Chen Lishu, 97, then member of the wartime political work team led by a local committee of the Communist Party of China, recalls the founding of the Volunteer Corps of Tiantai in Tiantai County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 12, 2015. In the summer of 1939, Japanese invading troops attacked coastal areas of Zhejiang. In the context of the second cooperation between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) to unite efforts to save the nation, a local CPC committee assisted the government in formulating a plan and mobilized the locals to join the army in a wartime political work team. A volunteer corps of 1,353 soldiers was formed in 40 days to fight against the Japanese invaders. Most of the soldiers gave their lives for the country, making the corps a miniature and outstanding representative of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. (Xinhua/Tan Jin)
