The Victory Park for Xiangxi Bandit Suppression is located at Gongyuan Road in Chenxi County. It covers an area of approximately 4,000 square meters. During the Republican era (1912-1949), it was known as West Garden and served as the seat of the county government. In 1952, to commemorate the revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the bandit suppression battles in Xiangxi, it was renamed Xiangxi Bandit Suppression Victory Park. Within the park stands the Yuanling Bandit Suppression Victory Memorial Hall. The park is home to over 700 trees, including parasol trees, locust trees, pines, cypresses, and camphor trees. In front of the hall, a smaller garden is laid out, featuring sweet osmanthus, southern magnolia, cedar, Rohdea japonica, and green bamboo groves. Flanking the park’s main entrance are two pavilions styled in ancient architectural form. The park is shaded by towering trees, and filled with flowers that bloom through all four seasons.

The Yuanling Bandit Suppression Victory Memorial Hall stands as the most intact and largest national landmark commemorating the victory over banditry in Xiangxi. The memorial hall measures 45 meters in length, 17 meters in width, covering an area of 1,050 square meters. It houses a conference hall that accommodates up to one thousand people. The central main gate tower is 9 meters high. Above the main entrance are the words “Yuanling Bandit Suppression Victory Memorial Hall.” On the walls flanking the gate are two large stone tablets: on the right is a commemorative monument inscribed by the CPC Yuanling District Committee, Hunan Yuanling Commissioner’s Office, and Yuanling Military Subdistrict; on the left is a roll of honor listing the 174 martyrs who fell during the bandit suppression campaigns.

Currently, the park is a patriotic education base in Hunan Province that integrates cultural relics protection, cultural industry, tourism and leisure, and revolutionary traditional education, with unique natural resources.

(Translated by Yang Hong)