Road to Renewal
Traveling into Zuoquan County in Shanxi Province, one will see energetic change in full swing—many places in the county are under construction, from rural cooperatives to factories and cultural tourism bases.
The county, once called Liaoxian, was renamed in September 1942 after Zuo Quan, four months after his death in the region as he and other comrades attempted to break out of encirclement by the Japanese invading army. Zuo was a general with the Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces that fought the Japanese invasion from 1937 to 1945.
The county’s mountains provided a
