Dajin Mountain War of Resistance Site

Dajin Mountain stands in Baima Town, Lishui District. The Dajin Mountain War of Resistance Site is one of the district's revolutionary heritage points. According to the reply of the district bureau of culture and tourism to Proposal No. 038 of the fourth session of the eleventh district CPPCC, the district records 77 such points, of which 29 lie in Baima Town, 33 in Jingqiao Town and 9 in Shiqiu Subdistrict, classified as old residences, old sites, battle sites, and martyrs' tombs and memorial steles (towers); the bureau has put this site forward for provincial revolutionary-relic status.

Baima Town's 29 points are the fewest of the three areas listed (the other two being Jingqiao Town with 33 and Shiqiu Subdistrict with 9). The reply does not assign this site to any one of the four categories, nor does it explain the criteria by which points were selected in each town, so this entry does not infer the site's category from the reply.

The fourth-batch listing and Dajin Mountain

Ning Zheng Fa [2012] No. 67 of 20 March 2012 published the fourth batch of 117 municipal protected sites, together with 3 extension projects. "Lishui Dajin Mountain Anti-Japanese Base Site" appears as item 69 in the "modern and contemporary sites and representative buildings" section, with the period given as the Republic of China era and the address recorded as "Dajin Mountain, Dongping Town, Lishui County". It is the only Lishui entry in that section of the fourth batch.

That entry differs from this one in two respects, and this entry does not merge them or rewrite its own name and town on their authority:

• Name: the notice gives "Lishui Dajin Mountain Anti-Japanese Base Site", this entry gives "Dajin Mountain War of Resistance Site". Whether "anti-Japanese base" and "war of resistance site" denote the same thing is not stated by either source.
• Town: the notice's address column reads "Dongping Town, Lishui County", this entry records Baima Town. Lishui's Dongping Town was redesignated as Dongping Subdistrict in May 2018 (Su Zheng Fu [2018] No. 30) and is still a subdistrict, not merged into Baima Town; the two towns therefore differ, and this is not a case of one name succeeding the other.

This entry records protection_level as municipally protected and protection_batch as the fourth batch on the authority of that notice; whether the two records denote the same site remains to be verified, and any citation should name the town and the name as given.

Protection status

The bureau's reply says only that the site has been "put forward" for provincial revolutionary-relic status and does not give the outcome. Being put forward is not being published, and this entry does not record a provincial level on the strength of that reply. The reply further states that five sites including the Lixiang revolutionary site group, the former New Fourth Army clothing factory and the Zhongshan Martyrs Cemetery were included in the second batch of the Jiangsu provincial list of immovable revolutionary relics under consideration, and that the Mingjue Wufu Mountain martyrs' tomb, the Qunli martyrs' tomb, the Lishui massacre memorial stele, the Tongshan battle site and others were included among the newly discovered general immovable cultural relic points of the fourth national survey—neither list names the Dajin Mountain War of Resistance Site, and this entry infers no level from that.

The site also appears on neither the district's third batch list nor the municipal list. The reason the municipal list does not record it is that the near-modern part of that list's PDF was truncated during text extraction, so the Lishui near-modern entries there may be incomplete, and "not in the list" does not mean "not published". The fourth-batch notice supplies that evidence.

The outcome of the provincial application is still undecided; the notice gives only "Republic of China era" and the address, with no dates, form or protected boundary, so this entry does not narrate the wartime activity there on its authority.

Not the same as the defence park

A separate facility stands on Dajin Mountain. The district government calls it the Dajin Mountain scenic area, or Dajin Mountain Defence Park; it lies east of the Lishui urban area, covers 66 hectares, was founded in 1990, and was enlarged and rebuilt in 2008, when it became a 3A-rated tourist attraction. That park is a defence-education and tourism facility of the 1990s, not the wartime site itself, and the two are not interchangeable.

The 3A rating itself, however, has a separate problem of attribution: the List of Nationally Graded Tourist Attractions in Nanjing (as of August 2026) of the municipal bureau of culture and tourism does not include the Dajin Mountain scenic area, so its rating currently rests on a single source, the district government's own description, and this entry does not confirm the rating on that basis. The reply also states that "Zhongshan Martyrs Cemetery—Dajin Mountain Defence Park" was selected as one of the first batch of Nanjing's Party history study and education quality routes; the destination of that route is the defence park, not the site of this entry.

Open questions

• Whether this entry and the fourth-batch "Lishui Dajin Mountain Anti-Japanese Base Site" are the same place cannot be settled on the present materials, since both the name and the town differ; citations should name the town and the name as given.
• The outcome of the provincial revolutionary-relic application is unobtained. Nor does the site appear in the second batch of the Jiangsu provincial list of immovable revolutionary relics under consideration, or among the newly discovered general immovable relic points of the fourth national survey (both as reported in the bureau's 2025 reply).
• The site's precise location and extent, and the kind of remains that survive (trenches, emplacements, strongpoints), are not recorded; the fourth-batch notice gives only the Republic of China era and the address.
• The date and unit designations of the fighting there are unobtained; neither the reply nor the notice records them.
• The 3A rating of the Dajin Mountain Defence Park appears only in the district government's own description and not in the municipal list of nationally graded tourist attractions (as of August 2026).
• The reply does not explain the selection criteria for the 77 revolutionary heritage points or their category assignments, so this entry does not infer which category the site belongs to.