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Fire destroys Mao's former Wuhan residence
The fire in late Chairman Mao Zedong's former residence was put out at 2:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province.
A dozen of fire engines joined the efforts to extinguish the fire. No casualties have been reported yet and cause of the fire is still under investigation.
Sources said that a team of construction workers were in the building to refurbish the interior of a meeting room before the fire.
Meiling had been the most important residence for Chairman Mao in his later years of life except Zhongnanhai, the compound of the Chinese government in Beijing.
Chairman Mao frequently stayed in the residence for one month to half a year each year in his late period of life.
At Meiling compound, he had dealt with various domestic or international affairs and met with celebrities from home and abroad.
Chairman Mao once wrote in a letter in the 1960s, describing Meiling as a place with "white clouds and yellow cranes", a Chinese poetic way to depict an undisturbed sanctuary.
Meiling compound was opened to the public in 1993 to receive tourists who want to get glimpses of Chairman Mao's daily life in his later years.
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