The dance drama Railway Guerrilla created and performed by the Song and Dance Ensemble of the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, is adapted from the revolutionary war novel with the same title. The novel has been widely spread among the readers and audiences in new China. It tells a legendary anti-Japanese armed heroism story in the area of Shandong Province during the War of Resistance against Japan. NCPA will embrace its premiere in order to commemorate the 65th victory anniversary of the Chinese people in the War of Resistance against Japan.

As the revolutionary war theme, the Railway Guerrilla has strong spirit of heroism and war scene atmosphere. These factors will be fully revealed and played in the creation, so that the image of the dance drama not only has distinctive characteristics of the military arts, but also has the thrilling special stage effects to achieve high integration of the profound ideological content, strong artistic style and full of recreation and appreciation.

The absorbing original story of Railway Guerrilla is widely known by the readers, and also conforms to the creation requirements of dance drama art: the characters have characteristics and styles of strong classical Chinese legend novel and drama characters with distinct personalities, clear profiles and rich emotions showing heroism of joys and sorrows, and are the rare hero images of a group of characters in dance drama creation. In this creation, the characters with great popularity in the original version will display in front of the audiences directly with more characteristics by dances. It seeks to present a grand and acute, mild and passionate, exciting and funny effect on the stage with magnificent daring and complicated inconstant wisdom.