The origin of August 1 Day Army Day is 1927. 1 August 10, China led the northern expeditionary army of more than 30,000 people in Zhou Enlai? , He Long? , Ye Ting? , Zhu De? , Liu Bocheng and other leaders held an armed uprising in Nanchang, Jiangxi, and fired the first shot against the Kuomintang reactionaries. It marks that China has entered a new era of armed revolution led by China, and marks the birth of a new type of people's army in China.

July 1933, 1 1 chinese soviet republic Provisional Central Government decided August 1 day as the anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army (the predecessor of the China People's Liberation Army) according to the proposal of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission on June 30.

On July 14, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued "Letter to Red Army Soldiers on August 1st Anti-imperialist and Anti-war Day and Red Army Memorial Day", calling on "the workers and peasants of the whole country to arm themselves to join the Red Army, support our invincible Red Army and comfort their families." At the same time, the Red Army is required to improve our military technology, exercise itself, disarm the enemy and arm itself in the "new war", so that our bloody Red Army can grow and develop in constant victories.