Founded in 2002 by artist Lu Jie with Qiu Zhijie, the Long March is a complex operation that encompasses dealer, gallery, curator, commercial enterprise and publishing house. It involves 250 artists working on 12 sites along the historical Long March route (undertaken during the 1930s by Mao Zedong’s Red Army) as well as a gallery, the Long March Space, in Beijing’s 798 district. Having shown at Frieze Art Fair last autumn, Long March’s expanding ambitions were further signalled this year with an artist, Guo Fengyi, in Art Basel’s Art Statements section.