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Roads and railways were used as links to connect all of North China into a solid , widespread siege , in order to strangle the Eighth Route Army and its base areas in this net .
 location: North China; organization: the Eighth Route Army
Given options, please tell me the categories of all the listed entity words.Output format is "type1: word1; type2: word2". 
Option: date, organization, person, geographical social political, national religious political, facility, cardinal, location, work of art, law, event, product, ordinal, percent, time, quantity, money, language 
Text: {0} 
 Entities: North China, the Eighth Route Army 
Answer:
 location: North China; organization: the Eighth Route Army