2. Qingyang was selected as the only northwest city in the 20 1 1 China Top Ten Characteristic Leisure Cities. 20 12 Qingyang continues to be selected as one of the top ten characteristic leisure cities in China.
3. It has a long history and is the only old revolutionary base area in Gansu Province. During the 22 years from 1927 to 1949, New China experienced three historical periods: Shaanxi-Gansu border revolutionary base, Northwest revolutionary base and Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia anti-Japanese base. 1927, the first rural party organization in Gansu was established in Ning County; 193 1 year, the first revolutionary armed force in Shaanxi and Gansu, Nanliang Guerrilla, was established; 1934, the Nanliang government, the first Soviet regime in the Shaanxi-Gansu border region, was established. The Shaanxi-Gansu border revolutionary base area centered on Nanliang in Qingyang City is the "only surviving" revolutionary base area in the country in the late period of the Second Revolutionary Civil War. Its existence provided a foothold for the Central Red Army and the Long March of the CPC Central Committee, and also provided a starting point for the three main forces of the Eighth Route Army to go north to resist Japan. When the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, most of the troops were stationed in Qingyang City.
4. The existing site of "Nanliang Government" in Qingyang, the site of Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government in Helianwan and the site of Shancheng Campaign are the patriotic and revolutionary traditional education bases determined by the state, province and city respectively. The spirit of the old liberated areas forged in the struggle between blood and fire is a precious spiritual wealth left by the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries to Qingyang people.