Maodong villagers have grown accustomed to tour buses arriving over the years.
Tourists are drawn to the Xifeng Concentration Camp memorial hall, a revolutionary history museum in the village that sits in Guiyang city of Guizhou province. The concentration camp was the largest, highest-level prison set up by the Kuomintang in 1938 and was abolished in 1946. More than 1,200 members of the Communist Party of China and patriots were detained there, and 600 of them were tortured and killed in the prison.
The prison is now a popular patriotic education site in Guizhou.
Chen Mengju, an official of Maodong village, says annual tourist visits to the site have exceeded 700,000.
The site’s popularity has also boosted…