Source: Xinhua 新华 | Author: 习近平 (Xi Jinping), General Secretary of the CCP Central Committee, President of the People’s Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission

Xinhua, Beijing, October 22

新华社北京10月22日电

Speech at the Meeting Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army’s Long March

在纪念中国工农红军长征胜利90周年大会上的讲话

(October 22, 2026)

（2026年10月22日）

Xi Jinping

习近平

On October 22, the meeting commemorating the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army’s Long March was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CCP Central Committee, President of the People’s Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech. Photo by Xinhua reporter Yue Yuewei.

10月22日，纪念中国工农红军长征胜利90周年大会在北京人民大会堂隆重举行。中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平发表重要讲话。新华社记者 岳月伟 摄

Comrades:

同志们：

Today, we are gathered here solemnly to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army’s Long March.

今天，我们隆重集会，纪念中国工农红军长征胜利90周年。

More than 90 years ago, our country and nation faced internal turmoil and external threats. Japanese aggressors intensified their invasion of China, while Kuomintang reactionaries launched repeated large-scale “encirclement and suppression” campaigns against revolutionary base areas led by the Communist Party of China. Because of the erroneous leadership of “Left” dogmatism within the Party, the Central Revolutionary Base Area’s fifth counter-campaign against “encirclement and suppression” failed, and other revolutionary base areas also suffered setbacks. The Party and Red Army reached a critical juncture of life and death.

90多年前，我们的国家和民族内忧外患，日寇加紧对华侵略，国民党反动派向中国共产党领导的革命根据地接连发动大规模“围剿”。由于“左”倾教条主义在党内的错误领导，中央革命根据地第五次反“围剿”失败，其他革命根据地也遭受挫折，党和红军到了生死存亡的危急关头。

Under these grave circumstances, from October 1934 to October 1936, our Party led the Red Army’s First, Second, and Fourth Front Armies and the 25th Army in carrying out the great Long March, which shook the world and shines in the annals of history. The Red Army traversed more than ten provinces and marched 25,000 li, crossed nearly 100 rivers, climbed snow-covered mountains, passed through vast grasslands, fought more than 600 campaigns and battles, and smashed the encirclement, pursuit, obstruction, and interception of more than one million enemy troops. It proclaimed the complete failure of the Kuomintang reactionaries’ attempt to destroy the Communist Party of China and the Red Army, successfully achieved the strategic shift northward to resist Japan, and opened a new chapter in the Chinese revolution.

在这样的严峻形势下，从1934年10月至1936年10月，我们党领导红军第一、第二、第四方面军和第二十五军，进行了震撼世界、彪炳史册的伟大长征。红军长征纵横十余省，长驱二万五千里，跨越近百条江河，翻越皑皑雪山，穿过茫茫草地，进行600余次战役战斗，粉碎上百万敌军围追堵截，宣告国民党反动派消灭中国共产党和红军的图谋彻底失败，胜利实现北上抗日的战略转移，成功开创了中国革命新局面。

After the main Red Army forces set out on the Long March, the Red Army units and guerrillas that remained in the revolutionary base areas, Red Army forces in the northwest, the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, Party organizations in Kuomintang-controlled areas, and other forces under the Party’s leadership all persisted in struggle under extremely difficult conditions and made indelible contributions to the Long March’s victory.