The site of the 8.7 Conference (Baqi Huiyi) is located at No. 139, Poyang Street, Wuhan City, Hubei Province.

The site of the 8.7 Conference is actually a three-storeyed western-style building built in 1920. It was originally a mansion called Yihe New House built by British people. On the first floor were stores run by foreigners and all the living places were on the second and third floors. The second floor later became a residence of the aid agricultural advisor sent to China by the Former Soviet Union after the National People's Revolutionary Army occupied Wuhan City during the Northern Expedition period. The 8.7 Conference was held right in the advisor's room. The site has been well preserved and the conference hall of the meeting has already been restored. Historical materials and cultural relics of the conference are in display on the first floor.

In 1927, the First National Revolution failed due to repeat betrayals of Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei. Chinese revolution was then in a critical stage. In this case, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held an emergency meeting on August 7, 1927, which was historically called the 8.7 Conference. Qu Qiubai, Li Weihan, Mao Zedong, Su Zhaozheng, Luo Yinong, Zhang Tailei, Deng Zhongxia, Lu Dingyi, Deng Xiaoping and so forth attended the meeting. During the conference, Chen Duxiu's Right-deviationist Capitulationism Route was criticized and rectified and Chen Duxiu himself was dismissed from his post as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPC. A temporary Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPC was established, which was headed by Qu Qiubai. The Central Committee also decided to launch the Autumn Harvest Uprising in provinces like Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong and so on in autumn that year under the general guidance decided on the Conference of launching land revolution and opposing the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang with armed forces. Mao Zedong was elected alternate member of the temporary Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPC and made a speech in which he put forward the famous thought-- political power grows out of the barrel of a gun..

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