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China Focus: Over 300 artifacts, documents debut in Beijing as China marks 90th anniversary of Long March victory-Xinhua

BEIJING, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- More than 300 artifacts and historical documents related to the Long March are being exhibited for the first time at a military museum in Beijing, offering new details about an event that helped shape the history of the 20th century. The exhibition comes as China marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March, which concluded in October 1936 when the main forces of the Red Army broke through the siege of the Kuomintang forces and reunited in northwest China. The military odyssey of roughly 12,500 kilometers, which started in 1934, not only preserved the revolutionary forces, but also gave the Communist Party of China (CPC) a new foothold from which to grow the strength of the revolution, and a new starting point from which to carry the revolutio...
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