I. From the Revolutionary Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants to the Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants

1927 After the failure of the Great Revolution, the producers of China * * * realized the importance of armed struggle and military organization from the failure. /kloc-in August, 2000, under the leadership of China's former enemy committees Zhou Enlai, He Long, Ye Ting, Zhu De and Liu Bocheng,

In Nanchang and its vicinity, most of the officers' education groups of the 2nd Army 1 1 Army, 4th Army, 20th Army and 5th Army of the National Revolutionary Army and the police of Nanchang Police Station held armed uprisings respectively.

However, under the historical conditions at that time, during the uprising, the banner of China's * * * production party was not publicly displayed, and the uprising troops still used the designation of the Second Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which was still called the National Revolutionary Army.

Second, from the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants to the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army

1on March 7, 937, after Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, the generals of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army sent electricity and volunteered to kill the enemy. Representatives from the Central Committee held many negotiations with the Kuomintang government on the reorganization of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants. It was not until August 22 that the Kuomintang government officially announced that the main force of the Red Army had been reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army.

On August 25th, the Central Military Commission issued an order to reorganize the first, second and fourth armies of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants and the Red Army of Workers and Peasants in northern Shaanxi into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with Zhu De as commander-in-chief, Peng as deputy commander-in-chief, Ye Jianying as chief of staff, and Zuo Quan as deputy chief of staff and deputy director of the political department.

The army * * * 46,000 people. Subsequently, the divisions of the Eighth Route Army successively went to the anti-Japanese front in North China.

1 1 In September, the Military Commission of the National Government ordered the Eighth Route Army to be changed into the National Revolutionary Army 18 Army, which was subordinate to the Second World War Zone, and appointed Zhu De as the commander-in-chief of 18 Army and Peng as the deputy commander-in-chief.

14, Zhu De and Peng issued a circular on the reorganization of the Eighth Route Army into the National Revolutionary Army 18 Army: "The Nanjing Military Commission telegraphed on the 11th that my own Middle Route Army was reorganized into the 18th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with Zhu De as the commander-in-chief and Peng as the deputy commander-in-chief."

Since the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, the name of the Eighth Route Army has left a deep impression on the masses. Although the national government ordered it to change the serial number, in general. People are still used to calling it the Eighth Route Army.

Third, from the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army to the China People's Liberation Army.

1945 after War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, the Kuomintang ruling clique headed by Chiang Kai-shek monopolized the fruits of victory, wiped out the China * * * production party and its armed forces, and plotted to launch a civil war.

In order to adapt to the situation that the Kuomintang is about to launch a civil war, the central government has formulated a strategic policy of "developing northward and defending southward" and quickly adjusted its strategic deployment: the main force of 1 10000 and more than 20,000 party, government and army cadres were transferred from Shanhaiguan liberated area to the northeast; The New Fourth Army in Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu, southern Anhui and central Anhui withdrew to the north of the Yangtze River;

Hunan People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Army (that is, the Eighth Route Army's southward detachment) and our troops from Henan Military Region withdrew to the Hubei-Henan Liberated Area with Tongbai as the center and joined the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army.

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The origin of the name of China People's Liberation Army;

1At the Gao Qian meeting of the Central Military Commission held on August 20, 944, Liu Shaoqi said: "Regular troops and guerrillas are collectively called the People's Liberation Army, or the People's Liberation Army of the National Revolutionary Army."

This is the first time that the title of "People's Liberation Army" has appeared in the archives so far. However, in various regions, the word "People's Liberation Army" is often preceded by place names, such as "South Road People's Anti-Japanese Liberation Army", "Guangdong People's Anti-Japanese Liberation Army" and "Shandong People's Liberation Army".

129 August 1945 to 10 10 October, during the Chongqing negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the focus was on the reorganization of the people's army and the problems existing in the political power in the liberated areas. Due to strategic and political considerations, the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission did not continue to put forward and use the title "People's Liberation Army" for the people's army under their leadership.

1946 uses the name "China People's Liberation Army" for the first time.

1June, 946, a full-scale civil war launched by the Kuomintang broke out. The title of "People's Liberation Army" has been put forward again. On September 1946, Liberation Daily once again used the title of "People's Liberation Army" in its editorial. Subsequently, in articles published by Mao Zedong and Xinhua News Agency, the name of "People's Liberation Army" also appeared in public many times.

194610/0 On March 3rd, Liberation Daily officially put forward the title of "China People's Liberation Army" for the first time in its editorial "Struggle for the January Armistice Agreement and Solving the CPPCC". 1947 10 June10, the China people's liberation army manifesto was published, which was an important symbol of the name change of the whole army as "people's liberation army".

By the beginning of 1948, all units of the whole army were renamed as China People's Liberation Army. In June 1 948165438+1October1China Central Military Commission * * * formulated the "Regulations on Unifying the Organization of the Whole Army and the Corps designations", and all units above the regimental level were called "China People's Liberation Army".

Since then, the title of "China People's Liberation Army" has been used ever since.

People's Network-Jiang: Three Historical Evolution of the Name of China People's Liberation Army