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ideologically and the military politically. As progress was made in the
struggle, the Party established the Central Revolutionary Base as well as the

Western Hunan-Hubei, Haifeng-Lufeng, Hubei-Henan-Anhui, Qiongya,
Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi, Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi, Hunan-Jiangxi,
Zuojiang-Youjiang, Sichuan-Shaanxi, Shaanxi-Gansu, and
Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou bases. In addition, the Party also set up Party
organizations and other revolutionary organizations in KMT-controlled areas

and launched revolutionary mass struggles.
However, the fifth counter-encirclement and suppression campaign in the

Central Revolutionary Base ended in failure as a result of the misguided
leadership of Wang Ming’s ―Left‖ dogmatism within the Party. The Red
Army was forced to make a strategic shift, and arrived in northern Shaanxi
Province after enduring the extraordinarily bitter and arduous journey of the

Long March. The errors of the ―Left‖ line caused enormous losses to
revolutionary bases as well as revolutionary forces in KMT-controlled areas.

In January 1935, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee convened a
meeting in Zunyi on the Long March, at which Comrade Mao Zedong was
confirmed as the de facto leader of the Central Committee and the Red Army.
The meeting laid the groundwork for establishing the leading position within
the Central Committee of the correct Marxist line chiefly represented by

Comrade Mao Zedong, as well as for the formation of the first generation of
the central collective leadership with Comrade Mao Zedong at its core. The
meeting opened a new stage in which the Party would act on its own

initiative to address practical problems concerning the Chinese revolution,
and saved the Party, the Red Army, and the Chinese revolution at a moment
of greatest peril. It also subsequently enabled the Party to defeat Zhang
Guotao’s separatism, bring the Long March to a triumphant conclusion, and
open up new horizons for the Chinese revolution. The Zunyi Meeting is

therefore considered a pivotal turning point in the Party’s history.
After the September 18th Incident in 1931 during the War of Resistance

against Japanese Aggression, the conflict between China and Japan gradually
overtook domestic class conflict as the issue of primary importance. As
Japanese imperialists intensified their aggression against China, the country
was plunged into an unprecedented national crisis. The Party was the first to

propose that China should fight Japanese aggression with armed resistance,
and launched extensive resistance movements. It also facilitated a peaceful
settlement of the Xi’an Incident, thus playing a historic role in promoting a
second period of cooperation between the KMT and the CPC and the united

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