Yunnan Military Academy

Yunnan Military Academy, Huangpu Military Academy (Whampoa Military Academy) and Baoding Military Academy are called “three major strategist cradles in modern China”.

The academy was founded in 1909 in Kunming city, Yunnan province and stopped working in 1935 because of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It enrolled 22 batches of students during 26 years and totally cultivated more than 9000 trainees.

Many famous militarists graduated from Yunnan Military Academy, including Zhu De, Ye Jianying, Zhou Baozhong, they made hard effort during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Three stages:

First period: 1909-1911, batch 1-3. The school was established by Qing government.

Second period: 1912-1928, batch 4-19. During 1918-1920 a branch campus was established in Shaozhou (now is called Shaoguan city) in Guangdong province.

Third period: 1929-1935, batch 20-22. The Academy got approval from Nanjing KMT Government and continued to working for six years.