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The Memorial Tower to the August 1 Nanchang Uprising The tower is located at the southern part of the People’s Square, which is in the center of the city proper. Construction of the tower began in 1977, the year of the 50th anniversary of the uprising, was completed on January 8, 1979. The tower is shaped like an obelisk, and is 45.5 meters high. The late Marshal Ye Jianying (1897-1986) inscribed the name of “the Memorial Tower to the August 1st Nanchang Uprising,” which is a brief introduction about the uprising on the granite tablet. On the other three sides are three large granite relief sculptures entitled “announcing to start the uprising,” “attacking the enemy positions” and “rejoicing in the victory.” There are sidewalls to the south and north of the main body of the tower. On these two walls there is a relief sculpture of a flag and an emblem of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army with green pines and evergreens surrounding the flag and emblem. The top of the tower consists of an upright granite sculpture of a rifle made in Hanyang (now part of Wuhan, Hubei province) and an August-the-First-Flag made of red granite.      Photo Album of Jiangxi