The Long March, Faith and People Power
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BEIJING, June 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A news report by China.org.cn on CPC centenary:
Why The Red Star Shines Over China? The army led by the CPC was finally forced to carry out a strategic transfer, known as the Long March. It was later proved that the arduous Long March revived the army. During the Long March, the CPC s army fought all the way, and finally broke through encirclement by Chiang s troops.
The Long March, Faith and People Power
Marxist philosophy holds that the future is bright while the road ahead is tortuous. This also applies to the Communist Party of China (CPC) which believes in Marxism.
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ON 15 JANUARY 1935, a consequential meeting of the Communist Party of China politburo began in the city of Zunyi. Its deliberations would help Mao Zedong (above) take control of the CPC. Zunyi had been captured from nationalist forces the week before as part of the “Long March,” the Red Army’s response to the Kuomintang’s Fifth Encirclement Campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet.
By the time of the Zunyi conference, the Red Army had been on the retreat from pursuing Kuomintang forces for three months. On 16 January, Mao who had been chairman of the Jiangxi Soviet but lost much of his political and military power once the central party leadership relocated to the province in the early 1930s launched a blistering criticism of the CPC’s military line, as he had done in two recent politburo conferences, at Tongdao and Liping in December 1934. At Zunyi, a majority of the delegates agreed with his proposal to