The First Encirclement Campaign is an abbreviated name used for several different encirclement campaigns launched by the Nationalist Government with the goal of destroying the developing Chinese Red Army and its communist bases in several separate locations in China during the early stage of Chinese Civil War between the late 1920s to mid 1930s, and these are:

• First Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet
  First Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet
  The First Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet was a series of battles launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government intended to annihilate the Chinese Red Army, and destroy the Chinese Soviet Republic...
  
  , November 1930 to January 3, 1931
• First Encirclement Campaign against Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet
  First Encirclement Campaign against Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet
  The First Encirclement Campaign against Hubei – Henan – Anhui Soviet was an encirclement campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy communist Hubei – Henan – Anhui Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region...
  
  , November 1930 to March 9, 1931
• First Encirclement Campaign against Honghu Soviet
  First Encirclement Campaign against Honghu Soviet
  The First Encirclement Campaign against Honghu Soviet was an encirclement campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy communist Honghu Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region...
  
  , early December 1930 to the end of January 1931
• First Encirclement Campaign against Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Soviet
  First Encirclement Campaign against Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Soviet
  The First Encirclement Campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Soviet was a campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government intended to destroy Communist Party of China's Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Soviet and its local Red Army. It was met by the Communists' First Counter-Encirclement Campaign...
  
  , January to February 5, 1935
• First Encirclement Campaign against Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet
  First Encirclement Campaign against Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet
  The First Encirclement Campaign against Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet was an encirclement campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy communist Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region...
  
  , March 1934 to August 26, 1934