In June 2015, President Xi Jinping visited Guizhou and his first stop was Zunyi. He encourages everyone to remember the Zunyi Conference as an important part of the Communist Party of China history.

The Red Army failed in their battle against the fifth encirclement and suppression campaign, and was forced to embark on the Long March.

With heavy casualties, the Red Army wended their way to Guizhou and held the famous Zunyi Conference in 1935, where most comrades rectified the left-leaning errors in military affairs, and proposed that Mao Zedong should take over military command.

Laoyashan Mountain is the site of the battle of Zunyi. And all over the mountain you can see the remnants of war. There are bullet holes in boulders, trenches in the dirt. The Red Army prevailed in what is one of their most important victories since the Long March began.

孔霞大姐从小受到爷爷的影响，对长征精神有自己的解读：“其实我们每个人在生活中，都会碰到困难。但是不去直面这些困难，人就要停滞不前。所以我觉得，我们跟爷爷学习的长征精神就是不畏困难。”

每个城市有每个城市的历史。遵义人在用他们各自独特的角度讲述自己的故事。重要的是，历史被保存了下来，故事才得以传承。

Every city has a story. As we saw here in Zunyi, every storyteller has a unique perspective. The important thing is that history is preserved, so that stories can continue to be told.

（编辑 周冬梅)