The T-26 tanks were exported by the USSR to China in the late 1930s, where they saw service in the 200th Mechanized Division of the National Revolutionary Army of Kuomintang (China). During the 1946–50 civil war, a number of vehicles were captured by the People's Liberation Army in eastern China in 1949. In 1950, they were used as a basis for the creation of at least two modifications of tank destroyers.