The Wuhan office of the Eighth Route Army was established in 1937 as the open office of the Communist Party of China in the then-Guotong District, and is also the secret office of the Yangtze River Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Party and state leaders who have worked and lived here include Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, Ye Jianying, Bogu, Deng Yingchao, etc. The office was blown up by American aircraft during the Japanese occupation in 1944, rebuilt in 1978, and opened to the public on March 5, 1979. Comrade Ye Jianying wrote the name of the memorial hall.