Red-hot travel spots

Historical revolutionary sites are becoming increasinglypopular with tourists. Zhu Linyong reviews some of the best.

1. Xibaipo

The former headquarters of the CPC in Xibaipo is located in a hillside village near Hebei province's Taihang Ranges. From 1948, CPC leaders, including Mao Zedong, Zhu De and Liu Shaoqi, led major battles against the Kuomintang army from Xibaipo. The CPC's central committee convened an important meeting in Xibaipo on Sept 8, 1948. Mao put forward a timetable for eliminating the Kuomintang troops at the conference and famously said, "We will construct a new China, ruled by the working class, peasants and the petty bourgeois It is going to be the people's government."