The New Cultural Movement Memorial Hall in the Red Building attached to Peking University, has been opened to the public.
The memorial hall was built by the Museum of the Chinese Revolution.
The five-story building, with a floor-space of 10,000 square meters, is the former seat of the No.1 Institute of Peking University.
On May 4, 1919, over 3,000 university students left Democracy Square north of the building and marched toward Tian'anmen Square, starting the patriotic "May 4 Movement", which is also called the "New Cultural Movement" in China's modern history.
The movement was widely seen as a boost for the spread of Marxism in China and gave a strong push to the emergence of the Communist Party of China (CPC) which came into being two years later.
Li Dazhao and Mao Zedong, founders of the CPC, and Lu Xun, a well-known writer, worked in the building for some time.
(Xinhua News Agency May 16, 2002)
