The Red Army, the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and the People's Liberation Army are the evolution of our Party's military designation. On August 1, 1927, the Nanchang Uprising broke out, and our party had its first armed force. Since this force was mainly composed of workers and peasants (including some Kuomintang leftists), our party leaders called this force the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. May 1928