() is one of the 17
towns
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an or ...
in
Shanghang County, in southwestern
Fujian
Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its ...
province. It is famous as the site of the 1929
Gutian Congress where
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong pronounced ; also Romanization of Chinese, romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the List of national founde ...
affirmed his leadership of the Zhu-Mao 4th Army () and stamped out democratic tendencies among the troops. The town and site may be reached by following National Route 319 west from
Xinluo
Xinluo District (; Hakka: Sîn-lò-khî) is a district of Longyan, Fujian Province, China, with a population of approximately 842,000.
It was formerly named Longyan County ().
As Xinluo is a part of the Minnan Hokkien territory, the Longyan ...
, the Longyan municipal centre. , it has one residential community and 20 villages under its administration.
References
Township-level divisions of Fujian
Shanghang County
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