Provinces, regions vie for Long March heritage
Source: Xinhua |
February 17, 2012, Friday
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SOCIAL sciences academies in 15 Chinese provinces and regions have decided to team up in their efforts to seek a linear world heritage status for the country's Long March route, the campaign's initiator said yesterday.
Li Houqiang, secretary of the Communist Party of China commission of the Sichuan Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, said the academy's call for cultural heritage protection has received warm feedback.
The Long March was carried out by the communist troops of the Red Army from 1934 to 1935 that helped it combat the Kuomintang regime. It started in Ruijin in eastern Jiangxi Province and ended in Yan'an, western Shaanxi Province, extending over 12,500 kilometers.
Yang Xiannong, an academician on Mao Zedong Thoughts at the academy, said the Long March route is a world-famous cultural resource. He said the 15 academies have vowed to coordinate in the preparation work for the submittal of the application to the China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage and to UNESCO, as well the construction of a Long March museum.
Li Houqiang, secretary of the Communist Party of China commission of the Sichuan Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, said the academy's call for cultural heritage protection has received warm feedback.
The Long March was carried out by the communist troops of the Red Army from 1934 to 1935 that helped it combat the Kuomintang regime. It started in Ruijin in eastern Jiangxi Province and ended in Yan'an, western Shaanxi Province, extending over 12,500 kilometers.
Yang Xiannong, an academician on Mao Zedong Thoughts at the academy, said the Long March route is a world-famous cultural resource. He said the 15 academies have vowed to coordinate in the preparation work for the submittal of the application to the China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage and to UNESCO, as well the construction of a Long March museum.
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