On June 16, 1924, with the help of the Communist Party of China and the Soviet Union, Dr. Sun Yat sen, the great revolutionary forerunner of China, founded a new type of army officer school. Although the name of the school has changed many times, it is generally called the Whampoa Military Academy because the school is located on the Whampoa Changzhou Island in the eastern suburbs of Guangzhou. Whampoa Military Academy is the product of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the embodiment of the Chinese nation's resistance to imperialist aggression and feudal oppression by force. For decades, this name has been shaking the hearts of Chinese people. In view of the prominent position of the Whampoa Military Academy in China's military history and its pivotal role in promoting the development of China's modern history, many people compare it with the West Point Military Academy of the United States, the Sandhurst Royal Military Academy of the United Kingdom and the Vorontz Military Academy of Russia, and call it one of the four famous military academies in the world.
The students trained by Whampoa Military Academy, through the long-term training of the Northern Expedition, the Second Civil Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance against Japan, and the National Liberation War, have grown many senior generals on both sides of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and become the backbone of the military led by both parties.
Many teachers and students in Whampoa have become the pillars of the Kuomintang and Communist Party governments, which have a deep impact on the development of China's political situation.
China's civil war can be called the battle of Huangpu people. During the Great Revolution, Huangpu people fought side by side, participated in the war of pacifying the Shangtuan Army, the two Eastern Expeditions, the elimination of Yang and Liu armies, the Northern Expedition and other wars, and all of them were recorded in history with complete victory records. During the Anti Japanese War, Huangpu students commanded the armies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to fight together with the Japanese invaders, and won the victory of the Pingxingguan War, the Taierzhuang War, the anti "mopping up" war, the strategic counter offensive in the winter of 1939, the expeditionary army's entry into Myanmar, the Changsha Campaign, and the 1945 counteroffensive, and finally defeated the Japanese invaders. In the Second Civil Revolutionary War and the National War of Liberation, the Huangpu people of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party fought on the battlefield on behalf of their respective parties. After several major battles, the Communist Party of China defeated the Kuomintang and established the People's Republic of China. In this sense, the Whampoa Military Academy and its trained generals have promoted the development of Chinese history.