1936年12月12日,张学良、杨虎城在全国抗日运动高潮的推动下,统率东北军和十七路军联合采取行动,软禁了蒋介石和国民党军政大员几十人,发动了震惊中外的西安事变。中共中央从民族利益和抗日的大局出发,提出和平解决西安事变的方针。 On December 12, 1936, under the impetus of the national anti-Japanese movement, Chang Hsueh-liang and Yang Hu-cheng led the joint efforts of the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army to house and stash Chiang Kai-shek and dozens of Kuomintang military and government officials and to launch the Xi’an Incident, which shocked both China and other countries . The CPC Central Committee put forward the principle of peacefully resolving the Xi’an Incident from the perspective of national interests and anti-Japanese aggression.