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Former Residence of Hu Yaobang 胡耀邦故居Hú Yàobāng Gùjū
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Changsha, Hunan
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Changsha
- Region
- Hunan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Former Residence of Hu Yaobang
Hu Yaobang (1915–1989), who headed the Communist Party as chairman and then general secretary from 1981 to 1987, was born in this Qing brick-and-timber farmhouse of 19 rooms beside the Minxi River in Cangfang village, Zhonghe town, and left it at the age of 15. Restored and opened in 1995, the house is the centre of a 4A scenic area that also has a memorial exhibition hall of 2006 on his life, an ancestral hall, the family graves and a square.
How to get to Former Residence of Hu Yaobang
In Zhonghe town, south-eastern Liuyang, about 6 km from Wenjiashi, which is some 45 km south-east of Liuyang city by road.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Site of Joining Forces in Wenjiashi of Autumn Harvest Uprising 秋收起义文家市会师旧址 (under 10 km).
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