Hadapu Red Army Long March Memorial Hall

　　The Hadapu Red Army Long March Memorial Hall is located in Hadapu Town, Dangchang County, Gansu Province, situated along the key transportation route of National Highway 212. It is 35 kilometers south of the county seat, 35 kilometers north of the county seat of Minxian, and 70 kilometers west of Lazikou in Diebu. All three main forces of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army—the First, Second, and Fourth Front Armies—passed through Hadapu during the Long March. On September 18, 1935, the Party Central Committee led the First Front Army in breaking through the treacherous Lazikou and capturing Hadapu. On the afternoon of the 20th, central leaders including Mao Zedong arrived in Hadapu. From newspapers obtained at the local postal agency, they learned that there were Red Army forces and a revolutionary base in northern Shaanxi, which led to the major decision to establish Hadapu as the final destination for the Red Army’s Long March. On September 23, the Central Committee led the Shaan-Gan Detachment in leaving Hadapu and heading north. On August 9, 1936, the 30th Army of the Fourth Front Red Army captured Hadapu after passing through Lazikou; on the 25th, the Sixth Army of the Second Front Red Army moved into Hadapu. On September 1, the headquarters of the Second Front Red Army and the Second Army arrived in Hadapu. By October 4, they had all successively headed north. When the State Council announced the list of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level, it referred to Hadapu as “the crucial decision-making site that determined the fate of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army’s Long March.”