Working People's Cultural Palace (English: Working People's Cultural Palace)

Japanese: 労働人民文化宮 - ろうどうじんみんぶんかきゅう（英語表記）láo dòng rén mín wén huà gōng

A center for cultural, artistic, and sports activities for workers in China's major cities. In January 1950, immediately after liberation, the People's Government donated the Imperial Temple on the east side of Tiananmen Square to the Beijing Federation of Trade Unions for use as a welfare and social facility for workers, and on May Day of the same year, it was opened to the public with a plaque bearing Mao Zedong's name "Beijing Municipal Workers' Cultural Palace" hanging on the main gate. Since then, similar facilities have been established in cities such as Shanghai, Shenyang, Harbin, and Hangzhou. In the northeastern region, based on the "Northeast District Cultural Network Organization and Work Guidelines Implementation Regulations" enacted in March 1950, cultural palaces were positioned at the top of a pyramidal cultural network, with cultural palaces in large industrial cities and cultural halls in counties and cities, but this is not necessarily uniform throughout the country.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国の大都市に設置されている労働者のための文化，芸術，体育活動のセンター。解放直後の1950年1月，人民政府が労働者の福利･厚生施設用に，天安門東側の太廟を北京市総工会に供与し，同年のメーデーに毛沢東の〈北京市労働人民文化宮〉という額を正門にかかげ，公開したのが最初である。以後，上海，瀋陽，ハルビン(哈爾浜)，杭州などの都市にも同様の施設ができた。東北地区では50年3月制定の〈東北区文化網組織工作要綱施行条例〉にもとづき，工業大都市には文化宮，県･市には文化館といったピラミッド型の文化網の頂点に位置づけられたが，必ずしも全国一様ではない。

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