Laiwu Battle Memorial Hall

Take Bus No.5 and alight at its terminal stop to arrive directly. Alternatively, take Bus No.2 or No.8 to the Rubber Factory Stop, then walk 200 meters north to reach the venue.

The Laiwu Battle Memorial Hall, formerly known as Laiwu Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery, was first built at the southern foot of Mining Hill in 1948 and relocated to the current site in 1972. It was renamed the Laiwu Battle Memorial Hall in 1996.

Perched on Huangshan Hill in downtown Laiwu, the memorial hall covers a land area of 82,000 square meters. It is one of the largest and highest-standard revolutionary martyrs memorial halls in Shandong Province, serving as an ideal venue for patriotism education, revolutionary tradition education, cultural and ethical progress education, as well as sightseeing.

The memorial hall was completed and opened to the public in July 1997. Standing on Huangshan Hill in central Laiwu, it spans 449,000 square meters. Its core complex consists of three major buildings arranged in a triangular layout: the Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Tower, the Laiwu Battle Exhibition Hall and the Laiwu Battle Panorama Hall. An open-air weapons exhibition ground is also available, with a total construction area of 8,100 square meters.

The 19-meter-high Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Tower is built of granite and ranks among China’s 100 key monumental steles. The Exhibition Hall contains five display galleries with over 700 square meters of exhibition panels; its title was inscribed by Su Yu. The panorama painting stands 17 meters high with a circumference of 120 meters, supported by a 1,100-square-meter ground modeling platform. Equipped with simulated sound effects, natural light simulation and an electric rotating viewing stand, it integrates sound, light, electricity and sculptural forms. By adopting vacuum illusion technology, strict perspective design and partial exaggeration techniques, it creates ultra-realistic visual effects and triggers boundless imagination within a limited space. Standing on the rotating stand, visitors feel fully immersed in the roaring gunfire and billowing smoke of the revolutionary battlefield, delivering a thrilling, immersive experience with powerful artistic appeal and high aesthetic value. At present, there are only over a dozen such large-scale panorama halls worldwide, four of which are located in China. Since last year, it has successively been awarded the titles of National Patriotism Education Demonstration Base, National Youth Education Base, National Key Protected Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Building, and National AAA-level Tourist Attraction.

Boasting a rational layout, magnificent architecture, pleasant surroundings, vivid and detailed historical materials and advanced exhibition technologies, the Laiwu Battle Memorial Hall is an outstanding venue for ideological and political education as well as tourism.

The Laiwu Battle was a large-scale mobile annihilation campaign waged by the East China Field Army under the command of Chen Yi, Su Yu and Tan Zhenlin in early 1947 in Shandong Province. The three-day fierce combat in the Laiwu region eliminated a total of 76,000 enemy troops, capturing or killing 23 senior military officers, recovering 13 county towns and dozens of strategic strongholds. It played a pivotal role in turning the tide of the war in East China and even the whole country, and is hailed as a brilliant model of mobile warfare.