These schools are mainly located along the Long March route and in 89 counties (cities) in some old revolutionary base areas. Even phonetics classrooms, multi-media classrooms, electronic lesson preparation rooms and campus LANs are built in some schools. As a result, the study environment for a great batch of students in the poverty-stricken areas along the Long March route has been improved significantly and the enrolment rate of the children of school age has been upped accordingly.

　　In order to observe the 70^th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March with actual deeds, the construction of these schools began in early April this year in accordance with the written instructions of the leaders of the Central Military Commission and the general headquarters/departments of the PLA and by following the unified arrangement of the General Political Department of the PLA. Most of these schools are built in the places where major battles were fought, or important conferences were held, or in the places that have milestone memorable significance, e.g. Ruijin in Jiangxi Province, Zunyi in Guizhou Province and Huining in Gansu Province.

　　By Dong Qiang

　　(Oct 31, PLA Daily)