Niece Zhou Bingde: Zhou Enlai devoted his life to Whampoa Military Academy. In 1924, with the help of the Communist Party of China and the Soviet Union, Sun Yat-sen founded the Huangpu Military Academy, the Chinese Kuomintang Army Officer School.
Chiang Kai-shek was the principal and Liao Zhongkai as the party representative. Zhou En lai was invited by Zhang Shenfu to end his four-year stay in Europe and serve as the third director of the political department.