The Hailufeng Soviet was the first Chinese Soviet territory, established in November 1927, by Peng Pai

Peng Pai

Peng Pai born in Haifeng County , Guangdong Province, China, was a pioneerIn the Preface, the author called Peng Pai "the father of Chinese rural communism"...

 with Ye Ting

Ye Ting

Ye Ting , born in Huiyang, Guangdong, was a Chinese military leader. He started out nationalist and went to the communists....

's remnant troops from the Nanchang Uprising

Nanchang Uprising

The Nanchang Uprising was the first major Kuomintang-Communist engagement of the Chinese Civil War, in order to counter the anti-communist purges by the Nationalist Party of China....

. After the arduous August–September Little Long March and the near-rout at the Battle of Shantou

Battle of Shantou (1927)

The Battle of Shantou was an incident in the first phase of the Chinese Civil War.- Time & Place :...

 these troops were much diminished and were directed by the ComIntern

Comintern

The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern, also known as the Third International, was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow during March 1919...

 to lie low in the deep countryside and to avoid any further battles.

Location

The territory lay in Haifeng

Haifeng

Haifeng County is a county of Shanwei prefecture, southeastern Guangdong province, Southern china.The people there speak a Teochew dialect related to Hoklo and Hakka....

 and Lufeng counties of what is now Shanwei

Shanwei

Shanwei is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong province of Southern China, People's Republic of China. It borders Jieyang to the east, Meizhou and Heyuan to the north, Huizhou to the west, and looks out to the South China Sea to the south...

 municipality on the coast of Guangdong

Guangdong

Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...

Province.