Sun Yat-sen's Former Presidential Palace Memorial Hall

Sun Yat-sen's Former Presidential Palace Memorial Hall

Sun Yat-sen's Former Presidential Palace Memorial Hall is a national AAA-level tourist attraction, a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit, a classic red tourism destination, and a patriotic education base.

Sun Yat-sen's Former Presidential Palace Memorial Hall is a heritage site-based memorial museum established on the site of the former Presidential Palace, a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit. The original site of the Presidential Palace is located at No. 18 Dongsha Street, Textile Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou. Between 1917 and 1925, Sun Yat-sen established the Presidential Palace here twice to lead China’s democratic revolution.

The memorial hall covers a total area of 8,020 square meters, consisting of two main buildings in the north and south, east and west plazas, and a gatehouse. The two main three-story Western-style buildings feature arched structures. The South Building houses the “Century of the Presidential Palace” restoration exhibition, while the North Building features a basic historical exhibition and thematic displays on “Sun Yat-sen’s Three Attempts to Establish Revolutionary Governments in Guangzhou.”

In 1981, a proposal was submitted during the first session of the fifth Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Guangdong Province: to promptly renovate the former site of President Sun Yat-sen’s Presidential Palace located in Henan (southern bank of the Pearl River), the city.

In 1983, the former site of Sun Yat-sen's Presidential Palace was designated by the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government as part of the second batch of key cultural relics protection units in Guangzhou.

In 1984, a proposal was submitted during the second plenary session of the sixth Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Guangdong Province: to swiftly restore and open the former site of President Sun Yat-sen’s Presidential Headquarters in Guangzhou.

In 1992, the Guangdong Agricultural Machinery Supply Company, which was using the former site of the Presidential Palace, applied for project approval to relocate in order to restore the “Sun Yat-sen Former Presidential Palace.” In the same year, the Guangzhou Cultural Relics Management Committee responded to a suggestion by a municipal NPC deputy to repurpose the site as a Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall.

In November 1996, the former site of Sun Yat-sen's Presidential Palace was announced by the State Council as a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit.

On October 19, 1998, the former site of the Presidential Palace was taken over, and relocation work for the first phase involving over 60 resident households was completed in preparation for establishing the museum.

From 1999 to 2000, renovation work was carried out on the South and North Buildings of the Presidential Palace, along with environmental improvements in the surrounding area.

In July 2001, the “Century of the Presidential Palace” restoration exhibition in the South Building was completed, and the first phase of the site was opened to the public.

In December 2001, the historical exhibition “Sun Yat-sen’s Three Attempts to Establish Revolutionary Governments in Guangzhou” in the North Building was completed, and the second phase of the site was opened.

In 2002, the second phase of relocation work for over 70 households began, along with the restoration project of the gatehouse of the former site of the Presidential Palace.

Address: No. 18 Dongsha Street, Textile Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou

Type: Museum / Memorial Hall

Recommended visiting time: Approximately 2 hours

Phone: 020-89012366; 020-89012802

Opening Hours:

9:00–16:30 (Closed on Mondays)

Ticket Information:

Free admission.

Transportation

Bus: Daxianshu Fu Station: Routes 8, 11, 24, 121, 121A, 131A, 131B, 182, B21

Jiangwan Bridge South Station: Routes 11, 16, B5, 59, 65, 91, 93, 112, 129, 220, 264, 276, 285, 299, 551

And Peak Hour Express Line 12

Water Bus: Take the Fangcun–Sun Yat-sen University line or Huangsha–Canton Tower line to Daxianshu Fu Pier

Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925), whose given name was Wen, courtesy name Zaizhi, literary names Risun and Yixian, childhood name Dixiang, alias Zhongshanqiao, commonly went by the name Zhongshan. He was born into a farming family in Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan County (now Zhongshan City), Guangdong Province. In his youth, influenced by the tradition of struggle among the people of Guangdong, he admired the revolutionary cause of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He was a pioneer of China’s modern national democratic revolution, a great forerunner of the Chinese democratic revolution, the founder of the Republic of China and the Kuomintang, an advocate of the Three Principles of the People, and the creator of the Five-Power Constitution. He was the first to raise the banner of complete anti-feudalism… More detailed information about Sun Yat-sen ++

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Further reading:

·National Second-Class Museum of China

·Fourth Batch of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level