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Monday September 7
Last weekend, however, I was able to make a stopover in a place I was looking ahead to see: Jinggangshan in Jiangxi Province.It was in those mountains that Mao Zedong first organized the peasants and established a stronger for an armed struggle in the vanquished 1920s.
I had planned to do the holidays in February, but I was forced to postpone them because of the coronavirus pandemic.Now that the epidemic is largely under control in China, other people can enter the interior of the country almost freely.
My visit to the “revolutionary holy place” of the Chinese Communist Party was the first time I left Beijing in 8 months.When I arrived, I was surprised to see a lot of tourists.
In fact, “tourists” is not the right word. Most of them give the impression that they are participating in educational trips organized through organizations and companies related to the party.
Giant buses landed, one after the other, in teams of dozens, wearing Uniforms from the Red Army, the predecessor of the People’s Liberation Army, was a rather stage.
When I went to the Jinggangshan Revolution Museum, I discovered a long queue at the front for visitors to the group, on the other hand, no one waited at the door for the individuals.When I presented my passport, the assistant seemed surprised and spoke to his boss: “You are the first foreigner to come here since the coronavirus epidemic began,” the assistant told me.
He proved he hadn’t left China since mid-January and nevertheless let me in.
In the fall of 1927, after a failed armed uprising in Hunan province, Mao led the remaining troops and fled into the mountains, recruited deficient peasants and started a guerrilla war, descending from above and attacking landowners.
The Communist Party’s Central Committee sought to gain strength by organizing urban staff, but this concept fell to a slit in what is still an underdeveloped agricultural country.
The Communists were cornered through the Nationalist Party in the cities and threatened with collapse.But Mao avoided the besieged movement from his life-and-death crisis by adopting a strategy of “besieging agricultural villages.”His troops gained strength, and defeated the nationalist army some 20 years later, which led to the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Without replacing Mao’s strategy, which dates back to Jinggangshan, the Communist Party would not have taken power.For this reason, successive ideal leaders have been willing to the region.
Communist Party President and General Secretary Xi Jinping visited him in February 2016 and described the position as “a mountain of revolution,” “a mountain of struggle,” “a mountain of heroes” and “a mountain of glory.”
Political experts note that the Xi Strip and Route initiative, which calls for the creation of a large economic zone linking China to Europe through land and sea, is based on Mao’s strategy of “besieging agricultural village cities.”a strategy to combat the United States by strengthening China’s economic strength and rapprocheing emerging countries.
Looking at the teams in their Red Army uniforms, I think fashionable China had inherited Mao’s DNA.
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