Gutian is one of the ten towns (镇) in Shanghang County

Shanghang County

Shanghang is a populous county of Longyan Municipality in Fujian Province.-Transportation:Part of Shanghang County is accessed by National Route 319, coming west from Xinluo , the municipal seat...

, Longyan

Longyan

Longyan is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Fujian province, China.-Geography:It is situated in the upper reaches of the Jiulong and Tingjiang rivers...

, Fujian

Fujian

' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

 province. It is famous as the site of the 1929 Gutian Congress

Gutian Congress

The Gutian Congress or Gutian Conference was the 9th meeting of the Chinese Communist Party and the first after the Nanchang Uprising and subsequent southward flight of the insurrectionist troops...

 where Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...

 affirmed his leadership of the Zhu-Mao 4th Army (朱毛四军) and stamped out democratic tendencies among the troops. The town and site may be reached by following National Route 319 west from Xinluo

Xinluo District

Xinluo District is a county-level territory under the jurisdiction of Longyan, in Fujian Province, China.Xinluo District has a population of approximately 50,000....

(新罗区), the Longyan municipal centre.