When New China was proclaimed, the whole Northeast, North China, East China, Northwest China and parts of Central South China were liberated, and most of the regular Kuomintang troops were annihilated. However, the whole southwest and most parts of south-central China, parts of northwest and east China and coastal islands are still occupied by Kuomintang troops.

At the founding ceremony, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De read out the order of the China People's Liberation Army Headquarters, demanding that the People's Liberation Army "resolutely carry out all orders of the Central People's Government and the great people's leader Chairman Mao, quickly eliminate the remnants of the reactionary Kuomintang army, liberate all the land that has not yet been liberated, and at the same time eliminate bandits and all counter-revolutionary gangsters and suppress all their rebellion and sabotage."

In accordance with the unified deployment of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission to March across the country, various field armies of the People's Liberation Army have successively carried out military operations such as the Zhang Xia Campaign, the Zhoushan Islands Liberation Campaign, the Hengbao Campaign, the Guangdong-Guangxi Campaign, the Hainan Island Liberation Campaign, the Southwest Liberation Campaign and the Northwest Liberation Campaign. By May 1950, all the land except Tibet, Taiwan Province Province and a few coastal islands was liberated, and the national liberation war basically ended.

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1951On May 23rd, the Central People's Government and the local government of Tibet signed the Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, announcing the peaceful liberation of Tibet. 101On October 26th, PLA troops stationed in Tibet entered Lhasa. The peaceful liberation of Tibet is a great victory of the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s ethnic policy and a pioneering work to realize the reunification of the motherland by peaceful means.

At the same time, since the second half of 1949, with the support of local armed forces and the masses, our army has launched a large-scale struggle against bandits in areas with serious bandits such as East China, South China, Southwest China, Northwest China and North China. 1953 basically completed the task of suppressing bandits at the end of the year, and shattered the attempt of the Kuomintang authorities to establish a "guerrilla base area" on the mainland to cooperate with the "counterattack against the mainland."

While successfully fulfilling the task of liberating the whole continent, the People's Liberation Army also imposed military control on newly liberated cities, thus ensuring the construction of urban political power and the stability of social order. Participated in the land reform movement in the newly liberated areas and played an important role in the construction of grass-roots political power; Military preparations were made for the liberation of Taiwan Province Province, which effectively dealt a blow to the harassment activities of the Kuomintang troops in Taiwan Province Province on the mainland coastal areas.

The People's Liberation Army successfully completed the functional transformation from seizing the national political power to defending the people's political power, consolidated the new people's political power and ensured the smooth development of various construction undertakings.

Ministry of national defense-liberating the whole continent and consolidating the new regime.