Former Residence of Martyr Wang Jiamo

Former Residence of Martyr Wang Jiamo

The former residence of Martyr Wang Jiamo is a cultural relic protection unit of Xiangshan County and a classic red tourism site.

The former residence of Martyr Wang Jiamo is located at No. 14-16 Beishan Road, Danxi Subdistrict, Xiangshan County. It occupies the west wing of the upper courtyard of the Wang family, situated at Xiqiaotou in Dancheng, where the martyr was born and grew up. The residence faces east and is a single-story brick-and-wood structure with a flush gable roof covered in small grey tiles. It has a total width of 13.20 meters and a depth of 5.0 meters, and is divided into three rooms and one corridor. The central room features a five-rafter beam structure with through-tenon construction, with the front eaves projecting and exposed, and the residence is well-preserved. On the occasion of the centennial commemoration of the martyr’s birth in 2006, renovations were carried out and the "Exhibition on the Revolutionary Deeds of Martyr Wang Jiamo" was set up. On October 30, 2007, it was designated as a Cultural Relics Protection Unit at the county level in Xiangshan, as part of the sixth batch.

Wang Jiamo, also referred to as Jiamo, with the childhood name Xiaoman. He joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1925 and became a member of the Communist Party of China the following year. He successively served as the Technical Secretary, Head of the Organization Department, and Secretary of the Ningbo Prefectural Committee of the CPC, as well as a member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the CPC, Head of the Organization Department, and Acting Secretary of the Provincial Committee. He was one of the key early leaders of both the Ningbo Prefectural and Provincial Committees of the CPC. In November 1927, while traveling to Wenzhou to implement the "Eastern Zhejiang Uprising Plan," he was unfortunately arrested and executed in Wenzhou, sacrificing his life at just 22 years old.