On March 1948 and 14, Chen Geng and Xie Fuzhi Corps of the Central Plains Field Army and Chen Shiju and Tang Liang Corps of the East China Field Army conquered Luoyang in one fell swoop; On April 5 of the same year, the ninth column of Chen and Xie Corps took Luoyang again. In the two battles to liberate Luoyang, PLA officers and men fought bravely, fought bloody battles and wrote magnificent poems.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China attached great importance to this famous battle. 1April 8, 948, Mao Zedong personally drafted a telegram manuscript for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China-"telegram to Luoyang front headquarters after recovering Luoyang". Because its content is applicable not only to Luoyang, but also to all newly liberated cities, this telegram was sent to leading comrades in other front lines and other regions at the same time.

Mao Zedong's telegram manuscript is engraved on the right side of the Revolutionary Martyrs Monument in Luoyang Martyrs Cemetery. In the middle of the monument is the English list of revolutionary martyrs. At the top right is Chen Geng's inscription: "Struggle for People's Liberation", and at the bottom is Chen Shiju's inscription: "In the forty years of the Spring and Autumn Period, Luoyang was still in full bloom, the ancient city was reborn in the spring, and Longmen was drunk with peony by the sun."

1987, Luoyang Martyrs Cemetery was listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in Henan Province. 1994 was approved by the Ministry of Civil Affairs as the first batch of 100 patriotic education bases for young people in China.