Communist-controlled China (Chinese: 中國共產黨革命根據地; pinyin: Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Gémìng Gēnjùdì), officially called the Soviet Zone (Chinese: 蘇區; pinyin: Sūqū) from 1927 to 1937, and the Liberated Zone (Chinese: 解放區; pinyin: Jiěfàngqū) from 1946 to 1949, was the part of the territories of China controlled by the Communist Party of China from 1927 to 1949 during the Republican era and the Chinese Civil War with Nationalist China. There were six soviet areas from 1927 to 1933: the Ching-kang-shan, the Central Soviet in Eastern Jiangxi on the border of Fujian, the O-Yu-Wan (Hubei-Henan-Anhui) Soviet, Hsiang-o-hsi (West Hupei and Hunan), and Hsiang-kan (Hunan-Kiangsi). The first soviet was the Hailufeng Soviet created in 1927.