/Until date of founding of Communist Party of China becomes the subject of dispute – 6/29/2021 – world Until date of founding of Communist Party of China becomes the subject of dispute – 6/29/2021 – world ksuadminJune 29, 2021 The Chinese Communist Party was founded in a Shanghai gangster region a hundred years ago. Life in the so-called French concession, an area of great police corruption, was conducive to criminal activity in the metropolis, which already had 1.7 million inhabitants and had become a major center of opium trafficking. A prominent mafioso of the time, Du Yuesheng, operated there. Precisely because of less rigid control, the region was also a point of political movement. The Chinese Communist Party held its first congress in a shikumen-type building, an architectural style of Chinese and Western inspiration typical of Shanghai, in 1921. The site, transformed into a political memorial to the regime, can be visited today.