Before that declaration of overarching statehood, the area was known as the Hunan-Jiangxi Revolutionary Base (Chinese: 湘赣革命根据地; pinyin: Xiāng-Gàn Gémìng Gēnjùdì).
The Revolutionary Base headquarters and later constituent Soviet administrative centre was at Lianhua County in the present-day Pingxiang municipal region.
The range also nestled the famous Jinggangshan redoubt of the anti-Rightist troops of the abortive Autumn Harvest Uprising of 1927.
The Hunan–Jiangxi Soviet's main armed force was known as the South-Eastern Hunan Red Army Independent Division.
Moving out in August 1934, the Soviet's military (by now designated Sixth Army Group) crossed the Xiang River and climbed into the Miao-nation (Hmong-nation) mountain homeland, there to join in October the forces of the Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Soviet.