In front of Lai Puxiu's house, a group of "soldiers" in the octagonal hats and cloth shoes of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army are pounding glutinous rice into a paste. A loudspeaker blasts out the revolution song "Ten farewells to the Red Army."
"Some day, someone will write the full epic of this exciting expedition," thus wrote Edgar Snow, on his pages of Red Star Over China, a historical account of the birth of Communist Party of China published in 1937.
At midnight on April 30, 1937, a beautiful American woman, 30, secretly jumped out the window of her room on the first floor of the Xijing Hotel in Xi'an, the capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province.
A compilation of remarks by Chinese President Xi Jinping at a gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the success of the Long March has been published by the People's Publishing House
As China's Long March rocket carries two Chinese astronauts into space, the country celebrates another historic moment: the 80th anniversary of the end of the Long March undertaken by the Red Army, on Saturday.
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Eighty years after the end of the epic Long March by the Chinese Red Army, President Xi has called for moving forward in "a new long march" to realize national rejuvenation.
Xi hailed the Long March as a remarkable turning point－from setbacks to victory－for the CPC and China's revolutionary cause, after which the CPC launched the struggle for national independence and the liberation of the people.
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China's small screen is now seeing an increasing number of television series commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of the Red Army's Long March.
Each generation has its own "long march," and they should proceed in their own way, says President Xi Jinping on the 80th anniversary of the epic expedition.
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