With all the twists, turns and countermarches along the 12,500-km-long journey, the soul-stirring stories of the legendary Long March starting in 1934 have taken on a new lease of life 85 years on.
35-year-old Zhou, an electrician with China's state-owned State Grid in the country's central city of Wuhan, rarely gets home on time these days, since his workload has doubled ahead of Wuhan's hosting of the 7th Military World Games later this year.
From October 1934 to October 1936, the Red Army, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), carried out a daring military maneuver that laid the foundation for the eventual victory of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
The first China-Africa Peace and Security Forum kicked off in Beijing on July 15, gathering nearly 100 senior representatives from the defense departments of 50 African countries and the African Union to discuss new approaches of China-Africa security cooperation in the new era.
