On the 95th anniversary of the #PLA founding today, we salute the #PLA soldiers for their firm will, full confidence & sufficient capability to safeguard China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The PLA, originally called the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army, was founded in 1927 when Communist soldiers seized the southern Jiangxi provincial town of Nanchang.PLA grade and rank system history

Ranks have only been consistently used in the PLA’s for less than 30 years. As shown in Table 1, from August 1927 to 1937, the Red Army did not have a rank system for its officers (cadre). [2] Although portions of the Red Army (Fourth and Eighth Route Armies) had a rank system from 1937 to 1946, it was based on the Nationalist Party (KMT) system and was not consistent throughout the force. No formal rank system was used from 1946 to 1948, when the PLA was created, nor did it ever have a rank system for its enlisted force

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The Chinese military could be ready to go toe-to-toe with the US in the Indo-Pacific by 2035, report warns.

• The Chinese military may be unstoppable in the Indo-Pacific region by 2035, a new report to Congress suggests.
• "As military modernisation progresses and Beijing’s confidence in the People’s Liberation Army increases, the danger will grow that [US] deterrence will fail and China will use force as a regional hegemon," the report from the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission warns.
• A red flag for things to come appeared in September, when a Chinese warship nearly collided with a US Navy destroyer during a tense situation in the South China Sea.

Understanding the People’s Liberation Army of China.Nighty-five years ago, in 1927, the forerunner to the PLA was founded by the Communist Party of China (CPC), amid a reign of “white terror” unleashed by the Kuomintang, in which thousands of communists and their sympathizers were killed.

Originally called the “Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army,” it has played a key role in charting the country’s development.

In September 1931, Japan invaded northeastern China and on July 7, 1937, it launched a full-scale invasion.

From October 1934 to October 1936, the Red Army trekked 12,500 km across the country, breaking the siege of the Kuomintang forces, and continued to fight the Japanese aggressors.

During the anti-Japanese war, under the command of the Party, the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and other anti-Japanese armed forces penetrated deep behind enemy lines to mobilize the masses, working men and women in particular, to launch guerrilla warfare.

China’s resistance against Japanese aggression was one of the most heroic chapters of the World Anti-Fascist War.

During China’s War of Liberation, from 1945 to 1949, few people anticipated that the PLA, with their “xiaomi jia buqiang” – “millet and rifle” – would finally defeat the far superior U.S.-equipped Kuomintang troops within a few years.

The sweeping victory led to the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in October 1949, marked by the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong’s famous speech from the rostrums of Tiananmen – “the Chinese people have stood up.”

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