Yangtze River Crossing campaign

Yangtze River Crossing campaign
Part of the Chinese Civil War
The People's Liberation Army on top of the Presidential Palace after the fall of Nanjing in April 1949
Date 20 April – 2 June 1949 Location South of the Yangtze, China Result Chinese Communist Party victory Territorial changes Nanjing, Shanghai, and other areas along the Yangtze fall to Communist forces
Belligerents
Republic of China Republic of China Army	Chinese Communist Party People's Liberation Army
Commanders and leaders
Tang Enbo Bai Chongxi	Liu Bocheng Deng Xiaoping Chen Yi
Strength
700,000	1,000,000
Casualties and losses
430,000	60,000

The Yangtze River Crossing campaign (Chinese: 渡江战役) was a military campaign launched by the People's Liberation Army to cross the Yangtze River and capture Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist government of the Kuomintang, in the final stage of the Chinese Civil War. The campaign began at night on 20 April, and lasted until 2 June 1949, concluding after the fall of Nanjing and Shanghai to the Communist forces, which eventually resulted in the exile of the Nationalists to the island of Taiwan.