April 22, 1948 (March 14, Lunar New Year), the People's Liberation Army recovered Yan'an. In In 1948, Xinhua News Agency in northern Shaanxi, People's Liberation Army Guangfu democracy Yan'an, caused great shock of Nanjing counterrevolutionary camp.



, according to the Associated Press, said: the matter: "unsuspecting atmosphere into a (pseudo) NUS delegates read the news of the withdrawal of government (Jiang Fei) Yan'an, startled. Many privately expressed disappointment at the failure of the government (Jiang Fei). UPI exclaimed: "Yan'an to say is a big failure on the morale of the fall of the Kuomintang army. "The social and admitted the Yan'an Jiang Fei defenders fled in panic, because they face death fate has been under strong attack of the People's Liberation Army of the Northwest," KMT sources said: When communist troops occupied fifty miles southeast of Yan'an Yichuan, defeated (by should be read as wiped out) Kuomintang two divisions, the the Yan'an government (Jiang Fei) Army positions has been difficult to defend. . "
The Associated Press also acknowledged the seriousness of the KMT in the overall situation of China Northwest Yan'an abandon draw, and said:" The Communist Party retrocession their base in Shaanxi bigger than in the past. "