word "cloth" to "slope" and later renamed it Xibaipo Village.
Pingshan County is the seat of the leading organs of the Fourth Army Division and the Second Army Division in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, and it is also a branch of central North China where the central leading organs once lived for three and a half years. After the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China moved to Xibaipo, he commanded the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Ping Jin, and held the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee and the National Land Conference with great historical significance. So as to liberate the whole of China, so there came the new China from here, and the fate of China was set in the reputation of this village.
At present, the former residences of Zhu De, Ren, Dong and others are mainly open to the outside world. Xibaipo Exhibition Hall has a building area of 6 100 square meters, with a total of 12 exhibition rooms. The exhibition focuses on the activities of the China People's Liberation Army in Xibaipo in the later period, and uses a large number of cultural relics. Xibaipo National Security Education Exhibition Hall and Xibaipo Memorial Hall are jointly built, with an exhibition area of 770 square meters. There are 85 photos 1 14 in the year, 22 abstracts, 7 dynamic models, 3 scene restorations and artistic reliefs 1 group, which truly shows the struggle history of our party's hidden front.