The Memorial for the Site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai will be open to the public on July 1, when the CPC celebrates its 100th founding anniversary, the municipal government announced at a news briefing on Thursday.

The renovation of the site and the construction of the memorial, which is being built next to the site where 13 Chinese delegates and two foreign delegates from the Communist International convened the First CPC National Congress in July 1921, will be completed by May. The memorial will then begin trial operations for two months before its official opening on July 1, said the municipal government.

Hundreds of exhibits illustrating the history of the founding of the Party will be on display in the new memorial, which will feature an exhibition area of close to 4,000 square meters, almost quadruple that of the site that had been serving as a memorial itself since 1952.