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Chinese leaders watch gala marking 80th anniversary of Long March victory

Xinhua, October 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior leaders on Wednesday watched a gala commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Long March.

The Long March was a military maneuver carried out by the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of the Communist Party of China from 1934 to 1936. Endi