August 1st Army Day

Every August 1st is the anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, commonly known as "August 1st" Army Day. On August 1, 1927, the Communist Party of China led the Northern Expedition Army of more than 30,000 people, under the leadership of Zhou Enlai, He Long, Ye Ting, Zhu De, Liu Bocheng, etc., to hold an armed uprising in Nanchang, Jiangxi, and fired the first shot against the Kuomintang reactionaries. On July 11, 1933, the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic, based on the recommendation of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission on June 30, decided that August 1 would be the anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (the predecessor of the Chinese People's Liberation Army).