Chen Yun Memorial Hall and Liantang Ancient Town 陈云故里·练塘古镇Chén Yún Gùlǐ · Liàntáng Gǔzhèn

About Chen Yun Memorial Hall and Liantang Ancient Town

A memorial complex opened in 2000 in Liantang, the home town of the senior Chinese Communist Party leader Chen Yun (1905–1995), and renamed Chen Yun Memorial Hall in 2013. It brings together a bronze statue square, exhibition halls on his life, a hall of his personal relics, his restored former residence and a corridor of stelae carved with his handwriting, and the scenic area also takes in the canal-side streets of Liantang's old town.

How to get to Chen Yun Memorial Hall and Liantang Ancient Town

In Liantang town, southern Qingpu District, about 2 km from Liantang station on the Shanghai–Suzhou–Huzhou high-speed railway from Shanghai Hongqiao, or about 10 km south of Zhujiajiao station on Metro Line 17 by bus or taxi. Closed on Mondays except public holidays.

Nearby

• Zhouzhuang 周庄古镇 20 km
  Jiangnan's most famous water town, famed for its Twin Bridges and merchant halls
• Former French Concession 原法租界 40 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 50 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 50 km
  A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple
• The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 50 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other

Also within 20 km: Zhangma Village 张马村 (under 10 km), Oriental Land 东方绿舟 (10 km), Zhujiajiao Ancient Town 朱家角古镇 (10 km), Shanghai Smurfs Park 上海蓝精灵乐园 (10 km), Jinze Ancient Town 金泽古镇 (10 km), Fengjing Ancient Town 枫泾古镇 (10 km).

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Learn more

• Wikipedia (Chinese)