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LushanLushan is the name of a region, and a mountain called Mount Lushan, in China's Jiangxi Province, located between Lake Boyang and the city of Jiujiang. Its history dates thousand of years in China's past. It is a popular domestic and foreign tourist attraction and hosts both the famous mountain resort town of Lushan and the Lushan National Geological Park (spanning five hunderd square kilomoters). The resort town of Lushan (Kuling in English) was established in the late 1800s by and for European and American travellers, and is distinguished by the colonial architecture of its buildings. After 1949, it became famous as a favoured meeting place for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. It hosted the Eighth Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee, also known as the Lushan Plenum, which began in 23 July and convened on 2 August, 1959. It also hosted the Second Plenum of the Ninth Central Committee in August of 1970.
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