Nie Zhengyuan stands at the site of a Red Army hospital in Xiaokou Village of Washi Township in Tongjiang County, southwest China's Sichuan Province on Oct. 14, 2016. Villager Nie Zhengyuan's family has maintained the martyr cemetery "Hongjunping", the final resting place of more than 3,000 Red Army soldiers, for more than 82 years. 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). (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
