Besides that, Fan Changjiang showed his determination and strong animosity towards feudalism warlords, rich landowners and bad scholars in this book.

In December, when the famous Xi'an Incident broke out, Fan grasped the opportunity to interview Zhou Enlai at the risk of his life.

He held various official posts, such as: In the book, Communication and essay, Fan believed that newspaper was a political tool.

In addition, Fan suggested that if there were correct politics to make instructions, the news work would be an important power to accelerate the advancement of the society.

As described before, Fan wrote a series of articles disclosing the north-west rotten policy, the secret agreements and the hidden side of the red army.

As the president of the Chinese Journalists Association Committee, Fan focused on the overall development of journalism in China.

He requested all the journalists to have respectable personality, important sense of responsibility and outstanding quality in news reporting.

At that period of time, he wrote a lot of articles such as On 7 July 1937, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out.

During the Sino-Japanese War, Fan Changjiang, Hu Yuzhi and other journalists founded the International News Association at Changsha in 1936.

It is named after Fan for his bold and objective coverage of the Chinese Revolution led by the CCP against the Kuomintang regime.

At that time, Fan's journey to Xi'an and Yan'an as a reporter had changed his political standpoint from a patriotic [journalist to a communist who fought for the proletariat.

The release of his book The Journey to Northern Shaanxi (陝北之行) facilitated the understanding of Chinese citizens from different classes about the CCP and Red Army.

It was the first time Fan got direct contact with the CCP and his mind got changed after talking to Mao Zedong overnight.

Later, Mao even wrote two letters to Fan answering his questions concerning the topic about the unity of the nation against Japan.

It also showed the hidden side of the red army and exposed all the secret agreements made among the leaders at that time.

On December 12, 1936, Xi'an Incident broke out in China during the invasion of Japan and nationalist-communist confrontation (1927-1936), which had great effects on political and military aspects.

On February 4, 1937, Fan was finally permitted to interview CCP negotiator Zhou Enlai, who would become the first premier of People's Republic of China in 1954.

In Yan'an, he visited the "Red Army University" (紅軍大學) and interviewed some senior and important officers in the CCP, for example, Lin Biao, Liao Chengzhi and Zhu De, especially the first chairman of People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong on February 9.

Fan told Mao that he wanted to stay in northern Shaanxi; in order to get more information about CCP, so that he could write a few book on them to propagate the party ideology.

After returning to Shanghai, Fan wrote the news article Turmoil in the Northwest (動盪中之西北大局) on the Ta Kung Pao on February 16.

This article finally shocked the public and embarrassed Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of Nationalist Government by unveiling the truth in Xi'an.

Fan had written a lot of exclusive articles about Red Army March and Xi'an Incident, which acted as a forwarding power to the Chinese history.

He was an initial reporter writing about the details of Red Army March in his two articles called "Minshan Nanbei Jiaofei Zhi Xianshi" (岷山南北剿匪軍事之現勢) and "Chenglan Jixing" (成蘭紀行).