Site of the August 7th Conference

The venue of the "August 7th" conference is a three storey western style building, built in 1920. It was originally an apartment built by the British, named Jardine house. The first floor is a shop run by foreign businessmen, and the second and third floors are houses. After the northern expedition of the national revolutionary army occupied Wuhan, the second floor was the residence of the Soviet Union's agricultural adviser to China, lozhomov. The August 7th meeting was held in lozhomov's house. The site of the conference is well preserved, the conference venue has been restored, and the historical materials and cultural relics of the August 7th conference are displayed on the first floor. In 1927, Chiang Kai Shek and Wang Jingwei defected to the revolution one after another, and the first domestic revolutionary war failed. The Chinese revolution was at a very urgent juncture. On August 7, the CPC Central Committee held an emergency meeting, that is, the August 7 meeting. Qu Qiubai, Li Weihan, Mao Zedong, Su Zhaozheng, Luo Yinong, Zhang Tailei, Deng Zhongxia, Lu Dingyi and Deng Xiaoping attended the meeting. The meeting criticized and corrected Chen Duxiu's right capitulationist line, abolished his post as general secretary, elected the provisional Political Bureau of the Central Committee headed by Qu Qiubai, determined the general policy of agrarian revolution and armed resistance to the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang, and decided to launch the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other provinces. Mao Zedong was elected as an alternate member of the provisional Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. He spoke at the meeting and put forward the famous idea of "political power comes from the barrel of a gun". (State Administration of cultural relics)

Venue of August 7 Conference

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The former site of the August 7th conference generally refers to the site of the August 7th conference

The venue of the August 7th meeting is located at 139 Poyang street, Hankou, Wuhan City, Hubei Province. On August 7, 1978, the site of the August 7 conference was restored and a memorial hall was established, which was officially opened to the public with a building area of 3036 square meters.

The site of the August 7th conference is a unit in a row of western style apartments built by the British in 1920.

The three storey building consists of basic exhibition hall, auxiliary exhibition room, temporary exhibition hall, restored exhibition hall and office space.

As an important carrier of recording the historical event of "August 7th meeting", the site of the August 7th meeting witnessed the first great turning point in the history of the Communist Party of China and played an important role in the education of party history, patriotism and revolutionary tradition.

On February 23, 1982, the site of the August 7th meeting was announced by the State Council of the people's Republic of China as the second batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Historical evolution

On August 7, 1927, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held an emergency meeting in Hankou, known as the "August 7 meeting". The meeting was attended by 10 members of the Central Committee, 3 alternate members of the Central Committee, 8 representatives of the Central Supervision Commission, the Central Military Commission, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, Hunan and Hubei, and representatives of the Communist International and the head of the Central Secretariat. Qu Qiubai presided over the meeting.

Since the 1950s, the cultural relics workers in Hubei Province and Wuhan City have collected a large number of cultural relics after long-term investigation, research and textual research on the site of the August 7th conference.

In 1972, when the site of the August 7th meeting was initially determined, the Wuhan Municipal Department of cultural relics submitted a report to the Hubei provincial Party committee and Wuhan municipal Party Committee on the restoration of the site and the preparation for the construction of the memorial hall, which was approved.

In 1976, according to Comrade Lu Dingyi's recollection, the restoration work began, and the relocation, interior decoration, furniture production, venue layout and other work were all completed in just one month. In October of the same year, the exhibition began.

In October 1977, the CPC Wuhan Municipal Committee decided to build a memorial hall on the basis of the site restoration.

On August 7, 1978, the site of the August 7 conference was restored and a memorial hall was established, which was officially opened to the public.

In 1980, Comrade Deng Xiaoping inscribed the name of the "site of the August 7th Conference".

In 1997, the State Administration of cultural relics and the Wuhan municipal government allocated 2.5 million yuan for the expansion and maintenance of the memorial hall at the site of the August 7th conference. Wuhan cultural relics office transferred the property rights of houses 135 and 137 adjacent to the site of the August 7th Meeting on Poyang street to the memorial hall of the site of the August 7th meeting.

From March to October 1999, the memorial hall of the August 7th conference was expanded and maintained. The floor area of the memorial hall increased from 163.71 square meters to 438.62 square meters, and the building area increased from 681.22 square meters to 1397.12 square meters.

On June 30, 2011, the exhibition and renovation project of the memorial hall of the August 7 conference was completed, with an area of 3036 square meters.

Architectural pattern

The site of the August 7th conference is a unit in a row of western style apartments (also known as "Jardine house") built by the British in 1920.

The memorial hall covers an area of 982.2 square meters, with a total construction area of 3036 square meters.

The three storey building consists of basic exhibition hall, auxiliary exhibition room, temporary exhibition hall, restored exhibition hall and office space.

On the first floor of the memorial hall of the August 7th conference site, there is the exhibition of the history of the August 7th conference, on the second floor is the restored exhibition of the venue and the large-scale photo exhibition of Mao Zedong in Hubei. The auxiliary display on the first floor is divided into three parts: "sudden change", "major turning point" and "start a prairie fire". The original display on the second floor restores the venue of the "August 7th" conference. Through simple and simple furnishings, it shows the actual situation of the meeting that year. The third floor is for staff office.

There is also a temporary exhibition hall in the memorial hall of the August 7th conference site, which often holds exhibitions reflecting the party history and the achievements of the motherland's construction.

Cultural relics

There are more than 300 cultural relics, photos and historical materials in the museum. Among them, the records of the August 7th meeting and its resolution, the articles used by Qu Qiubai and other representatives of the meeting, Li Weihan's personal letter, and Deng Xiaoping's recording of recalling the August 7th meeting are all characteristic collections of the memorial hall.

Organization setup

On June 6, 1978, according to Wu Bian (1978) No. 21, the memorial hall of the meeting site of the August 7 conference was set up, with seven members.

In March 1979, the memorial hall at the site of the August 7th meeting was changed into a unit directly under the Municipal Administration of cultural relics, and the organization and administration of the party and League were entrusted by the memorial hall of "Wuhan Office of the Eighth Route Army".

In May 1991, according to the No. 6 document of Wu Wen Wei (1991), the Party branch was set up in the memorial hall of the August 7th conference.

On December 29th, 1997, according to the document (1997) No. 91, the memorial hall of the August 7th conference was designated as a public institution at the deputy department level, with 12 members.

In May 1998, according to the No. 17 (1998) document issued by the Wu cultural relics office, the memorial hall at the site of the August 7th conference was set up with an office and a business department.

History and culture

August 7th Meeting

The August 7th meeting passed the letter of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to all Party members, the resolution on the recent peasant movement, the resolution on the recent workers' movement and the resolution on the party's organization. At the critical juncture of the Chinese revolution, the meeting summed up the experience and lessons of the failure of the great revolution, and discussed the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the agrarian revolution, the armed struggle and other issues.

The August 7th meeting resolutely corrected the right capitulationism mistakes represented by Chen Duxiu, determined the general policy of carrying out agrarian revolution and armed resistance against Kuomintang reactionaries, and made it the main task of the party at that time to launch peasants' Autumn Harvest Uprising. At the meeting, Comrade Mao Zedong clearly put forward the conclusion that "we must know that political power is obtained from the barrel of a gun".

Activity construction

From 1998 to 2004, the memorial hall at the site of the August 7th conference successively held major anniversaries such as the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the 110th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Mao Zedong, and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, and temporary exhibitions such as Mao Zedong in Hubei and Deng Xiaoping, the great man of the century.

On July 16, 2019, the Bureau of veteran cadres of Hubei provincial Party committee organized party members to carry out the theme education of "never forget the original intention and remember the mission" at the memorial hall of the August 7 conference, reviewing the revolutionary history and feeling the original intention and mission.

Publishing books

On August 4, 1998, the monumental works in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the August 7 conference was published.

In June 2013, the collection of theses commemorating the 85th anniversary of the August 7th conference was published by the CPC History press.

In April 2017, the historical witness of the spread of spark - collection of the August 7th conference was officially published.

Cultural relic value

As an important carrier of recording the historical event of "August 7th meeting", the site of the August 7th meeting witnessed the first great turning point in the history of the Communist Party of China and played an important role in the education of party history, patriotism and revolutionary tradition.

The August 7th conference hall has become an important red tourism resource in Wuhan, an important position for patriotism education of the broad masses of the people, and an important classroom for education of minors.

Cultural relics protection

On February 23, 1982, the site of the August 7th meeting was announced by the State Council of the people's Republic of China as the second batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

In March and September 1995, the memorial hall at the site of the August 7th conference was named "patriotism education base" by the Hubei provincial Party committee and the provincial people's Government of the CPC and the Wuhan municipal Party committee and the Municipal People's Government of the CPC.

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