CPC 101: Yan'an, a Sacred Place of the Revoluion

Yan’an is a city located in the hinterland of Northwest China.

Here, the Communist Party of China commanded the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Chinese Civil War for thirteen years, leading the Chinese people towards national independence and people’s liberation.

At that time, young intellectuals came one after another to Yan’an to join the Communist Party of China. Many foreign journalists also came there to introduce the CPC and China to the outside world.

In 1936, American journalist Edgar Snow came to Yan’an and investigated the revolutionary bases in northwestern China for four months. Based on the first-hand information he obtained, he wrote the book Red Start Over China to let the world know about China and learn about the Chinese revolution.

During the Yan'an period, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Mao Zedong at its core engaged in economic, political, military, and cultural constructions of the Yan’an revolutionary base, and made a series of major decisions concerning the future and destiny of the Chinese revolution, which laid the foundation for the founding of the People’s Republic of China.