PLA_Day
PLA Day
Chinese military holiday
PLA Day (Chinese: 中国人民解放军建军纪念日), also known as Army Day, is a professional military holiday celebrated annually by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the armed forces of the People's Republic of China, on 1 August. It commemorates the founding of the PLA during the 1927 Nanchang Uprising.[1] Six years later, on 30 June 1933, the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s Central Committee for Military Revolutionary Cases voted to declare 1 August an annual holiday, being solidified later on 11 July by the government of the Chinese Soviet Republic.[1]