BEIJING -- At six in the morning, under a billowing flag hoisted at the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s Jinggangshan training school, hundreds of CPC officials wake to the sound of a bugle call, the same call that was experienced by the Red Army during the country's revolutionary period more than 80 years ago.
Jinggangshan, located in east China's Jiangxi Province, is the cradle of the Chinese revolution, where there are many sites featuring the history of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (1928-1937).
Jiang Shihai, an official from the CPC Bengbu Municipal Committee of east China's Anhui Province and a trainee at the Jinggangshan Cadre College, recently spent two hours walking up a steep mountain road near the school, carrying a shoulder pole loaded with heavy buckets of grain.
More than 80 years ago, Mao Zedong and Zhu De, two of the CPC's greatest leaders, walked the same steep road to transport grain and food for the Red Army.
Jiang said that during the revolutionary period, officials and soldiers alike had to carry large quantities of grain over dozens of kilometers on foot to support the military's efforts.
About 800 km away from Jinggangshan, a museum built at the site of the first National Congress of the CPC is opening in Shanghai, with a group of provincial and ministerial officials from the Shanghai-based China Pudong Cadre College paying a visit.
Ni Xingxiang, the head of the museum, greets the visitors with tales of the CPC's 90 years of history and the life experiences of the CPC's 13 founding members.
