Pen used by Wang Zuoyao during the War of Resistance Against Japan

On October 13, 1938, the CCP Central Committee telegraphed the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the Hong Kong Office of the Eighth Route Army, indicating that “a guerrilla area should be opened up behind the Japanese occupied areas in Dongjiang.” Afterwards, Liao Chengzhi, Head of the Hong Kong Office of the Eighth Route Army convened a meeting in Hong Kong and decided that Zeng Sheng, Zhou Boming, and Xie Hechou would lead a group of Party members and some activists to Pingshan, Huiyang County (which today belongs to Shenzhen city) to establish the Huibao (Yang’an) Working Committee of the CCP and to form a people's anti-Japanese force. On October 15, 1938, the Central County Committee of the CCP in Dongguan organized a model able-bodied force of approximately 100 people lead by Wang Zuoyao to resist Japanese invasion