Ruijin

Ruijin
瑞金市
Juicheng, Juiking
Ruijin
Ruijin
Location in Jiangxi
Location in Jiangxi
Coordinates: 25°53′10″N 116°01′37″E / 25.886°N 116.027°E / 25.886; 116.027
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceJiangxi
Prefecture-level cityGanzhou
Postal Code
342500
Ruijin
Chinese瑞金
PostalJuicheng

Ruijin (Chinese: 瑞金; pinyin: Ruìjīn) 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.

It was an early center of Chinese communist activity. In the late-1920s, the Nationalists forced the Communists out of the Jinggang Mountains and fled 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.[citation needed]

During the Cultural Revolution, the Ruijin Massacre in September and October 1968 killed over 300 people in the county.

Ruijin is a popular destination for red tourism and ecotourism. It is a pilgrimage for Maoists from China and around the globe.


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