Party sites popular on 83rd anniversary
11/8/2004 16:35
MORE than 8,000 people visited local historic sites linked to the
Communist Party of China yesterday, the 83rd anniversary of the founding of the
CPC.
According to Zhang Jianwei, vice director of the Memorial Site of the
CPC First National Conference in Luwan District, the museum welcomed 5,154
visitors yesterday.
"This number, which is the highest in recent years, shows
the tendency that people pay greater interest and respect to the past glory of
our Party," he said.
Zhou Jianhua, director of the Jing'an District Cultural
and Historical Institute supervising 52 revolutionary sites in the area, said
yesterday that about 750 people paid a visit to the former residence of late
Chairman Mao Zedong and 700 people visited the memorial hall for Liu Changsheng
(1903-1967, underground labor movement leader in Shanghai before 1949).
She
said so far 15,000 people have visited Chairman Mao's former residence this
year, about twice as many as visited during all of last year. And 7,500 people
have viewed the memorial hall of late Liu.
"I'd never imagined that a
revolutionary site could have such big appeal," said a local man who was paying
a visit to Chairman Mao's home yesterday morning. "It's both instructive and
interesting."
Fan Meijing
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