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Significance of victory in Huaihai Campaign
In this campaign, our army participated in the war with 600,000 troops, and the enemy dispatched 800,000 troops successively, which lasted for 65 days and wiped out more than 555,000 enemies. In the southern battlefield, Chiang Kai-shek's elite troops were wiped out, and the vast areas of the Central Plains north of East China and the Yangtze River were basically liberated, making Nanjing, the reactionary ruling center of the Kuomintang, under the direct threat of the People's Liberation Army.

Liberated the vast area north of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and made the main force of the Kuomintang army retreat in the battlefields of East China and Central Plains, which greatly promoted the liberation process of China.