周恩来虽未直接担任新四军领导职务,但对新四军的创建、发展、壮大作出了突出贡献。参与组建新四军1936年12月西安事变的和平解决,成为时局转换的枢纽。从1937年2月开始,周恩来先后与蒋介石、顾祝同进行了5次谈判,终于实现了第二次国共合作,将陕北红军改编为国民革命军第八路军。继而周恩来又向国民党提出了统一整编南方各地红军游击队为 Although Zhou Enlai did not directly assume the leadership position of the New Fourth Army, it made outstanding contributions to the founding, development and expansion of the New Fourth Army. Participating in the formation of the New Fourth Army in December 1936, the peaceful resolution of the Xi’an Incident, became the hub of the current situation. From February 1937 onwards, Zhou Enlai successively held five negotiations with Chiang Kai-shek and Gu Zhu-tong and finally achieved the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to reorganize the northern Shaanxi Red Army into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army. Then Zhou Enlai again proposed to the Kuomintang to reorganize and integrate the Red Army guerrillas throughout the South