Long March exhibit inspires foreign VIPs

General Abdoulaye Fall, Senegal's ambassador to China, said visiting the ongoing Long March exhibition at the China People's Revolution Military Museum on Sunday takes him back in time.

That is, not only to the Red Army's implausible strategic retreat from Kuomintang forces 80 years ago that eventually led to victory, but also to his own experience of four decades in his homeland's military.

"This was very moving for me because it reminds me of some parts of my own history, (events) I was myself involved in during different periods of my military career," Fall said.