I'm currently with dozens of media colleagues in Fujian province to report on the preparations for the first National Youth Games and learn about the rough times here during the 1930s.

After a refreshing tour in Fuzhou, we travelled to Shanghan county, a famous and storied revolutionary area in Longyan city on Sunday.

Battling steady rain, we visited the site of the Ninth Party Congress, or Gutian Conference, in Gutian town to brush up on an event which profoundly affected the destiny of the Communist Party.

The site of the Ninth CPC Congress, known as the Gutian Conference, in Gutian town in Shanghan county, Fujian province. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]

Presided over by Mao Zedong in December 1929, the meeting streamlined the Party’s ideology by upholding proletariat thought and consolidated the Party’s absolute leadership over the Red Army.

Top Party officials have frequently returned to Gutian over the last decade.

Hu Jintao, then Party general secretary, visited in February 2012 and celebrated the Chinese Spring Festival with villagers. Xi Jinping, Hu’s successor, attended a military political work conference here last October to outline tasks and goals for the army's development.

That afternoon we continued the journey to Caixi, a town that ranks alongside Gutian to make Shanghan a crucial revolutionary center.

A remote and small town, Caixi was actively involved in recruitment for the Red Army during the Second Revolutionary Civil War (1927-1937). More than 3,700 of its residents, accounting for 80 percent of local adult men (aging 16 to 55) and one fifth of the total population took part in the Red Army during that time.

Caixi also led all the Communist Party’s revolutionary bases in political and economic construction, education and treatment of military families.

A local museum commemorates Mao Zedong’s three visits to Caixi from 1930 to 1933 to study its useful development experiences.

We ended the day with a play about Caixi people’s huge sacrifice for the revolutionary cause. The actors are all interpreters from the Mao museum.

It is a great way to save costs, and an even better way to preserve and promote Caixi's legacy with such a vivid art from.