The pit and the strike
Anyuan was the biggest coalfield south of the Yangtze, and in September 1922 its workers stopped work and changed the country's politics.
Anyuan
Anyuan was the largest coalfield south of the Yangtze, and the pit sits inside a working district of the city. In September 1922 the Anyuan miners and railway workers struck under the leadership of Liu Shaoqi and Li Lisan, and the strike is remembered as one of the birthplaces of the Chinese workers' movement and of the armed workers' and peasants' army. The Anyuan Railway and Mine Workers' Movement Museum is on the national list of patriotic education sites.