At the bend of a pedestrian street in the former French concession of Shanghai, onlookers crowd to have their picture taken in front of a building's commemorative plaque, unfurling the Chinese flag and banners in honor of the Party, under the watchful eye of several policemen… It is here that a certain Mao Tse-tung would have met with twelve other comrades on July 23, 1921, to secretly hold the first national congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Transformed into a museum, the place welcomes 10,000 visitors daily since its renovation on the occasion of the centenary of the Party.
The visit allows you to discover documents and photos of the time, life-size replicas of the participants, and the first editions translated into Chinese of the
Manifesto of the Communist Party,
of Marx and Engels.
“The Party has come a long way since its inception, and has accomplished so much
,” said a visitor still moved by what he just saw.
"For this, the Chinese people are extremely
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