Former site of the Kuomintang Shanghai Executive Department during the First United Front, No. 180 Nanchang Road

Former site of the Kuomintang Shanghai Executive Department during the First United Front, No. 180 Nanchang Road

Former site of the Kuomintang Shanghai Executive Department during the First United Front, No. 180 Nanchang Road

Located at No. 180 Nanchang Road (formerly No. 44 Huanlong Road), it consists of a row of three brick-and-wood buildings facing south along the street. The Kuomintang Shanghai Executive Department was primarily responsible for party affairs in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, and Shanghai. It began operations on March 1 of the 13th year of the Republic of China (1924). The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party sent cadres to participate in its work. Key personnel of the Executive Department included: Mao Zedong as head of the Clerical Section (Shao Yuanchong was originally appointed but did not take the post); Hu Hanmin as head of the Organization Department, Mao Zedong as secretary, and Luo Zhanglong as an officer; Wang Jingwei as head of the Propaganda Department, Yun Daiying as secretary; Yu Youren as head of the Workers and Peasants Department, Shao Lizi as secretary, and Deng Zhongxia as an officer; Ye Chucang as head of the Youth and Women’s Department, He Shizhen as secretary, and Xiang Jingyu as assistant; Mao Zuzhong as head of the Investigation Department, and Lin Huanting as head of the Accounting Section. After Hu Hanmin and Wang Jingwei left Shanghai, the Organization and Propaganda Departments were taken over by Ye Chucang and Dai Jitao, respectively.

Except for the Investigation Department, which had relatively little actual work, the various departments of the Executive Department were managed by communists such as Mao Zedong, Yun Daiying, Deng Zhongxia, and Xiang Jingyu. The Executive Department successively established committees including the Women's Movement Committee, Youth Committee, Propaganda Committee, Education Committee, and Workers' Movement Committee, involving relevant communists and members of the Kuomintang. In March of the 13th year of the Republic of China (1924), the Executive Department, together with over 80 Shanghai groups, held a memorial service for Lenin. On March 24, the Executive Department published the weekly journal "Comments on Comments." On March 12 of the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925), Sun Yat-sen passed away, and the Executive Department and all district party offices solemnly held memorial activities. In January of the 15th year of the Republic of China (1926), the Second National Congress of the Kuomintang officially decided to disband the Executive Department. In the same month, communists and left-wing members of the Kuomintang established the Special Municipal Party Department of the Kuomintang in Shanghai.

The former site of the Shanghai Executive Department was converted into a church in the 1930s, repurposed as a private school in the 1950s, and is now occupied by the Shanghai Tianming Electronics Company on the ground floor and residential units on the upper floors. Both the interior and exterior of the building have been altered, though its structure remains largely the same. It was designated as a Cultural Relics Protection Unit of Shanghai Municipality on May 26, 1959.