Long March

In Chinese history, the 10,000-km/6,000-mi trek undertaken from 1934 to 1935 by Mao Zedong and his communist forces from southeast to northwest China, under harassment from the Guomindang (nationalist) army; see China: history 1900–49, Guomindang–communist conflict.

Some 100,000 communists left Mao's first headquarters in Jiangxi province in October 1934, and only 8,000 lasted the journey to arrive about a year later in Shanxi, which became their new base. The march cemented Mao Zedong's control of the movement.