From Passive Defense to Active Offense:Coastal Defense of Eastern Zhejiang Front in Early 1950s
The Communist Party of China's coastal defense strategy between 1949 and 1955 changed gradually from passive defense at the initial stage to active offense at the later stage,in response to the harassing activities and counterespi-onage of the Kuomintang forces along the coast of eastern Zhejiang.A passive defense strategy was adopted in the initial coastal defense struggle,mainly because of PLA's lack of sea and air combat strength at the time.Furthermore,the local mobilization of coastal defense was just getting started,and there were still difficulties in cooperation between different de-partments.The change in the strategy of the CPC coastal defense struggle occurred from mid-1953 to early 1954 since the new international situation with the closing of the Korean War led to the escalation of the KMT-CPC confrontation along the coast of eastern Zhejiang.The Central Military Commission formulated a new coastal defense strategy of"Military Strength Forward Extending",and at the same time,sent more sea and air forces to the eastern Zhejiang front line,aiming to com-pletely end the confrontation with active military strikes and political offensives.The active coastal offense strategy produced remarkable results.The KMT armed forces reluctantly withdrew from the islands in eastern Zhejiang which they had occu-pied for years.
the Eastern Zhejiang Frontthe CPC-KMT confrontationcoastal defense struggleZhoushan IslandsDachen Island
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