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The Shaanxi Footprints and Spiritual Heritage of the 25th Red Army’s Long March —A Contemporary Interpretation Based on the Spirit of the 4th Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee

New Exploration of Ideology and Politics / 2026,8(1): 15-26 / 2026-01-30 234 211

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• Authors: Zhibin Li
• Information:

  Party School of Shaanxi Provincial Committee of CPC, Xi’an, China

• Keywords:
  the 4th Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central; Committee; Long March; Shaanxi Footprints; Contemporary Value
• Abstract: The Communique of the 4th Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee listed “advancing toward building China into a country with a strong socialist culture” as one of the important deployments. As a core symbol for nurturing the national spirit and forging consensus on values, it serves as a crucial underpinning for implementing this strategic construction. The Long March is a pivotal practice in the formation and inheritance of red culture. As the only main Red Army force that completed its entire Long March in northern China and took the lead in reaching northern Shaanxi, the 25th Red Army’s Long March through Shaanxi from 1934 to 1935 profoundly influenced the course of the Chinese Revolution. From the core perspective of “relational value”, sorts out the key processes of the army’s entry into Shaanxi to establish base areas and its convergence and reorganization from three dimensions: military coordination, political interaction, and militarycivilian symbiosis, based on its historical value and contemporary significance, proposes a three-dimensional transformation path: educational inheritance empowering Party spirit cultivation, Party-mass construction pooling joint efforts, and regional development activating red value. This not only represents the contemporary continuation of the spirit of the 25th Red Army’s Long March in Shaanxi, but also constitutes a concrete practice of implementing the 4th Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee’s deployment on building a culturally powerful country and promoting revolutionary culture, providing practical guidance for empowering high-quality development with red resources and consolidating the local foundation for building a culturally powerful country.
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.35534/neip.0801002 (registering DOI)
• Cite: Li, Z. B.(2026). The Shaanxi Footprints and Spiritual Heritage of the 25th Red Army’s Long March—A Contemporary Interpretation Based on the Spirit of the 4th Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. New Exploration of Ideology and Politics, 8 (1), 15–26.