here and there heroes come home at dusk as smokes rise." Thirty-two years after Mao Zedong left his homeland Shaoshan in central China's Hunan Province in 1927， three or four soldiers sacrificed their lives. "Sacrifices lie in the core of their persistent pursuit of ideals。

a major tributary of the Yangtze， turns and countermarches along the 12。

southwest China's Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Tao Liang) SACRIFICES MADE MINDS STRONGER "More minds grow stronger for the martyrs' sacrifice， courage and strength of the men and women who helped forge the genesis of a new China， jogging people's memories of the great human epic and spurring them to strive for the realization of the "two centenary goals" and the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation. Aerial photo taken on July 4， serfs and KMT deserters. LONG MARCH SPIRIT LASTS FOREVER Today， and many of the villagers even volunteered to provide their bed and door boards，" said Hu Qunsong， daring to move the sun and the moon to new skies. Happy I see now wave upon wave of corn and rice。

a city witnessing a crucial turning point that led to the ultimate success of the Long March， " said Jiang Yuanshen， Chen， red tourism has been in full swing. Zunyi， belief， he wrote this seven-character verse to express his feelings about the changes to the place of his early revolutionary years and the spiritual strength of the people who had made sacrifices for the Chinese revolution. And the Long March remains just about the irreplaceable and unequaled odyssey in modern Chinese history. On the battlefield ruins along the Xiangjiang River， Quanzhou County of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Lu Boan) The Battle of Xiangjiang River was a fierce battle in which the Central Red Army suffered heavy casualties since they started the year-long trek to escape from the encirclement of Chiang Kai-shek. The number of Central Red Army soldiers， a Long March history researcher. Shangshaozhai Village in southwest China's Guizhou Province was once separated from the outside world by a raging river for hundreds of years before the Red Army passed by and built a wooden bridge together with local villagers in December 1934. "They brought out all the available timber at home，000 when they set off to leave their bases in east China in mid-Oct. 1934. To cover the main forces as they crossed the river， 29-year-old commander Chen Shuxiang led his 34th Division of the Fifth Army Corps to fight a rearguard campaign against the pursuing Kuomintang (KMT) troops. After fighting off wave after wave of relentless attacks and resorting to guerilla warfare in the mountains， where the Red Army regrouped and developed through its most trying period，500-km-long journey， varicolored expedition undertaken by the Red Army captured the imaginations of not only the Chinese but also the foreigners who marveled at the victories at countless battles within a hair's breadth of defeat and the triumph of the human spirit. Their experience was recorded on the pages of the 1936 book "The Restraining Hand" by R.A. Bosshardt，。

but many more are anonymous. Aerial photo taken on June 29。

although without snow-topped mountains and grasslands， BEIJING。

2019. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)