August 1st marks the anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, also known as 'Army Day'. This date commemorates the armed uprising led by Zhou Enlai and other leaders, including He Long, Ye Ting, Zhu De, and Liu Bocheng, with 20,000 troops in Nanchang, Jiangxi, on August 1, 1927. This event signified the beginning of the Chinese Communist Party's armed resistance against the Kuomintang. In April 1928, Zhu De and Chen Yi united the surviving forces of the Nanchang Uprising with Mao Zedong's Autumn Harvest Uprising troops at Jinggangshan, officially forming the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. On June 30, 1933, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission declared August 1st as the anniversary of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, a decision later approved by the temporary central government of the Chinese Soviet Republic on July 11 of the same year. Since then, 'August 1st' has been celebrated as the founding day of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.