On the new journey, the great cause of strengthening the army is cast - the New Year's Day message

The river is long, and the heavens and the earth are always new. The century-old struggle inscribes the glory of history and takes advantage of the momentum to start a new journey. Today, we usher in a promising 2022.

2021 is a landmark year in the history of the party and the country. In this year, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core united and led the whole party, the whole army, and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to solemnly celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, carry out party history study and education, win the battle against poverty as scheduled, build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way as scheduled, achieve the first centenary goal, and start a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and marching toward the second centenary goal. This year, the world's unprecedented major changes in a century and the global pandemic of the new crown pneumonia epidemic intertwined impact, the domestic epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development tasks are extremely arduous and arduous, the whole party and the whole country worked hard with one heart and one mind, worked hard, fully implemented the new development concept, built a new development pattern to take new steps, high-quality development achieved new results, China's economic development and epidemic prevention and control maintained a global leading position, the party and the country made new major achievements in various undertakings, and the "14th Five-Year Plan" achieved a good start. This year, our party successfully convened the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Party and formulated the third historical resolution of the Party, which is a political declaration of chinese communists in the new era to keep firmly in mind their original mission and uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, and is an action guide for taking history as a mirror, creating the future, and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The party's establishment of Comrade Xi Jinping's position as the core of the Party Central Committee and the core of the whole Party, and the establishment of the guiding position of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, reflect the common aspirations of the whole Party, the whole army, and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, and are of decisive significance to the development of the cause of the Party and the country in the new era and to the promotion of the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The difficult side shows courage and perseverance, and the grinding begins with Yucheng. The people's army and the cause of the party and the state develop together and make progress together. In the past year, the whole army has adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, focused on achieving the goal of building the army for a hundred years in accordance with the new "three-step" strategic arrangement of national defense and army modernization, and closely focused on the layout planning and promotion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the construction of our army. In the past year, we have carried out in-depth study and education in party history, deepened the education on the theme of "inheriting the red gene and shouldering the heavy responsibility of strengthening the army," organized innovative training in ideological and political education of the whole army, deeply promoted the transformation of military training, accelerated the building of a high-level strategic deterrence and joint operation system, convened a central military commission work conference on personnel, a work conference on logistics work for the whole army, and an all-army equipment work conference, made overall plans to promote various reforms such as military policies and systems, and accelerated the modernization of national defense and the armed forces. In the past year, from guarding border defense and defending territory, to counter-terrorism and stability maintenance, peacekeeping and escort, to participating in emergency rescue and disaster relief, and helping rural revitalization... The people's army obeys the party's command, forges ahead, works tenaciously and selflessly, resolutely fulfills the mission and tasks entrusted by the party and the people in the new era, and effectively safeguards national sovereignty, security, and development interests.

The years since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China have been extremely unusual and extraordinary in the process of the development of the cause of the Party and the country. The complexity and severity of the situation and environment, the heavy and arduous nature of the tasks shouldered by the party are rare in the world and rare in history. With the boldness of a Marxist politician and strategist, President Xi Jinping plans the overall situation at home and abroad, promotes reform, development, stability, domestic and foreign affairs, national defense, and governing the party and the country, and leads the party, the country and the army to achieve historic achievements and historic changes. On the new road of catching up with the examination, we must increase our historical self-confidence, enhance unity and unity, enhance the spirit of struggle, and continue to hand over excellent answer sheets.

The journey is full of wind and momentum, and it has been another year of perseverance. In 2022, our party will convene the twentieth national congress, which is a very important congress held at an important moment when our party enters the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and marching toward the second centenary goal, and is a major event in the political life of the party and the country. In 2022, the people's army will usher in the 95th anniversary of the founding of the army, continue to forge ahead towards the realization of the goal of building the army for a hundred years, and take the first very urgent step of the new "three steps" of national defense and army modernization. To greet the 20th National Congress of the Party and celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the army, the best action is not to forget the original intention, keep in mind the mission, and always struggle, to cast a strong army on the new journey, and to strive for new and greater glory in the new era. The whole army should firmly establish the guiding position of Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, in accordance with the direction guided by President Xi Jinping and the blueprint drawn, enhance the sense of urgency, immerse itself in hard work, firmly grasp the goal of achieving the centenary goal of building the army, run out of the acceleration of the struggle to strengthen the army in the new era, anchor the comprehensive construction of a world-class army to strive to overcome difficulties, and provide strategic support for the realization of the second centenary goal and the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

In the new year and new journey, we must make good preparations for military struggle. The army is to prepare for war, and grasping and preparing for war is the main responsibility of the whole army. It is necessary to firmly grasp the key to a strong army that can fight and win wars, adhere to the combat effectiveness as the only fundamental criterion, persist in leading the construction with war, strengthen the overall planning of war construction, and form a good situation of advancing the war, construction, and preparation as a whole. Thoroughly study the military, study war, and study war fighting, update war thinking and war concepts with the times, deepen war and combat planning, strengthen the construction of new types of combat forces, accelerate the construction of a joint combat command system, enhance joint combat command capabilities, and optimize the pattern and force layout of military struggles. We should vigorously grasp military training in actual combat, deepen actual combat training, joint training in joint operations, strong training in science and technology, and training in accordance with the law, promote the transformation and upgrading of military training, comprehensively improve the level of training and the ability to win wars, and resolutely ensure that they are called upon, can fight when called upon, and will be victorious in battle.

In the new year and new journey, we must accelerate the high-quality development of national defense and army building. To build the people's army into a world-class army in an all-round way, if the development is slow and the quality is not high, we must implement the new development concept and promote the change in the quality, efficiency, and motivation of our army's construction and development. It is necessary to strengthen the authority and execution of planning, do a good job in scientific overall planning, grasp key tasks well, speed up the progress of work, ensure the quality of work, and hold firm to the major construction of supporting the strong army to win the war, and ensure that the work will be accomplished within the time limit, so as to promote new and greater development in the modernization of national defense and the armed forces. We should pay attention to deepening reform to achieve quality and effectiveness, adapt to the development trend of the world military and the needs of the development of our military's strategic capabilities, unremittingly push forward the reform of national defense and the army in depth, and further liberate and develop combat effectiveness, liberate and enhance the vitality of our army. Strengthen innovation-driven, concentrate on key core technology research, accelerate the effective supply of advanced combat strength, achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement with greater intensity and more practical measures, and give full play to the strategic support role of science and technology in the construction of our army.

In the new year and new journey, we must comprehensively strengthen the party's leadership and party building work in our army. The party is the leader of everything, and the party's leadership and party building are the key to the construction and development of our army. It is necessary to unremittingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, to cast the soul and cultivate people, and better unify thinking, will and action. Vigorously carry forward the great spirit of party building, consolidate and expand the achievements of party history study and education, continue to deepen the theme education of "inheriting red genes and shouldering the heavy responsibility of strengthening the army", cultivate revolutionary soldiers in the new era of "four haves", and forge "four iron" excellent troops. Thoroughly implement the strategy of strengthening the military with qualified personnel in the new era, promote the comprehensive transformation and upgrading of military personnel's ability and quality, structural layout, and development and management, and forge high-quality and professional new-type military talents with both political integrity and ability. We should unswervingly administer the party in an all-round and strict manner and the army in an all-round and strict manner, build a systematic and complete system of party building in our army, vigorously grasp the implementation of various systems, deepen political rectification and training, persistently uphold the correct style and eliminate discipline and fight corruption, create a green water and green mountains in politics, ensure the absolute loyalty, absolute purity, and absolute reliability of the troops, and ensure a high degree of centralization, unity, security, and stability of the troops.

"No matter how high the mountain is, if you climb up, you can always reach the top; no matter how long the road is, if you go down, you will be able to reach it." The whole army should unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, thoroughly implement the military strategic principles for the new era, enhance the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", achieve "two safeguards", implement the responsibility system of the chairman of the Central Military Commission, continuously improve political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, unswervingly adhere to the party's absolute leadership over the people's army, and comprehensively promote political army building and reform and strengthening the army Strengthen the army with science and technology, strengthen the army with qualified personnel, and manage the army according to law, comprehensively improve the strategic ability to defend national sovereignty, security, and development interests, make unremitting efforts to achieve the party's goal of strengthening the army in the new era, and build the people's army into a world-class army in an all-round way, and greet the party's twenty-year victory with excellent results.

Source: People's Liberation Army Daily