Ruijin

Ruijin () is a county-level city of Ganzhou in the mountains bordering Fujian Province in the south-eastern part of Jiangxi Province. Formerly a county, Ruijin became a county-level city on May 18, 1994.

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Settlement.name: Ruijin
Settlement.type: County-level & Sub-prefectural city
Settlement.image_skyline: Ruijin_Shazhouba_Geming_Jiuzhi_2014.05.30_16-39-34.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Ruijin
Settlement.image_map: Jiangxi Ruijin.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location in Jiangxi
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: People's Republic of China
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Jiangxi
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Prefecture-level city
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Ganzhou
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto
Settlement.postal_code_type: Postal Code
Settlement.postal_code: 342500
Chinese.psp: Juicheng
Chinese.c: 瑞金
Chinese.p: Ruìjīn

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It was an early center of Chinese communist activity and developed a reputation as cradle of the Chinese Communist Revolution. In the late-1920s, the Nationalists forced the Communists out of the Jinggang Mountains, sending them fleeing to Ruijin and the safety of its relative isolation in the rugged mountains along Jiangxi-Fujian border. In 1931, Mao Zedong founded the Chinese Soviet Republic (CSR) with Ruijin as its capital; it was called Ruijing by the CSR. The Communists withdrew in 1934 on the Long March after being surrounded again by the Nationalists.

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