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  The Memorial Hall of Railway Workers' and Coal Miners' Movement in Anyuan, a museum in memory of the revolution, is located at Anyuan Town of Pingxiang City in Jiangxi Province, China. It used to be the site of the Anyuan Railway and Mine Workers' Club founded in 1956. In 1968, it was turned into an exhibition hall and opened to the public in 1969. In August 1984 it got the present name. The Memorial Hall occupies a land of 200mu(1mu= 1/15 ha.) with a total space of 3,245 square meters, 2,400 square meters of which are used for display.

The memorial hall has collected around 1,000 items, of which about 200 are Class One exhibits, including theAnyuan Monthly Periodical, share certificate of workers' consumer cooperative and purchase coupons. A long ballade entitledA Story of Laborers(a handwritten copy) with 1,600 lines composed collectively by the Anyuan workers is a very valuable historical collection, having a very important position in the history of modern Chinese literature.

The content of the memorial hall is divided into six parts, mainly introducing the history of the labor movement in Anyuan from 1921 to 1930 and reflecting the historic process of that period how the CPC and its outstanding representatives like Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Li Lishan, Chen Tanqiu, etc. combined Marxism-Leninism with the practice of the labor movement in Anyuan, how the organizations of the CPC, the League and the trade union were organized, how the workers were led to carry out strikes and enfold peasants' movement, how the revolutionary united front was founded, how armed struggles were carried out and how the cities were surrounded from the countryside and the power was seized.

The memorial hall once held a small-sized roadshow. In 1984, it founded the Pingxiang Revolutionary Martyrs' Memorial Hall with the cooperation of the related units.