Baoding Military Academy (traditional Chinese: 保定軍校; simplified Chinese: 保定军校; pinyin: Bǎodìng jūnxiào; Wade–Giles: Pao-ting chün-hsiao) was a military academy based in Baoding, China, in the first two decades of the 20th century. For a time, it was the most important military academy in China, and its cadets played prominent roles in the political and military history of the Republic of China. The Baoding Military Academy closed in 1923, but served as a model for the Whampoa Military Academy, which was founded in Guangzhou in 1924. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, half of 300 divisions in China's armed forces were commanded by Whampoa graduates and one-third were Baoding cadets.
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