Song Jiaoren (1882-1913) was born and educated in Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province. Mr. Song was 17 years old. He graduated and began studying at Zhangjiang College in Taoyuan.

In August 1902, he was hired to teach at the well-known private middle school Wuchang Teachers School. friend. Due to his revolutionary activities, Song was forced to flee China to Japan in 1904, where he studied Western political thought and established links between Chinese students studying abroad and Japanese pan-Asianists.
 

In 1905, Song and Sun Yat-sen co-founded the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and establish a republic.

After the Revolution of 1911, Song went to Hong Kong to organize a second Guangzhou uprising. On January 1, 1912, the Republic of China was established in Nanjing. Song was appointed to reform China's legal system. He drafted an interim constitution, the Organic Law of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China.
 

In 1912, Song Jiaoren was invited by Sun Yat-sen to organize the Kuomintang to participate in China's first democratic election.
 

On March 20, 1911, Song Jiaoren was traveling to Beijing's Congress with a group of colleagues. He was shot twice by a lone gunman Ying Kuicheng at Shanghai Railway Station, and died at the hospital after two days.

Song Jiaoren was buried in Shanghai. In June 1924, The Song Park (now known as Zhabei Park) was built by the government of Republic of China on more than 100 acres of land in Zhabei District, Shanghai.

The former residence of Song Jiaoren is located in Jiaoren Village, Zhangjiang Town, Taoyuan County, Changde City, Hunan Province. The former house was destroyed during a decade of turmoil and was later rebuilt. It has more than 20 civil houses with a construction area of 576 square meters. The former residence was repaired in June 2011. It is a key cultural relics protection unit in Changde.

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