1July 7, 937, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out. On August 25, the main force of the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, referred to as the Eighth Route Army. September 1 1, renamed the 18th Army of the National Revolutionary Army. The Red Army guerrillas, who were active in 14 districts of Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, were assembled and reorganized into the New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army on June 2, 10.
1945, Zhu De, deputy commander-in-chief of the Second World War Zone of the Allied China Theater and commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, approved seven anti-Japanese counterattack orders, and put forward the word "People's Liberation Army" for the first time in the fourth order. After the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China, the troops of the liberated areas in Guanzhong area entered the Northeast in large numbers under the leadership of * * * 1945. On June 3 1 day, the Northeast People's Autonomous Army was formed with the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Forces. On June 1946, the Northeast People's Autonomous Army was renamed the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army.
1946, when the war of liberation broke out, the troops in the liberated areas were successively renamed the People's Liberation Army by the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces and formed into five field armies. After several years of war of liberation, it overthrew the rule of the National Government, and then moved to Tibet to unify Chinese mainland.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the People's Liberation Army took on the task of defending national defense and participating in the socialist revolution and construction. At the same time, it will be revolutionized, modernized and regularized, and developed into an army composed of land, sea and air forces and missile forces.