1927 During the Autumn Harvest Uprising on September 9th, the uprising troops were officially named as "Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants" in the famous "Three Bay Adaptation".
1937, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out in an all-round way. The Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Army and the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, referred to as the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army for short.
1945, the war of liberation has begun. * * * The army was renamed "China People's Liberation Army".