Xi underlines legacy of Long March

President Xi Jinping encouraged the Chinese people to be prepared for a new Long March toward national rejuvenation during a visit to a revolutionary base in Jiangxi province on Monday.

"We came here to the starting point of the Long March to experience the situation of the Red Army's departure during those years. Now there is a new Long March, and we should make a new start," Xi said at a memorial park in Yudu county, Ganzhou.

The Long March covered over 12,500 kilometers from October 1934 to October 1936. It was a military maneuver carried out by the Red Army and led by the Communist Party of China to combat the Kuomintang regime. The expedition, beginning in Yudu, laid the foundation for the Party's victory.