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26-399: Bengshan District is divided to 7 subdistricts and 2 townships. 32°56′38.67″N 117°21′45.62″E  /  32.9440750°N 117.3626722°E  / 32.9440750; 117.3626722 This Bengbu location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bengbu Bengbu ( Chinese : 蚌埠 ; pinyin : Bèngbù ; Wade–Giles : Peng-pu ) is

52-738: A city in northern Anhui Province , China. Its population was 3,296,408 registered residents at the 2020 census. 1,968,027 lived in the built-up area made of four Bengbu urban districts and Fengyang County in Chuzhou Prefecture, largely being conurbated. Its name means " Clam Wharf" in Chinese, echoing its former reputation as a freshwater pearl fishery. The prefecture-level city of Bengbu administers seven county-level divisions , including four districts and three counties . These are further divided into 74 township-level divisions , including 36 towns , 19 townships and 19 subdistricts . Bengbu

78-722: A climatic transition zone, as it is on the Qin Ling−Huai River boundary between the climatic regimes of northern and southern China. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from 2.0 °C (35.6 °F) in January to 28.1 °C (82.6 °F) in July, and the annual mean is 15.76 °C (60.4 °F). A majority of the annual precipitation occurs from June to August. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 44% in March to 56% in August,

104-805: A major distribution centre for the Huai basin. In 1948, during the Chinese Civil War , the Communist People's Liberation Army won a decisive victory over Chiang Kai-shek 's Nationalist (KMT) forces near Bengbu, in the Huaihai Campaign . Bengbu is now a famous food city in Anhui province. Food-related industries account for 44% of the city's industrial production. The city's other industries include engineering works, textiles, glass making, chemicals, and electronics. The light textile holds an important position in

130-774: A series of wars with its neighbors, such as the Chu State and the Wu State. Another Dongyi State was the small Zhongli State, which was a part of the Huaiyi Confederation led by the State of Xu. Tombs belonging to the royalty of the Zhongli State were discovered in excavations between 2005 and 2008 near Fengyang . Eventually, the Huaiyi peoples were assimilated. Bengbu has always been a hub of water and land communications in Anhui province, and

156-466: Is located in the city. The 15,000-capacity stadium is used mostly for football matches. Bengbu cuisine, along with northern Anhui cuisine, is similar to cuisine from nearby Henan and Shandong provinces, as well as Xuzhou cuisine in northern Jiangsu province. The city is on the Jinghu Railway , with hourly direct trains to Beijing, Shanghai and other large cities. Bengbu South Railway Station

182-741: Is located in the southeast of the North China Plain , on the Huai River . The built up urbanized area is divided into two parts: greater Bengbu on the south bank of the river and little Bengbu on the north bank. Dragon Lake is on the East side of the urbanized area. On the other side of the lake is the university district, containing four institutions of higher learning. The area has a four-season humid subtropical climate with strong monsoon influences ( Köppen climate classification Cwa ), cool, sometimes cold, winters, and hot and humid summers. The area lies in

208-826: Is served by the high-speed Beijing-Shanghai Railway. Bengbu Airport , which was relocated from the city's central urban area around the turn of the 21st century, is now operated only as a military airport. A new commercial airport is under construction in the district north of the Huai river. Construction on the Bengbu Metro started in 2019 and is due to be completed in 2023. See Category:People from Bengbu Huaihai Campaign [REDACTED] Republic of China [REDACTED] Chinese Communist Party The Huaihai campaign ( Chinese : 淮 海 戰 役 ; pinyin : Huáihǎi Zhànyì ), or Battle of Hsupeng ( traditional Chinese : 徐 蚌 會 戰 ; simplified Chinese : 徐 蚌 会 战 ; pinyin : Xúbèng Huìzhàn ),

234-670: The August First Film Studio released the epic war trilogy Decisive Engagement in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the CCP, the second film of which was centered on the Huaihai Campaign, starring Gu Yue as Mao Zedong, Zhao Hengduo as Chiang Kai-shek, Fu Xuecheng as Liu Bocheng, Liu Xitian as Chen Yi, Xie Weicai as Su Yu, Lu Qi as Deng Xiaoping, Xu Zhengyun as Du Yuming, Xu Huanshan as Huang Baitao and Sheng Zhong as Qiu Qingquan. The 2007 film Assembly

260-793: The CCP on 24 September 1948, the PLA began planning for a larger campaign to engage the remaining Nationalist forces in the Shandong province and their main force in Xuzhou . In face of the rapidly deteriorating military situation in the Northeast , the Nationalist government decided to deploy on both sides of the Tianjin–Pukou Railway to prevent the PLA from advancing south toward the Yangtze River . Su Yu ,

286-647: The Central Plains Field Army and capture the key railway checkpoints to break the siege on the Seventh Army. However, Chiang Kai-shek and Liu Zhi overruled his plan as being too risky and ordered the Xuzhou Garrison to rescue Seventh Army directly. The CCP anticipated this move from good intelligence and correct reasoning, and deployed more than half of the Eastern China Field Army to blocking

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312-752: The Central Plains Field Army) to assault the Nationalist garrison in Henan and Anhui to breakthrough to Shandong. As the Nationalist Sixth and Seventh Army began retreating to Xuzhou by crossing the Grand Canal, they were behind their original schedule. Lieutenant General Huang Baitao of the Seventh Army had to wait for three days before troops from the Ninth Pacification Zone arrived, and consequently several bridgeheads were unsecured prior to

338-622: The Communist encirclement with 8,000 survivors, but was badly wounded in the breakout. Chiang Kai-shek tried to save the Twelfth Army. On November 30, 1948, he ordered the three armies still under the Suppression General Headquarters of Xuzhou Garrison to turn southeast and relieve the Twelfth Army before it was too late. However, the PLA forces caught up with them and they were encircled only 9 miles from Xuzhou. On December 15,

364-567: The Nationalist Twelfth Army led by Huang Wei coming from Henan as reinforcements. General Liu Ruming 's Eighth Army and Lieutenant General Li Yannian 's Sixth Army tried to break the Communist siege but to no avail. The Twelfth Army also ceased to exist after nearly a month of bloody conflicts, with many newly taken Nationalist prisoners of war joining the Communist forces instead. Only Huang's deputy commander, Lieutenant General Hu Lien , riding in an armored tank, managed to penetrate

390-621: The PLA approached the Yangtze, the momentum shifted completely toward the CCP side. Without effective measures against PLA advance across the Yangtze, the Nationalist government in Nanjing began losing their support from the United States, as American military aid gradually came to a stop. As a result, Chiang Kai-shek , the President of the Nationalist government, stepped down on January 21, 1949. In 1991,

416-519: The PLA forces before being destroyed. Huang Baitao committed suicide in his headquarters on November 22, 1948. With the Seventh Army no longer in existence, the east flank of Xuzhou were completely exposed to Communist attack. The Communist sympathizer in the Nationalist government managed to persuade Chiang to move the Nationalist headquarters to the south. In the meanwhile, the Communist Central Plains Field Army intercepted

442-481: The ROC forces to surrender; about 10,000 did so. On January 6, 1949, communist forces launched a general offensive on the 13th army and remnants of the 13th army withdrew to 2nd army's defense area. Four days later, communist forces captured General Du Yuming; General Qiu Qinquan shot himself while trying to break out with his troops; only General Li Mi was able to escape back to Nanjing. The 6th and 8th armies of ROC retreated to

468-656: The acting commander of the Eastern China Field Army proposed an operational plan to the CCP war council. The plan was to encircle the Nationalist Sixth and Seventh Army, which were still stationed in the Shandong province. The council quickly approved this plan and ordered the Central Plains Field Army under Liu Bocheng , Chen Yi (Commander of the Eastern China Field Army and liaison to the Central Plains Field Army) and Deng Xiaoping (Political Commissar of

494-590: The city receives 2,168 hours of bright sunshine annually. In ancient times, the Dongyi peoples inhabited this area and were collectively known as the Huaiyi after the Huai River. During the late Western Zhou Period and the early Spring and Autumn period , the Dongyi became increasingly sinicized. During the late Spring and Autumn period, the once-powerful Dongyi state of Xu was pressured from all directions and destroyed through

520-460: The crossing. On 8 November, 23,000 Nationalist troops defected to the CCP side, exposing the retreat route of the Seventh Army back to Xuzhou. 70,000 men of the PLA marched on and surrounded the main forces of the Seventh Army east of Xuzhou, and intercepted the remaining Nationalist forces as they were crossing the river. Du Yuming , the commander of the Nationalist garrison in Xuzhou, decided to attack

546-586: The current hopeless situation: first, recall the ROC troops in Xi'an and Wuhan to battle the communists; second, to wait for reinforcements; and the third was to break out on their own. He was disappointed when Chiang chose the riskiest one: order them to break out. There was more than a month of heavy snowfalls, which made the ROC air forces unable to provide air support to the besieged ground units. As food and ammunition diminished, many ROC soldiers killed their horses to feed themselves and communist forces used food to entice

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572-415: The day which the 12th army was wiped out, the 16th army under General Sun Yuanliang broke out from the CCP encirclement on its own. Although Sun himself made it safely back to Nanjing, most of his officers and soldiers were killed or captured in the process. Du Yuming decided to hold out as Chiang had ordered. As one of the ablest strategists in the ROC army, Du Yuming came up with three different options for

598-499: The industrial structure. Bengbu is teeming with oil, vegetables, meat and aquatic products. Bengbu is a large producer of peanuts. The pomegranates from Huaiyuan (a county of Bengbu), have a high reputation in China. In Wuhe (a county of Bengbu), the crabs are also famous. Pollution in the village of Qiugang, a suburb of Bengbu, was the subject of the 2010 film The Warriors of Qiugang , an 83rd Academy Awards nominee. The Bengbu Stadium

624-536: The relief effort. More importantly, Lieutenant General Qiu Qingquan , commander of the Second Army, had a personal feud with Huang Baitao, had been given faulty intelligence in previous battles, and did not commit his elite American-trained 5th Corps into battle. The Thirteenth Army commanded by Lieutenant General Li Mi did try but was blocked by the CCP. The Seventh Army managed to hold out for 16 days without supplies and reinforcement and inflicted 49,000 casualties on

650-426: The south of Huai river, and the campaign was over. Throughout the campaign, large amounts of ROC troops defected to the CCP. The heavy losses suffered by Whampoa-trained troops under the direct command of Chiang significantly weakened the position of Chiang in the Nationalist government. With pressure from former political rivals such as Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi , Chiang announced his temporary retirement. As

676-625: Was one of the military conflicts in the late stage of the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The campaign started when the People's Liberation Army (PLA) launched a major offensive against the Kuomintang headquarters in Xuzhou on 6 November 1948, and ended on 10 January 1949 when the PLA reached the north of the Yangtze . After the fall of Jinan to

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