The Long March was a strategic operation undertaken between 1934-1936 by China's communist-led Red Army when being pursued by hordes of Kuomintang (KMT) troops, which involved moving the headquarters of the Communist Party of China and its armed forces, mainly from their revolutionary base in southeastern Jiangxi Province to a remote area bordering the northwestern Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.

It is an epic story of self-sacrifice, patriotism and defying the odds which saw officers and soldiers of the Red Army, the predecessor of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), crossing iron chain suspension bridges under heavy enemy fire, fading across rivers in rapid currents, climbing towering and snow-covered mountains as high as 5,000 meters above sea level and traversing human-swallowing bogs.