History of Haifeng-Lufeng Revolutionary Base short, but powerful

The Haifeng-Lufeng Revolutionary Base, as its name suggests, mostly covers present-day Haifeng county and Lufeng city. Both places are administered by Shanwei city, Guangdong province.

The ups and downs of the base are largely linked to Peng Pai, acclaimed by Mao Zedong as the "King of Peasant Movements", who was raised in a wealthy family of landowners in Haifeng but devoted himself to the liberation of farmers and workers.

Born in 1896, Peng studied in Japan before returning to establish China's first farmers' association in 1922, where he spread communist ideals and theories to the underprivileged and called for members to unite against landlords and old feudal taxes. He formally joined the Communist Party of China in 1924 and wrote a report on peasant movements in Haifeng in 1926, the first such book in the history of the CPC.