Introduction to Hada Pu

Hadapu is located in the northwest of Dangchang County, Longnan City, Gansu Province. The town has a total area of ??141 square kilometers and a cultivated land area of ??39,600 acres. The town has jurisdiction over 29 administrative villages, with 5,880 households and 27,747 people. Hadapu was an important market town that the Red Army passed through during the Long March. Hadapu has special significance in the history of the Red Army's Long March. In September 1935, the First Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army led by Mao Zedong passed by Hadapu and stationed here for seven days. It held an emergency meeting of central leaders and a meeting of cadres above the regiment. Mao Zedong made a speech "On the Situation and Tasks". Political Report. For the first time, he clearly proposed "going to northern Shaanxi" and made the important decision to set the foothold of the Long March in northern Shaanxi. Therefore, Hadapu was a veritable “gas station” on the Red Army’s Long March, and an important decision-making place that determined the fate of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army’s Long March1. Hadapu Railway Station is the intersection of Lanzhou-Chongqing Railway and Chengdu-Lanzhou Railway.