On Kinmen’s northwest tip, in Jinning District, the Guningtou Battlefield was the scene of a 56-hour bloodbath that began when Communist troops landed on the shore in the early hours of October 24, 1949.[…]

Erected in 1812, the Memorial Arch to Ciou Liang-gong’s (Qiu Liang-gong) Mother, on Jyuguang (Juguang) Road in Jinhu District, to the east of Jinning, celebrates the virtuous mother of Ciou Liang-song (Qiu Liang-gong), a governor-general of Zhejiang province in mainland China who was a resident of Kinmen.