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China’s Long March region highlights transport, industry and public services
The article looks at development in southern Jiangxi, in eastern China, where the Red Army began the Long March more than 90 years ago.
It describes new railways, highways and an airport, along with projects to improve irrigation and electricity supply.
The region has also built up manufacturing, including textiles, electronics, furniture and advanced equipment.
One company’s new air-conditioning compressor is reported to use 40% to 60% less energy than traditional models.
Health care has improved through a partnership between a local hospital and Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, which has sent experts to help.
The article also says local spending on people’s needs has risen, with support for health care, housing and rural services.
These changes matter because they are presented as efforts to improve living conditions in a region long associated with poverty and limited transport.
The article gives no specific next step or timetable for the development plans described.
Ganzhou in Jiangxi province has expanded transport links, industrial production and public services in the region where the Long March began.
The city’s international land port has handled more than 1,800 China-Europe and Central Asia freight trains.
Ganzhou has developed four industrial clusters each valued at more than 100 billion yuan and has more than 3,100 large-scale industrial enterprises.
The article highlights improvements in healthcare, irrigation, water supply and other services for residents.
It presents these changes as part of the region’s efforts to advance development and improve people’s livelihoods.
- Who
- Ganzhou city and communities in the old revolutionary base area of southern Jiangxi.
- What
- The article describes improvements in transport, industry, infrastructure and public services.
- When
- The article was published on October 12, 2026, and reports developments from different years, including projects and figures from 2025.
- Where
- Ganzhou and surrounding areas in Jiangxi province, China.
- Why
- The article says the projects are intended to support regional development and improve residents’ livelihoods.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The new workshop, which we invested more than 300 million yuan in last year, has increased production efficiency by more than 30%.
In the past, patients from the old revolutionary base area often had to travel far to Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou for this kind of surgery; now people can have it done at a local hospital.
We had spent more than half a year doing research at more than 30 clients, and based on our own technical foundation, we judged that we had a 70% chance of success.
I usually eat lunch in the canteen, then take a walk and enjoy the sun in the square; life is getting more comfortable.
The provisional central government of the Chinese Soviet Republic was established in Ruijin, Jiangxi.
Mao Zedong and local residents dug the well now known as the Red Well in Shazhouba.
Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital began managing Ganzhou Municipal Hospital, and the hospitals later jointly built a national regional medical center.
Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital Ganzhou Hospital performed corrective surgery on a 14-year-old patient with complex congenital heart disease.
China News Service published the article describing development in Ganzhou and the surrounding region.
- International rail freight
- More than 1,800 China-Europe and Central Asia trains operated from Ganzhou International Land Port
- Furniture exports
- Ganzhou’s Nankang district sells furniture to more than 100 countries and regions
- Industrial clusters
- Four clusters valued at more than 100 billion yuan each
- Industrial revenue
- Ganzhou’s large-scale industrial businesses recorded more than 560 billion yuan in revenue in 2025
- Regional medical support
- 184 Guangdong experts have worked in the area in 15 groups since the hospital partnership began
- Rural water coverage
- Rural tap-water coverage in Ganzhou reached 95.2%
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