On June 16, 1984, the Whampoa Military Academy Alumni Association was founded with the approval of the Communist Party’s Central Committee. It is an association of the academy’s graduates. Its aims are “to carry forward the Whampoa spirit, to link the feelings of the classmates, to promote the reunification of the motherland and to work for the revival of China.”
In 2024, the year of the academy’s centenary and the association’s fortieth anniversary, Xi Jinping sent the association a letter of congratulations. He called the academy a product of the first cooperation between the Nationalists and the Communists. He described the association as a patriotic group that links Whampoa graduates and their relatives at home and abroad.