On February 11, 1937, Zhou Enlai, a representative of the Communist Party of China, and Zhang Chong and Gu Zhutong, representatives of the Kuomintang, began negotiations in Xi'an on the specific issue of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and no important progress was made. On March 12, zhou Enlai, a representative of the Communist Party of China, demanded direct negotiations with Chiang Kai-shek, and the Xi'an negotiations ended.
After the Xi'an talks, the kuomintang and the communist parties held five more talks in Hangzhou, Lushan, and Nanjing. After more than 7 months of repeated negotiations, the Kuomintang finally agreed to reorganize the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army.
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