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Why did Hankou become a temporary Nationalist headquarters in 1937?
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The Three Gorges Dam spanning the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) near Yichang, Hubei province, China.
Hankou became a temporary headquarters for the Nationalist government in 1937 following the fall of the Chinese capital, Nanjing, to invading Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War.12
As the Japanese military advanced into central China, the Chinese government withdrew to Hankou, which served as a base for resistance until the city fell to the Japanese in October 1938. The Nationalists subsequently relocated their government further west to Chongqing.321