Visitors head to the Xibaipo Memorial Hall in Pingshan county, Hebei province. TIAN RUIFU/FOR CHINA DAILY
Hebei village, the former headquarters of the Party and residence of its leaders including Chairman Mao, now a popular red tourism site
A calendar lying open on a desk was turned to March 23, 1949. At Chairman Mao Zedong s former residence in Xibaipo village, Hebei province, the prop alludes to a watershed moment in the century-old history of the Communist Party of China.
That day, Mao and other revolutionaries packed up and left Xibaipo, a sacred place for the then 28-year-long Communist struggle, which paved the way for the founding of the People s Republic of China in 1949.
By HUANG ZHILING | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-27 08:00 Share CLOSE Both Jiajin Mountain and the Songpan Grasslands, where the Red Army soldiers climbed the snowy mountains and crossed the dangerous grasslands, appeal to today s visitors with pandas or stunningly beautiful natural scenery.
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Mention of the Long March reminds people of the odyssey of the Red Army soldiers climbing the snowy mountains and crossing the dangerous grasslands. The Red Army soldiers climbed eight snowy mountains and the Songpan Grasslands, all of which are in Aba, says Jiang Zuquan, an information officer with the Aba prefecture committee of the Communist Party of China, in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture in Sichuan.