Walking in their footsteps

Members of the Communist Party wearing uniforms of the Red Army set off from the site of Liping Meeting, the first meeting held by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of CPC in 1934 during the Long March period, in Liping county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, on July 7, 2012. More than 500 Party officials took part in the annual retracing of the route of the Long March, a military retreat from 1934 to 1936 by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, forerunner of the People's Liberation Army. [Photo/Xinhua]