The Military Anthem of the Eighth Route Army ( zh, s=八路军军歌, t=八路軍軍歌, p=Bālùjūn Jūngē) is a patriotic song of the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, since

Eighth Route Army The Eighth Route Army (), officially known as the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, was a group army under the command of the Chinese Communist Party, nominally within the structure of the Chinese ...

is a special army in

National Revolutionary Army The National Revolutionary Army (NRA; ), sometimes shortened to Revolutionary Army () before 1928, and as National Army () after 1928, was the military arm of the Kuomintang (KMT, or the Chinese Nationalist Party) from 1925 until 1947 in China ...

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...

, it also can be considered as a patriotic song of

. This song is one of the six songs in Chorus of Eighth Route Army(, ,), all songs are written by

Gong Mu A gongFrom Indonesian language, Indonesian and ms, gong; jv, ꦒꦺꦴꦁ ; zh, c=鑼, p=luó; ja, , dora; km, គង ; th, ฆ้อง ; vi, cồng chiêng; as, কাঁহ is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and S ...

, musiced by

Zheng Lücheng Zheng Lücheng (; , 27 August 1914 – 7 December 1976) was a Korea-born Chinese composer of Korean ethnicity. He is most notable for having composed the music to the Military Anthem of the People's Liberation Army, to words by Gong Mu (公� ...

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1963 music video of the song with Chinese/English subtitlesA modern rendition of the military anthemOrchestral and Choral MP3 Audio from PLA Daily
Mandarin-language songs Chinese patriotic songs Chinese military marches Songs about the military Maoist China propaganda songs Asian anthems {{anthem-stub