抗日战争时期形成的第三方面是国共之外的中间势力,主要力量是以张澜为主席的中国民主同盟,还有一批无党派知识分子,社会贤达。第三方面人士人数不多,但社会联系广泛。抗日战争胜利后,国共双方面都在争取这支力量。周恩来以他高超的统战艺术,在第三方面调解国共争端中,团结、争取、教育了第三方面,使其中绝大多数人成为与中共风雨同舟的亲密战友。 The third area formed during the War of Resistance Against Japan was the middle power outside the Kuomintang and Communist Party. The main force was the China Democratic League under the leadership of Zhang Lan, as well as a group of non-partisan intellectuals and social leaders. There are not many third-party people, but there are many social connections. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the KMT and the KMT both sides are fighting for this force. In his superb art of united front work, Zhou Enlai, in the third phase, mediates the dispute between the KMT and the CPC, unites, scrambles and educates the third party so that the overwhelming majority of them will become close comrades-in-arms with the Chinese communists.