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Yan'an Revolutionary Sites 延安革命纪念地Yán'ān Gémìng Jìniàndì
5A scenic area · National heritage site · Yan'an, Shaanxi
- Time needed
- 1 day
- Days to budget
- 1 day
- City
- Yan'an
- Region
- Shaanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 5A scenic area, National heritage site
About Yan'an Revolutionary Sites
The compounds where the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee lived and worked while it was based in Yan'an from January 1937 to March 1947 are spread across the city: the cave dwellings, offices and assembly halls of Yangjialing, where the party's Seventh National Congress met in 1945, Zaoyuan (Date Garden), Wangjiaping, Fenghuang Hill and the former Northwest Bureau. The Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall at Wangjiaping, founded in 1950 and reopened in a new building in 2009, displays documents, photographs and relics from those years. On Pagoda Hill (Baota Shan) above the city stands a nine-storey Ming-dynasty brick pagoda, about 44 m tall, which became a symbol of Yan'an and of the Communist revolution.
How to get to Yan'an Revolutionary Sites
In and around central Yan'an: the Memorial Hall and Wangjiaping are in the city centre, Yangjialing is about 2.5 km north-west and Zaoyuan about 7 km north-west, all easy by city bus or taxi; since December 2025 Yan'an has been about 70 minutes from Xi'an North by high-speed train.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Qingliang Mountain and Wanfo Caves 清凉山万佛洞 (under 10 km), Former Border Region High Court 陕甘宁边区高等法院旧址 (under 10 km).
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