Site of Peking Press, museum in Xicheng, Beijing

The Site of Peking Press is a two-story brick-and-wood building at 30 Weiran Hutong, facing west, with a gray exterior and a street facade decorated with Western-style brick pilasters and a classical columned porch. It covers 876 square meters and opened on June 1, 2021, as the Red Press Museum, with exhibitions on the Jingbao newspaper and its president Shao Piaoping.

The Jingbao (Peking Press) was founded in Beijing during the Beiyang government period with Shao Piaoping as president. In 1919 it published his commentaries supporting the May Fourth students. On 24 April 1926 Shao was lured from the Soviet embassy and arrested by Zhang Zuolin's men; he was killed two days later and the paper was closed after issue No. 2275. The building, listed as a Beijing cultural relic in 1984, opened as the Red Press Museum on 1 June 2021.

The name Jingbao Guan comes from the newspaper Jingbao, not from trees. Shao Piaoping, the paper's president, published commentaries such as "Encouraging My Students" during the May Fourth Movement of 1919. The building later became housing, and the characters "营业室" (business office) remain visible on one wall.

The building sits on the south side of Weiran Hutong, just off Luomashi Street in Xicheng District, and faces west, so look for the grey two-storey facade with Western-style brick pilasters and a columned porch at the entrance. It opened as a museum on 1 June 2021 after the Xicheng district government cleared and restored the structure between 2018 and 2020. Allow time to read the exhibition texts, which are in Chinese.

The building later became housing, and the three characters "营业室" (business office) remain legible on one wall. Early residents were mostly staff from a Shanghai newspaper office. The Xicheng district government vacated and restored the site between 2018 and 2020.