Background of the establishment of Huangpu Military Academy

Main figures: Ma Lin (proposed the proposal to establish a military academy) Sun Yat-sen (accepted the proposal and established a military academy, prime minister of the school) Chiang Kai-shek (principal) Zhou Enlai, Xiong Xiong (director of the political department)

Purpose of the military academy (Create a revolutionary army to save China from danger)

The school motto (Dear and Sincere) is still fresh in the students’ memory: the school motto (Dear Sincerity) Couplet (Nourish the righteousness of the world and perfect the ancient and modern people)

Sun Yat-sen wanted to establish A school to train revolutionary military cadres has been desired for a long time. By summarizing the lessons of the failures since the Revolution of 1911, he deeply felt that it was impossible to achieve victory in the Chinese revolution by relying on the armed forces of warlords; at the same time, he was greatly inspired by Lenin's experience in leading the revolutionary army to victory in the October Revolution.

In December 1921 (the 10th year of the Republic of China), Ma Lin, the representative of the Communist International, met with Sun Yat-sen in Guilin, Guangxi. Ma Lin proposed to Sun Yat-sen the suggestion of "establishing an officer's school and establishing a revolutionary army." Sun Yat-sen readily accepted this suggestion.

After referring to the Soviet model, the military academy took Sun Yat-sen’s proposition of “creating a revolutionary army to save China from peril” as its purpose, and adopted an educational policy of equal emphasis on military and political affairs, and a combination of theory and practice, to serve the country. *The two parties cultivate military and political talents. For this reason, both the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang parties attach great importance to the school and select important cadres to serve at the school: Sun Yat-sen personally serves as the premier of the school, Chiang Kai-shek serves as the president, Liao Zhongkai serves as the representative of the Kuomintang, and the Chinese Communists Zhou Enlai and Xiong Xiong He successively served as director of the political department of the military academy. More than 60 years later, the students at that time still have fresh memories of that day: the school motto hung high in the center of the platform during the review: "Dear and Sincere", paired with the couplets on both sides: "Nourish the righteousness of heaven and earth, and perfect the ancient and modern people." It was Sun Yat-sen who tried to pass the Huangpu Division Born as a bond to unite the two parties, a portrayal of the same revolution.