Red Army's First, Second and Fourth Front Armies and 25th Army 红军第一、第二、第四方面军和第二十五军

Xi Jinping recalled the Party's leadership of the Red Army's Long March from October 1934 to October 1936, saying it defeated attempts to encircle, pursue, block and intercept the army and accomplished a strategic relocation northward to resist Japanese aggression.

Xi Jinping pointed out that, from October 1934 to October 1936, our Party led the Red Army's First, Second and Fourth Front Armies and its 25th Army on the great Long March, which shook the world and left an illustrious mark on history. The Red Army's Long March traversed more than 10 provinces and covered 25,000 li, thwarting pursuit, encirclement, interception and blockade by more than a million enemy troops. It proclaimed the complete failure of the Kuomintang reactionaries' plot to eliminate the Communist Party of China and the Red Army, victoriously accomplished the strategic relocation northward to resist Japanese aggression, and successfully opened a new chapter in the Chinese revolution. This earth-shaking revolutionary feat was of great significance in the history of our Party, country and military, and profoundly influenced the process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. This heroic epic of extraordinary grandeur is forever inscribed on the monument to the Chinese revolution and forever remembered in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people.