Ruijin

Ruijin 瑞金市
County-level & Sub-prefectural city
Ruijin
Location in Jiangxi
Coordinates: 25°53′10″N 116°01′37″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Jiangxi
Prefecture-level city	Ganzhou
Postal Code	342500

Ruijin
Chinese	瑞金
Postal	Juikin
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Ruìjīn Wade–Giles Jui4-chin1

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.

It is most famous as one of the earliest centers of Chinese communist activity. After being forced out of Jinggangshan in the late 1920s by the Kuomintang, the Communists fled here, taking advantage of Ruijin's relative isolation in the rugged mountains along Jiangxi's border with Fujian. In 1931, under Mao Zedong's leadership, the Chinese Soviet Republic was established here, with Ruijin serving as its de facto capital. By 1934, they had again been surrounded by Chiang Kai-shek's forces. It is from here that the famed "Long March" began.

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

Transport

• Ganzhou–Longyan Railway

On 22 May 2016 the BBC reported that four cars fell into a sinkhole in Ruijin City.