Zhou Enlai's former residence is located in Juma Lane in the northwest corner of Huai'an Town, Huai'an District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province. On March 5, 1979, Comrade Zhou Enlai officially opened his former residence to the outside world on the 80th anniversary of his birth. On December 11, 1984, Deng Xiaoping inscribed the plaque "Comrade Zhou Enlai's former residence". In January 1988, it was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit. The former residence consists of two courtyards connected East and west. On March 5, 1898, Zhou Enlai was born in a house on the east side of the courtyard. There are three houses facing west facing north of the former residence gate, which is the place where Zhou Enlai studied in his childhood. From the reading room to the west, across a square waist door, are three south-facing houses where his parents live. His stepmother, Chen Shi, and his nursing mother, Jiang Jiang Shi, live in Butterfly Hall. In the spring of 1910, 12-year-old Zhou Enlai left home with his uncle to study in Northeast China, and never returned home since.