Overseas visitors in awe of CPC memorial

OVERSEAS visitors, including expatriates and diplomats, are flocking to the memorial where the Communist Party of China was established in Shanghai a century ago.

Thirteen early members of the CPC gathered in an 18-square-meter house in

Shanghai for the First National Congress of the Party in 1921, triggering overwhelming changes in China and for Chinese people.

The memorial to the historic congress opened in June this year to mark the centennial of the Party’s founding.

The Memorial of the First National Congress of the CPC along Taiping Lake in Xintiandi has since received more than 400 foreign guests in about 20 groups.

“As a key venue about the CPC history, the memorial has taken the reception of foreign guests as one of its main tasks this year,” memorial staff said.

The overseas visitors include ambassadors, reporters as well as company officials, artists and entrepreneurs living in Shanghai.

The memorial in Huangpu District includes the former site of the congress on Xingye Road and a new exhibition hall opposite Huangpi Road S.

It features Shanghai’s unique architectural structure in accordance with the buildings in the surrounding Xintiandi area. The main exhibition space is about 3,700 square meters, quadruple the previous exhibition space.

The exhibition features 1,168 exhibits about the birth of the Party and the revolutionary practices in Shanghai, including 612 cultural relics along with photos, videos, oil paintings, sculptures and multimedia works.

Seventy-two versions of “The Communist Manifesto” are also on show.