Zunyi Meeting

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The Zunyi Meeting was an enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held at Zunyi, Guizhou Province, in January 1935, during the Long March. It focused on discussing and rectifying the errors in military affairs. Owing to the wrong leadership of Wang Ming's "Left" adventurism, the Red Army sustained constantly great losses at the outset of the Long March, In this desperate moment, Mao Zedong advocated that the Red Army should change its original operations and march towards Guizhou Province taken by the weak-forced Kuomintang reactionaries. His proposal of a Peasant-led rather than a urban-based revolution first came to power.