Based on the provided source material, there is no information regarding a city named Xiangqian. The subject "Xiangqian" appears to be confused with Xu Xiangqian, who was a Marshal of the People's Republic of China.
Xu Xiangqian was born into a wealthy landowning family but joined the Kuomintang's National Revolutionary Army in 1924. During the Chinese Civil War beginning in 1927, he served as the commander of the Fourth Red Army within the Eyuwan Soviet. After retreating to northern Sichuan following a KMT encirclement campaign, Xu eventually rejoined the Red Army under Mao Zedong's leadership after surviving a political shift involving his former leader, Zhang Guotao.