The reconstructed Nantong Telecom Museum opened to the public on June 22 in celebration of the CPC centenary. [Video by Gu Ling/ntfabu.com]

The reconstructed Nantong Telecom Museum, located in Chongchuan district, Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province, was officially opened to the public on June 22 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.

In 1895, Zhang Jian, a local industrial magnate and scholar, founded the Nantong Dacong Telephone Company, which marked the start of Nantong's telecommunication industry and had a deep influence on its development.

Originally built in 2006, the Nantong Telecom Museum collected more than 1,000 pieces of telecommunication equipment and facilities and over 1,500 pieces of various historical paper materials.

The new museum showcases the development history of Nantong's telecom industry from 1895 to 2020 through an orderly arrangement of real objects and historical data.

With five exhibition areas, the new museum highlights things such as Zhang Jian's patriotism, the rapid development of Nantong's telecom industry, 5G technology, and the Digital China strategy.

At the launch ceremony, the Party school and the publicity department of the Nantong municipal Party committee, the municipal federation of trade unions, the municipal association for science and technology, and the municipal education bureau designated the Nantong Telecom Museum as an on-site teaching site for the Party school, an ideological and political education base for staff in Nantong, a demonstration education base for science popularization, and a moral education base for primary and middle schools in the city.