[citation needed] He took part in the Nanchang Uprising the same year, designated as the platoon leader and the substituted company commander.

He took part in opening up the Soviet area centered on Honghu and for many times joined the counter-campaigns against "encirclement and suppression".

In the Soviet union in 1932, he successively attended the International Leninism College and Oriental Laborer Communist University to study.

Then he led his army by setting off to the west, conquered the main enemy positions in Nanshan and seized the Yellow River Bridge.

[citation needed] In April 1950, Xu Guangda was appointed as the commander and political commissar of the Chinese People's Liberation Army armored units.

In September 1950, Xu began to serve as president of the Chinese People's Liberation Army fighting vehicles school at the same time.

After returning to China, he organized the tanks of Chinese People's Volunteers Force, which entered into combat afterwards.

[5] The chief of the propaganda department of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Lu Jianping expressed great respect to Xu Guangda and kind greetings to their relatives.

Lu Jianping also called on the people to take Xu Guangda as an example and to learn from his noble character, and promote his revolutionary spirit.