By Erik Nilsson | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-25 09:04 Share CLOSE The Nanniwan Revolutionary Site hosts a square containing what it claims is the world s largest hammer-and-sickle statue.[Photo by Erik Nilsson/China Daily]
Yan an s chapter in China s revolutionary saga makes the city a living museum that shows how its past gives new life to the country s present and future, Erik Nilsson reports.
Yan an is celebrated as a red hot spot in the land of yellow earth . The city on the Loess Plateau was the revolutionary base of the Communist Party of China after the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi following the arduous Long March in the 1930s.
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