In his book "The Long March: The Untold Story," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Harrison Salisbury wrote: "Zunyi was over. The Long March continued. Mao was in charge. China's course had been set ...

Between Jan. 15 and 17, 1935, during the Long March, the renowned Zunyi Meeting was held here, a landmark event in the ...

The Communists resisted the Nationalists by escaping to Yan'an on the Long March in 1934 - and the future looked very bleak for Mao. A divided China, and invasion by Japan in 1937, created the ...

The meeting later proved to be a crucial turning point in the Long March. "Mao Zedong displayed remarkable military prowess in the subsequent battles, ultimately leading the Red Army to complete ...

It was on this occasion that Mao Zedong was first elected as the leader ... of the Kuomintang and shaped the course of the Long March about to unfold. It confirmed the military principles of ...