Jinggang Mountain

The fourth set of RMB, back of the 100-yuan note

Jinggang Mountain inJinggangshan City is also known as Ciping. The mountain is in the southwest of Jiangxi Province, near the Hunan border. This remote region is famous in China as the area where a young Mao Zedong and other communist leaders set up the rural Jiangxi Soviet, an outpost against Kuomintang suppression. It was from here, after the People's Liberation Army troops, led by Zhu De and Zhou Enlai, who fled here from Nanchang , that the epic Long March (1934-1936) was to begin.

Santanyinyue (Three Pools Mirroring the Moon)

The fifth set of RMB, back of the 1-yuan note

Santanyinyue, or the 'three stone tower in the lake', is one the ten points of interest surrounding West Lake . The West Lake is 5.6 sq km and has a circumference of about 12 kilometers. It has an average depth of l.8 meters, and its water surface measures 3.5 kilometers from north to south and 2.9 kilometers from east to west. The north-south Sudi Causeway and the east-west Baidi Causeway divide the lake into five sections: the Outer Lake, the Beili (North Inner) Lake, the Xili (West Inner) Lake, Yuehu Lake and Xiaonan (Mini South) Lake.

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