Atlas of China
Liaoyuan 辽源Liáoyuán
A small coal city at the head of the East Liao, where Allied generals were held
About Liaoyuan
Liaoyuan, the smallest of Jilin's prefecture-level cities, is named after the source of the East Liao River and grew as a coal-mining town, second only to Fushun as a coal producer under Manchukuo. Two sites recall the Japanese occupation: the Liaoyuan Miners' Mass Grave, where halls built over the burial pits hold miners' remains, and the camp where senior Allied prisoners, among them the American general Jonathan Wainwright and the British general Arthur Percival, were held in 1944–45.
Listed sites in Liaoyuan
4 sites in Liaoyuan are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Liaoyuan Miners' Mass Grave 辽源矿工墓 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A burial ground and site museum for coal miners who died at the Xi'an (now Liaoyuan) mines during Japan's occupation of north-east China in 1931–45. - Tianyu Tourist Resort 田雨旅游度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
A countryside leisure resort in Dongliao County, built in recent years as a German-themed village, with a castle-style building, a landscaped stream, flower beds, lawns, windmill-style villas and a fruit-picking garden. - Yuedong Liaoyuan Happy Carnival 悦动辽源欢乐荟 4A scenic area · on the map
A family amusement complex in Liaoyuan's Xi'an district, described by the provincial tourism bureau as an immersive children's leisure park of about 30,000 sq m with a fairy-tale theme that mixes technology and outdoor play. - Liaoyuan WWII Allied POW Camp Site 辽源二战盟军战俘营旧址 National heritage site · on the map
A former Japanese Army prisoner-of-war camp, the second branch of the Mukden camp, where 34 Allied prisoners were held between December 1944 and August 1945: five lieutenant-generals, four major-generals, seven colonial governors and 18 orderlies, American, British and Dutch among them.
On the map
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