清远地区人民具有光荣的革命传统。从1923年起,就有一批批的优秀儿女加入中国共产党,开始进行革命活动,深入农村发动群众成立农会,建立了由党直接领导的革命武装农民自卫军,对反动民团、地方恶霸、奸商进行坚决斗争。土地革命时期,清远地区党组织纷纷发动农民开展土地革命,有的地方还成立了苏维埃政权。抗日战争爆发 People in Qingyuan have a glorious revolutionary tradition. Since 1923, a batch of excellent sons and daughters have joined the Communist Party of China and started revolutionary activities. They have mobilized the masses in rural areas to set up peasant associations and established revolutionary armed peasants and self-defense forces under the direct leadership of the party. They have made great efforts in cracking down on reactionary militias, local bullies, profiteers Fight resolutely. During the agrarian revolution, the party organizations in Qingyuan started the agrarian revolution one after another, and in some places also established the Soviet power. Anti-Japanese War broke out