Its famous Maotai Baiju (a typical Chinese brew) or simply Maotai, has been the toast of the elite for several thousand years. Amid glitzy advertising, sickly sweet wafts of alcohol, made from Sorghum, are inescapable inside the town, where nearly half the land is owned by the state-run Guizhou Maotai Liquor Company. But Maotai town has much more to offer than alcohol. Soon after the Zunyi conference, Red Army troops headed northwards to cross the Yangtze River and break out of the siege. In today’s Maotai, Red tourism coexists with the town’s liquor culture.

Source: The Hindu October 08, 2016 05:48 UTC