For PRC historians, the Xi'an Incident was a turning point in the CPC's fortunes, so both the incident itself and its instigators, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, are held in high esteem.
在大陸方面，西安事變是中共命運的轉捩點，因此不論對於事變本身，或對於事變發動者的張學良、楊虎城，都有著相當高的評價。