Former Site of the East China Sea Working Committee of the CPC

Former Site of the East China Sea Working Committee of the CPC

The Former Site of the East China Sea Working Committee of the CPC is a patriotic education base.

Located at the three-way intersection of Nianmu’ao in Dongsha Town, Daishan County, there are two single-story houses along the street, facing east and covering a construction area of 55 square meters. From 1943 to 1948, this site served as the headquarters of the underground CPC Dinghai leadership bodies — the “Three Easts Working Committee” and the “East China Sea Working Committee.”

In March 1943, the anti-Japanese base area in eastern Zhejiang was established, and the task of constructing north-south maritime transport routes in the Three Easts region (YinDong, ZhenDong, FengDong, and Dinghai) was put forward. Comrade Zhan Buxing from the CPC Eastern Zhejiang Regional Committee served as the special commissioner for Dinghai County. In April, he arrived in Daishan and, together with local underground CPC member Tong Chunmei, rented two single-story houses from the Fei family in Nianmu. Posing as a married couple running a “Meifeng Grocery Store,” they used it as a front to establish the underground party’s leadership office and began the work of developing the new base area.

In 1947, under instructions from the Party Central Committee to launch struggles in areas controlled by the Kuomintang and restore the Three Easts Working Committee, Zhan Buxing was appointed secretary, and the leadership office remained in the “Meifeng Grocery Store.”

In January 1948, the Provisional Eastern Zhejiang Committee held an expanded meeting in Kong’ao, Siming Mountain, deciding to rename the Three Easts region as the East China Sea region and establish the East China Sea Working Committee, with Zhan Buxing as secretary. It was mandated to develop the East China Sea guerrilla zone along the coasts of YinDong, ZhenDong, and Xiangshan, and to carry out guerrilla warfare. The leadership office continued to be housed in the “Meifeng Grocery Store.” At that time, underground CPC member Wang Jiaheng had long infiltrated the Kuomintang and used his legitimate position as the captain of the Second Squadron of the Security Police of the Dinghai County Police Bureau to protect and safeguard the leadership of the East China Sea Working Committee. However, in October 1948, after the “Second Security Police Squadron” was disarmed by Tang Enbo and others on charges of “colluding with bandits,” the leadership office could no longer function, and Zhan Buxing withdrew from Daishan.

To preserve the “Former Site of the East China Sea Working Committee,” the Daishan County Committee and County Government renovated the original two houses. One of them has been repurposed, with exhibits of items once used by the “East China Sea Working Committee.” In August 1995, it was designated as a municipal-level patriotic education base. In December 2000, the Daishan County People’s Government listed the “Former Site of the East China Sea Working Committee” as a county-level cultural relics protection unit and erected a stele on the site inscribed with the six large characters “Former Site of the East China Sea Working Committee.”

To further inherit and promote the revolutionary spirit, in June 2002, the Dongsha Town Committee of the CPC and the Dongsha Town People’s Government established the Exhibition Room of Revolutionary Historical Traces of the East China Sea Working Committee. It mainly introduces the revolutionary armed struggle led by the East China Sea Working Committee during Zhan Buxing’s tenure as secretary of the Three Easts (East China Sea) Working Committee. The exhibition room covers an area of about 80 square meters, with a construction area of approximately 75 square meters and a usable area of about 51 square meters. It opened to the public in July of the same year after the relocation and renovation, and has since been fully restored. The exhibition area is mainly divided into three sections: Situation and Mission, Struggle and Strategy, and Remembrance and Inheritance.