Long March Route Offers Tourism OpportunitiesChina has opened a new tourism route featuring some famous Long March sites to attract curious sightseers.Tourists are encouraged to travel along the Chishui River in southwest China's Guizhou province to see battlefields and meeting places of the Red Army 60 years ago. The Red Army, created by the Communist Party of China, began the Long March in 1934 to foil the reactionary Kuomintang forces' attempt to strangle it in the cradle. The Red Army crossed the Chishui River four times and held a historic meeting nearby, at which Mao Zedong resumed the leading position in the Party. The army then fought several decisive battles in Guizhou and finally reached its destination in Shaanxi province in 1936. In the 1980s, American writer Harrison Salisbury traveled along the Long March road and then wrote his bestseller, "Long March, An Untold Story." The State Tourism Administration is staging a tourism festival together with the local government in this famed region, which is also home to Maotai, the most famous brand of liquor in the country. |
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