On this day, 88 years ago, on August 25, 1937 (July 20, 1937, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China changed the Red Army into the Eighth Route Army. After the main force of the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, it vowed to fight against Japan. On August 25, 1937, the Communist Party of China issued the "Ten Programs for Resisting Japan and Saving the Country": 1. Overthrow Japanese imperialism: expel Japanese imperialism from China. 2. General mobilization of the national military: mobilize the national land, sea and air force to carry out the national war of resistance. 3. General mobilization of the people of the whole country: The people of all China mobilized, armed, participated in the War of Resistance, and made strong contributions. If you have money, you will pay, if you have guns, and if you have knowledge, you will learn. 4. Reform political institutions: convene a National Assembly of true people's representatives, adopt a true democratic constitution, decide on the policy of resisting Japan and saving the country, and elect a national defense government. 5. Foreign policy for resisting Japan: Within the scope of not losing territorial sovereignty, enter into anti-aggression alliances and anti-Japanese military mutual assistance agreements with all countries that oppose Japanese aggression. 6. Fiscal and economic policies in wartime: Fiscal policy is based on the principle of having money to pay and confiscating traitors 'property to fund the war against Japan. The economic policies are: to rectify and expand national defense production, develop the rural economy, and ensure self-sufficiency in wartime raw products; to promote domestic products and improve local products; Ban Japanese goods, ban profiteers, and oppose speculation and manipulation. 7. Improve people's lives: Improve the treatment of workers, staff, teachers and anti-Japanese soldiers, give preferential treatment to the families of anti-Japanese soldiers, abolish exorbitant taxes, reduce rent and interest, relieve unemployment, regulate food, and relieve famine. 8. Anti-Japanese educational policy: Change the old education system and old curriculum, and implement new systems and new courses with the goal of resisting Japan and saving the country. 9. Eliminate traitors, traitors, and pro-Japanese factions and consolidate the rear. 10. National unity against Japan: On the basis of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, establish an anti-Japanese national united front of all parties, factions, all walks of life, and all armies across the country to lead the Anti-Japanese War, unite sincerely, and jointly overcome the national crisis. On the same day, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued an order to change the Red Army into the Eighth Route Army: "Nanjing has begun the War of Resistance against Japan, and the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party has initially been successful. In order to realize the guarantee given by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to change the name of the Red Army at the Third Plenary Session of the Kuomintang Central Committee and promote this war of resistance into an anti-Japanese revolutionary war for the whole nation, we announced that the Red Army would be renamed the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and the former General Command Headquarters would be renamed the Eighth Route General Command Headquarters, with Zhu De as the commander-in-chief, Peng Dehuai as the deputy commander-in-chief, Ye Jianying as the chief of staff, Zuo Quan as the deputy chief of staff, the General Political Department would be renamed the Eighth Route Political Department, with Ren Bishi as the director and Deng Xiaoping as the deputy director. The 1st Corps, 15th Corps and 74th Division were jointly organized into the 115th Division of the Army, with Lin Biao as the division commander and Nie Rongzhen as the deputy division commander; The 27th and 28th Armies of the Second Front Army, the 1st and 2nd Independent Divisions, the Chishui Guard Battalion, and one of the former General Corps were jointly organized into the 120th Commanders of the Army, with He Long as the division commander and Xiao Ke as the deputy division commander; The 29th and 30th Armies of the Fourth Front Army, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Independent Regiments of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Army, were reorganized into the 129th Division of the Army, with Liu Bocheng as the division commander and Xu Xiangqian as the deputy division commander. After the above departments were reorganized, the personnel were appointed in accordance with the previous general order. After the divisions are reorganized into the National Revolutionary Army, they must strengthen the party's leadership, maintain and give full play to the glorious tradition of ten years of struggle, resolutely implement the orders of the Party Central Committee and the Military Commission, and ensure that the Red Army will become an army led by the Communist Party after reorganized and serve the party's line and policy."