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Yan'an
Yan'an is a city in northern Shaanxi, China, on the Loess Plateau. After the Long March it was the headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party from 1937 to 1947, where Mao Zedong consolidated his leadership and the party developed its policies. The area was an old frontier district on the northern edge of the Chinese heartland.
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