Undated file photo shows Qi Defu, then secretary of the Tiantai County Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) who helped formulate the draft plan for the Volunteer Corps of Tiantai. 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)
