Shaoshan, Hometown of Mao Zedong

Shaoshan is the birthplace of the late Chairman Mao Zedong. Now it has grown into a mountain-dominated city 100 kilometers southwest of Changsha, capital of Hunan Province. Mao more than any other modern leader is remembered as changing the fate of China.He was widely compared to the sun itself in his time, so Shaoshan was referred to as the “place where the sun rises.” Visitors stream in every year to tour the former residence of the great Chinese leader.

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