Pingjin campaign

Pingjin campaign
	Part of the Chinese Civil War
	; People's Liberation Army enters Beiping
Date	29 November 1948 – 31 January 1949; (2 months and 2 days)
Location	Hebei province, China
Result	Communist victory
Territorial; changes	Surrender of Beiping, Tianjin and vast areas of North China Plain to the Communists
Belligerents
Republic of China Republic of China Army;	Communist Party People's Liberation Army;
Commanders and leaders
Fu Zuoyi ; Chen Changjie (POW); Guo Jingyun †	Lin Biao; Luo Ronghuan; Nie Rongzhen
Strength
600,000[citation needed]	1,000,000[citation needed]
Casualties and losses
~520,000[citation needed] (including non-combat losses)	39,000 (PRC sources)[citation needed]

The Pingjin campaign (simplified Chinese: 平津战役; traditional Chinese: 平津戰役; pinyin: Píngjīn Zhànyì), also known as the Battle of Pingjin and also officially known in Chinese Communist historiography as the Liberation of Beijing and Tianjin^[1] was part of the three major campaigns launched by the People's Liberation Army during the late stage of the Chinese Civil War against the Government of the Republic of China. It began on 29 November 1948 and ended on 31 January 1949, lasting a total of 64 days. This campaign marked the end of Nationalist dominance in the North China Plain. The term Pingjin refers to the cities Beiping (now Beijing) and Tianjin.

^ Brown, Jeremy; Johnson, Matthew D. (13 October 2015). Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674287204.

[1] Brown, Jeremy; Johnson, Matthew D. (13 October 2015). Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674287204.

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