Where is the former site of the Central *** You County Local Executive Committee and Tan Zhenlin’s Life and Achievements Exhibition Hall?

The former site of the Local Executive Committee of You County, Zhongnan Province and the Exhibition Hall of Tan Zhenlin’s Life and Achievements are Hunan Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units, a classic red tourism scenic spot, and a patriotism education base.

The former site of the You County Local Executive Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Tan Zhenlin Life and Achievements Exhibition Hall are located in Pearl Harbor, Chengguan Town, You County, Zhuzhou City.

The old site faces northeast and southwest and consists of three parts. In the middle is Wenchang Temple, founded in 1803; on the left is Cangsheng Temple, founded in 1831; on the right is Xingxian Hall, founded in 1833. It was the seat of Youjiang Office in the Qing Dynasty and the county party headquarters and meeting place of the Kuomintang during the Republic of China.

In 1925, the Hunan District Committee of the Communist Party of China sent Pan Pengju to You County to develop party members. In the winter of that year, he and primary school teachers Yu Lai and Tan Zhidao became the first batch of Communist Party members of the Communist Party of China in You County. In 1926, the first party branch in You County was established.

On June 14 of the same year, with the help of the Communist Party Organization of the Ye Ting Independent League, the You County Local Executive Committee was established. It was located in Wenchang Temple and had seven grassroots party branches under its jurisdiction to develop party members. There are more than 60 people, with Yu Lai serving as general secretary. After the establishment of the local executive committee of You County, Zhongxin, it made important contributions to the development and expansion of the party's local organizations, the establishment of revolutionary armed forces, the launch of peasant movements, and the in-depth development of the revolutionary movement in You County. Write a glorious page in the history of the revolutionary struggle in You County. After the failure of the great revolution, Luo Ding of the Eastern Hunan Security Command led his troops back to You County, frantically killing Communist Party members and revolutionary masses. On June 22, 1927, three leaders of the local executive committee of You County of the Communist Party of China, Yu Lai, Tan Zhidao, and Liu Tanhao, died. The party organization in You County was severely damaged. Party members of the Communist Party of China Cai Huiwen, Tan Zhenlin, Cai Nanjie and others followed Mao Zedong to Jinggangshan, while other party members turned to underground activities.

The site was returned to public ownership during the land reform period; in the 1960s and 1970s, it was an urban salt warehouse; in the 1980s, it was returned to the county real estate bureau and settled by urban residents; in the early 1990s, a county museum was established and placed under Management of its use. On April 24, 2002, in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Tan Zhenlin's birth, the country, province, city, and county allocated special funds to take back the property rights of the house, relocated several residents inside, carried out comprehensive overhauls, and built the "Exhibition Room of Tan Zhenlin's Life and Achievements".

The former site of the Local Executive Committee of You County, Zhongnan Province and the Exhibition Hall of Tan Zhenlin’s life and achievements were announced as provincial cultural relics protection units by the Hunan Provincial People’s Government in January 1996; in May 1996, they were designated by the Propaganda Department of the Zhuzhou Municipal Party Committee Announced as Zhuzhou City Patriotism Education Base.