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"english": "跟随毛主席长征",
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"text": "In August 1935, the Red Army continued to march north in two columns — the right led by the Central Committee of the Party and Comrade Mao Tsetung; the left by Chu Teh, Chang Kuo-tao and Liu Po-cheng. However, when the left column reached Apa (now in the Apa Tibetan Autonomous Chou in Szechuan), Chang Kuo-tao again refused to carry out the decision of the Central Committee and, detaining Chu Teh and Liu Po-cheng, took the troops south.",
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"text": "The road between Maowen and Peichuan counties was opened to traffic on 30 December, 1973. The \"Maopei\" road runs (east) from the county town of Maowen in Apa Tibetan Autonomous Chou to Peichuan County in Mienyang special district, and is over 110 km long.",
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"text": "Last year both the total grain output and the number of livestock of the Apa Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture were 3 times those of the year preceding the democratic reform.[…]\nIn Apa Prefecture, two-thirds of the cadres are of minority nationalities and many of the leading cadres were poor peasants or herdsmen before liberation.",
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