A scene from The Red Boat, an opera that depicts the Party's founding story with a focus on its first National Congress. It was staged recently in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, and will tour nationwide.[Photo provided to China Daily] A century ago, in 1921, the first National Congress of the Communist Party of China was concluded on a red boat on Nanhu Lake in Jiaxing city, Zhejiang province. Today, a century later, an opera, The Red Boat, depicting the Party's founding story with a focus on that first, fateful gathering, was staged on Thursday and Friday in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province.