延安位于陕西省北部，地处黄河中游，是中国革命的圣地。毛泽东等老一辈革命家曾在这里生活战斗了十三个春秋，领导了抗日战争和解放战争，培育了延安精神，为中国革命做出了巨大贡献。延安的革命旧址全国数量最大、分布最广、级别最高。延安是全国爱国主义、革命传统和延安精神教育基地。延安有9个革命纪念馆，珍藏着中共中央和老一辈革命家在延安时期留存下来的大量重要物品，因此享有"中国革命博物馆城"的美誉。
　　Yan'an, located in north Shanxi Province and in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, is a holy land of Chinese revolu-tion where the old generation of revolutionaries including Mao Zhedong used to live and fight for 13 years, leading the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the Lib-eration War, cultivating the Yan'an spirit and making tre-mendous contribution to the Chinese revolution. With the best revolutionary sites in terms of number, extensiveness and level across the country, Yan'an is well recognized as a national education base for patriotism, revolutionary tra-ditions and the Yan'an spirit. Yan'an boasts 9 revolution-ary memorial halls which hold a huge number of significant objects left by CPC Central Committe and the old genera-tion of revolutionaries,enjoying a high reputation as "the museum city of Chinese revolution."