Yangtze River Crossing Campaign Memorial Hall.

The Yangtze River Crossing Campaign Memorial Hall was officially opened in April 2012. The construction of the memorial hall began on October 26, 2008, on the shore of Chaohu Lake in the Hefei Binhu New District, Hefei City, Anhui Province. The construction site covers an area of about 220,000 square meters, and the main building of the memorial hall covers an area of about 20,000 square meters. The site is planned to be a peninsula protruding into Chaohu Lake, like a giant warship riding the wind and waves. The Yangtze River Crossing Campaign lasted for 42 days. The People's Liberation Army used wooden sailboats as the main means of crossing the river, breaking through the Kuomintang's Yangtze River defense line in one fell swoop, and combining mobile warfare and urban siege warfare to encircle and annihilate its heavy army group. In this battle, the People's Liberation Army suffered more than 60,000 casualties and annihilated 11 army divisions and 46 divisions of the Kuomintang army, totaling more than 430,000 people. It liberated major cities such as Nanjing, Shanghai, and Wuhan, as well as the entire territory of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, most of Zhejiang province, and parts of Jiangxi, Hubei, and Fujian provinces. This created important conditions for the subsequent liberation of the entire East China region and the march to the South and Southwest. The war affected the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign, also known as the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou Campaign, which lasted for 42 days. The People's Liberation Army used wooden sailboats as the main means of crossing the river, breaking through the Kuomintang's Yangtze River defense line in one fell swoop, and combining mobile warfare and urban siege warfare to encircle and annihilate its heavy army group. In this battle, the People's Liberation Army suffered more than 60,000 casualties and annihilated 11 army divisions and 46 divisions of the Kuomintang army, totaling more than 430,000 people. It liberated major cities such as Nanjing, Shanghai, and Wuhan, as well as the entire territory of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, most of Zhejiang province, and parts of Jiangxi, Hubei, and Fujian provinces. This created important conditions for the subsequent liberation of the entire East China region and the march to the South and Southwest.