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Long March stories on Tibetan Thangkas

[2016-09-06 16:16]

An exhibition of Thangkas, or scroll paintings, showing the Red Army during the Long March, opened in Southwest China's Sichuan province on Tuesday.

Long March spirit remembered in Red Army school

[2016-09-02 15:26]

For many Chinese people, the story of the Golden fishing hook is one of the most vivid and touching memories of the Long March.

It was a miracle I survived, says youngest participant of Long March

[2016-09-02 10:10]

"It is a miracle that I could survive the path full of dangers and also full of promises in the one-year Long March," He Jiesheng, the youngest participant of the expedition, wrote in a book in 2013.

Free medical for Red Army vets

[2016-09-01 19:34]

Red Army veterans will receive pro bono clinic services by specialists from Beijing as the government launches a one-week campaign, starting from September 3, the National Health and Family Planning Commission announced on Thursday.

Targeted poverty alleviation reaps sweet fruits in Hunan

[2016-09-01 10:18]

A village whose name was once a byword for poverty has changed its destiny thanks to targeted poverty alleviation through the introduction of cash crops.

Revived traditional art lifts Dong people out of poverty

[2016-09-01 09:56]

Dongjin, or the Dong brocade, has recorded the history of the Dong ethnic group for thousands of years. Now it is helping them move out of poverty.

East China's long march out of poverty

[2016-08-25 09:40]

Nine months ago, 56-year-old farmer Yang Lanying's family was earning no more than 2000 yuan a year - the equivalent of just $300.

Long March veteran continues fighting

[2016-08-23 15:07]

Flanked by his ever-watchful nurse and carer, 101-year-old Red Army veteran Wang Chengdeng slowly but surely made his way towards an applauding Chinese media pack.

Women of the Long March: The untold stories

[2016-08-23 09:22]

The Long March is known as an expedition of untold hardship and sacrifice. Female soldiers also braved its dangers.

80 years on, foreigners on the Long March remembered

[2016-09-01 09:19]

Four score years ago, the Chinese Red Army clinched the victory of the 25,000-li (7767 miles) Long March from 1934 to 1936. Here are some foreign participants we will never forget.

Man who survived Long March, became neurosurgeon and trailblazer

[2016-08-30 17:09]

No one may have led a more legendary life than him: born in the year when the First World War broke out and still living today more than a century later; more interestingly he was among the one quarter of the total Red Army soldiers who survived the torturous Long March (1934 - 1936) and then became a Chinese trailblazer in neurosurgery with a doctorate degree from the Soviet Union.

86-year-old transforms her village by selling eggs online

[2016-08-30 13:07]

Liao Xiuying, a woman who survived the Japanese invasion more than half a century ago, is now helping to lift her village out of poverty with the help of e-commerce.

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