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Seventy-eight years ago, a group of young Communist Party members led local peasants and workers to unleash an armed revolution, historically known as the Huangma Uprising. They took Hong’an as the center to set up the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet red regime. During the war, 140,000 Hong’an men and women dedicated their lives. On the blood-stained land there emerged two presidents of the People’s Republic, Dong Biwu and Li Xiannian. The place also cultivated 223 generals, including Han Xianchu and Qin Jiwei. Hong’an Qiliping was an important revolutionary base during the Second Revolutionary Civil War (1924-1927).

In 1924, a Communist Party organ was established in Hong’an. In November 1927, the Chinese Communist Party Huang’an Macheng Special Committee led the famous Huangma Uprising, in accordance with the August 7 Meeting Spirit of the Party Central Committee. The uprising troops were mobilized at Qiliping. After a fierce battle, they occupied the Huang’an county seat, established the Huang’an county peasant revolutionary regime, and set up the East Hubei forces of Chinese Worker and Peasant Revolutionary Army.

In 1929, the Hubei-Henan revolutionary base was formed. Qiliping served as the center of the base. In 1930, Qiliping was renamed Lenin City. During the autumn of that year, the first congress of worker, peasant and soldier representatives of the Hubei-Henan revolutionary base was held in Qiliping. They elected members for the Soviet government. In November 1931, the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army was established in Qiliping. Xu Xiangqian was the chief command and Chen Changhao was the political commissar.

The Hong’an Qiliping revolutionary site is well preserved. The area has over 40 former revolutionary sites still intact. These include the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Special Zone Soviet office, revolutionary courts, labor union offices, banks, Huangma Uprising meeting rooms, Chinese Communist Party Huang’an county station, Red Army economic commune and Lenin primary school. A monument was founded at the rear hill of Qiliping town bearing the inscription of Dong Biwu: "Long Live Revolutionary Martyrs".