Li Zhaolin

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Li Zhaolin

Li Zhaolin 李兆麟 (1910-1946), known earlier as Li Chaolan 李超兰, was the founder and leader of the 3rd Route Army, a division of the

Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War
.

Li was born in

Mukden Incident, he joined the Anti-Japanese National Salvation movement in Beijing. He later returned to organize his hometown volunteers against Japan. In May 1932 Li joined the Youth League and in the fall of 1932 he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and was engaged in to the Benxi coal mine labor movement.[citation needed
]

In December 1932 with the Japanese defeating the

Nehe, Keshan, Zhaoyuan and other counties.[citation needed
]

Statue of Li Zhaolin, Harbin

By the end of 1940, the resistance forces were in an extremely difficulty situation and had suffered serious setbacks. By November 1941 Li was forced to withdraw into the

Binjiang province, chairman of Sino-Soviet Friendship Association. On 9 March 1946 Li was killed in Harbin by Kuomintang agents. To commemorate him, Harbin changed the name the Lam Kam Road Park to Zhaolin Park. He has a large memorial tomb, depicted on the stamps issued by the North East People's Post on 9 March 1948 to commemorated the second anniversary of his death.[citation needed
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