Western Fujian is a revolutionary base area opened earlier by the Central Soviet Area and China. Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yi, Wang Jiaxiang and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation fought and lived in this red land and carried out great revolutionary practice activities. Nine marshals, eight generals and many famous generals of New China have fought and lived in western Fujian.
In particular, Mao Zedong, a great man, creatively combined the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of the China Revolution in more than a year in western Fujian, and explored the way to save China from encircling the city from the countryside. Therefore, people also regard western Fujian as the birthplace of Mao Zedong Thought.
Therefore, the old revolutionary base areas in western Fujian are worthy of the name.