Honghu

Honghu is a region level city in the city locale of Jingzhou, in the south of Hubei territory, People's Republic of China. The city lies on the northwest bank of the Yangtze River, opposite Hunan Province and Xianning, Hubei. It is named after the adjoining Hong Lake, which since antiquated occasions has intermittently flooded. The conventional Chinese occasion Duanwu Jie, celebrated on the 5^th day of the 5^th lunar month, highlights watercraft races which are kept running on Hong Lake. By methods for its well known lake, Honghu City produces forty sorts of fish and a wealth of plants, for example, lotus, reed and a kind of dark algae. As of 2000, Honghu City had a populace of at least 335,618 people.

Honghu is commended as an imperative supporter of the Communist side amid a century ago's Chinese Civil War. Westerners know it for New Zealand socialist Rewi Alley's help work and Gung ho co-agent development. Honghu and different locales around its lake were a piece of a critical socialist fortress called the Hunan-Western Hubei Revolutionary Base Area. The Hunan-Western Hubei Soviet was really an accumulation of a few detached bases connected together by underground and guerrilla exercises. The Honghu Base, the biggest, was itself the question of four Encirclement Campaigns, the remainder of which was strategised as one phase of the extensively fruitful Encirclement Campaign against Hunan-Western Hubei Soviet.