In the spring of 1933 the "Left" leaders of the Provisional Central Committee of the CPC excluded Mao Zedong from leading posts in the Party and the army. Proceeding from realities, Deng Xiaoping, Mao Zetan, Xie Weijun, Gu Bai and other leaders of local administrations in the Central Revolutionary Base Area in Jiangxi Province nevertheless approved of Mao's line of active defence, which had been shaped in the campaigns against the enemy's "encirclement and suppression". They also supported the land policy, the economic policy and other correct policies proposed by Mao in the Central Soviet Area and resisted the wrong decisions of the "Left" deviationists. Deng and the others were attacked as taking part in factional activities connected with Mao Zedong and following the line of retreat and flight advocated by Right opportunists who were pessimistic about the revolution. Deng was dismissed from his posts as secretary of the Central Party Committee of Huichang, Xunwu and Anyuan counties and head of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, and inner-Party disciplinary measures were also taken against him. These unjustified attacks continued until the Central Red Army began the Long March in October 1934.