An armed police lays a flower-decorated basket in front of a monument marking the joining of forces of the Red Army at Jiangtaibao in Xiji county of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, northwest China, Oct. 22, 2006. Jiangtaibao is the place where the first and second front armies of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army joined forces on Oct. 22, 1936, marking the final victory of the "Long March". (Xinhua Photo)

Li Zhanrong, aged 86 and an old Red Army soldier, cherishes the memory of past experiences in front of a monument marking the joining of the forces of the Red Army at Jiangtaibao in Xiji county of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, northwest China, Oct. 22, 2006. A total of 4500 representatives gathered here on Sunday to attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Long March. (Xinhua Photo)

Representatives from different sectors lay flower-decorated baskets to the Monument marking the joining of forces by the Red Army in Jiangtaibao in Xiji county of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, northwest China, Oct. 22, 2006. (Xinhua Photo)