Miao Hua, member of the Central Military Commission and director of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission: Strive to push forward the cause of strengthening the military in the new era

Source: Learning Times Author: Miao Hua

The truth illuminates the journey of a strong army, and the struggle casts brilliant achievements. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has led our army to reorganize, work hard, reform and innovate in the process of leading the cause of promoting socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and has achieved a series of major theoretical, practical and institutional achievements. The "Resolution of the CPC Central Committee on the Major Achievements and Historical Experiences of the Party's Century-Long Struggle" adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China comprehensively sums up the extraordinary achievements made in national defense and army building in the section "Opening a New Era of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", vividly reflecting the magnificent practice of officers and men of the whole army in loyally safeguarding the core and striving to strengthen the army. In the historical process of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and realizing the goal of the second centenary struggle, we must deepen the summing up, study, and propaganda of the achievements in national defense and army building in the new era, gather the will to strengthen the army and stimulate the spirit of strengthening the army at a new height, unswervingly advance courageously in the direction guided by the party, and constantly open up a new situation in the strong military industry in the new era.

Founded Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, opening up a new realm for the development of contemporary Chinese Marxist military theory and military practice

In the long-term practice of leading and building the people's army, our party has always adhered to advancing with the times and innovating military guidance theories and led our army to continuously develop and grow. In the new era, President Xi Jinping has focused on realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, insisted on combining the basic principles of Marxism with contemporary Chinese military practice and with China's excellent military traditional culture, conducted in-depth theoretical exploration and practical creation, founded Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, and achieved a new leap in the sinification of Marxist military theory. As an important part of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, this ideology condenses the fundamental experience of all the practice of national defense and army building since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Party, is the fundamental achievement of all the creations of our party in building the army and governing the army in the new era, and is a scientific guide and program of action for comprehensively promoting the cause of strengthening the military in the new era.

Science answers major issues of the times. In the new era, profound and complex changes have continued to take place in the world conditions, national conditions, and military conditions, and the strengthening of the army and the rejuvenation of the army are facing a series of major problems. Judging from the external environment, the world's unprecedented major changes in a century have accelerated their evolution, international strategic competition, especially the game of major powers, has become increasingly fierce, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and military revolution has accelerated its development, the surrounding security situation is complex and changeable, and the need for the armed forces to safeguard national security is even more urgent. Judging from the development of the mainland, the mainland is in a critical stage of development from large to strong, the process of comprehensively building a modern socialist country is accelerating, high-quality development has become the main theme of economic and social development, and higher requirements have been put forward for comprehensively improving the quality and efficiency of national defense and army modernization. From the perspective of the army itself, some deep-seated contradictions and problems accumulated by our army over a long period of time have become increasingly prominent, and many practical tests have been put forward for whether we can always uphold the party's absolute leadership, be able to fight and win wars, and maintain our army's glorious traditions and fine work style. The wind and thunder of the times call for the innovation and creation of theory. President Xi Jinping coordinated the "two overall situations", grasped the historical initiative, and made a series of new major judgments, new theoretical summaries, and new strategic arrangements around the major issue of the times of what kind of strong people's army to build in the new era and how to build a strong people's army, responding to the new requirements put forward by the development of the times and the evolution of the form of war on army building. Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army runs through the unremitting pursuit of building a strong people's army, contains the far-reaching consideration of supporting a strong country with a strong army, and with the courage to lead the trend of the times and walk in the forefront of the times, the strong military industry has been elevated to a new position.

Innovate and build a military theoretical system. An important symbol of the new leap in scientific theory is the formation of theoretical "whole steel" with system innovation. Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army uses Marxist positions and viewpoints to put forward a series of new ideas, new ideas and new strategies with symbolic leadership, covering all aspects of army building, reform and preparation for military struggle, penetrating the whole process of military force construction and application, and forming a scientific military theory system with complete system, strict logic and mutual penetration. Draw up a blueprint for a strong army, put forward the party's goal of strengthening the army in the new era, and build a people's army that obeys the party's command, can win battles, and has a fine work style, and builds the people's army into a world-class army; The new "three-step" strategy for national defense and army modernization, which aims to achieve the goal of building the army for one hundred years by 2027, basically realize the modernization of national defense and the armed forces by 2035, and comprehensively build a world-class army by the middle of this century, clearly outlines the goal map and road map for strengthening the army and rejuvenating the army. Establish a strong army layout, emphasize comprehensively promoting political army building, reform and strengthening the army, strengthening the army with science and technology, strengthening the army with qualified personnel, and managing the army according to law, comprehensively strengthening military training and combat readiness, and profoundly expounding the political guarantee, the only way to strengthen the army, the powerful engine, the fundamental plan, the guarantee of the rule of law, and the core tasks. Pointing out the path to strengthening the army requires accelerating the modernization of military theory, military organization, military personnel, weapons and equipment, accelerating the integrated development of mechanization, informatization, and intelligence, building an integrated national strategic system and capabilities, and leading the road to strengthening the army with Chinese characteristics to become broader and broader.

Profoundly reveal the law of building and governing the army. The understanding of the law is deeply calibrated to the height of theoretical innovation. Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army adheres to the combination of theory and practice, the unity of epistemology and methodology, and is full of the power of logic and the power of thinking, which is the way to win the war in the new era. This thinking, under the general goal of national defense and army building in the context of national rejuvenation, understands and advances it; on the basis of our party's basic strategy for governing the country and administering the government, it has highly strengthened the party's remarkable superiority in commanding the gun; it has promoted the revolutionization, modernization, and regularization of the armed forces in accordance with the idea of comprehensive construction; it has focused on development and security and taken into account the overall planning of economic construction and national defense construction; and it has deepened its understanding of the laws governing national defense and army building. This thinking has grasped the new requirements put forward by the great struggle in the new era on military struggle, set up the principle of guiding the struggle, preparing for war, and building while focusing on the changes in the security situation, pointed out the focus of military training transformation and upgrading with an eye on changing the mode of generating combat strength, and put forward the strategic tactics for coordinating the preparations for military struggle in all directions and fields with an eye on coping with various complicated and difficult situations, thus deepening the understanding of the law of preparation for military struggle. Based on the basic points of our party's military strategic thinking, this thinking grasps the trend of accelerating the evolution of the form of war, reveals the mechanism of winning modern wars, innovates the people's war strategy and tactics, expounds the major relations between war and peace, military and politics, deterrence and actual combat, and man and weapons, answers and solves the major questions of what and how to fight wars in the future, and deepens the understanding of the law governing war guidance. Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army has opened up a new space for the practice of a strong army with a new vision, providing us with a sharp weapon to cope with risks and challenges and win great victories.

Persisting in taking the road of strengthening the army with Chinese characteristics, national defense and army building have made historic achievements and undergone historic changes

In the new era, the cause of strengthening the country and strengthening the military is pioneering and advancing under the guidance of new ideas. In the past ten years, the whole army has firmly established the guiding position of Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, concentrated on strengthening the army to win the war has become the main theme of army building, and scientific truth has been transformed into the vivid practice and magnificent strength of strengthening the army and rejuvenating the army. The people's army has solved many difficult problems that it has wanted to solve for a long time but has not been solved, accomplished many major things that it wanted to do in the past but failed to do, reshaped its political ecology, reshaped its organizational form, reshaped its strength system, and reshaped its work style and image, and taken solid steps on the road of strengthening the army with Chinese characteristics.

Consolidate and strengthen the fundamental superiority of the party's command of guns, and the people's army will repack and set off again. For a period of time, the problem of the weakening of the party's leadership in the people's army was conspicuous, and if it was not thoroughly resolved, it would not only affect its combat effectiveness, but also have a bearing on the major political principle of the party commanding guns. President Xi Jinping has vigorously turned the tide, helped the crisis and stabilized the tide, led the convening of the Gutian All-Army Political Work Conference, established the strategy for political military building in the new era, and established the four fundamental things of ideals and beliefs, party spirit and principles, combat effectiveness standards, and political work prestige in the whole army, and saved and developed this people's army with glorious traditions led by our party at a critical moment. Unswervingly adhere to the party's absolute leadership over the army, improve the system of the party's leadership over the army, especially write the "Central Military Commission to implement the chairman responsibility system" into the party constitution, promote the implementation of the central military commission chairman responsibility system legal, standardized, procedural operation, to ensure that the supreme leadership and command of the army belongs to the party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, to listen to the command of Chairman Xi, to be responsible to President Xi, and to reassure President Xi that it is a conscious action at all levels. We should promote political rectification and training in the spirit of rectification, resolutely investigate and deal with guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou, Fang Fenghui, Zhang Yang, and other serious cases of violating discipline and law, thoroughly eliminate their poisonous influence, vigorously promote the rectification of the work style and discipline and the fight against corruption, bring a large number of corrupt elements to justice, and bring about a fundamental improvement in the political ecology. Strengthen the lifeline of the army's political work, convene the Central Military Commission's party building meeting, grassroots construction meeting, talent work conference, and all-army ideological and political education work conference, comprehensively strengthen the army's party building, comprehensively forge a strong grass-roots level, build a people's army ideological and political education system in the new era, carry out a series of theme education and centralized education within the party, implement the project of passing on the red gene from generation to generation, train revolutionary soldiers in the "four haves" new era, and forge "four iron" excellent troops. Over the past few years, the officers and men of the whole army have practiced absolute loyalty to the party with practical actions, and a large number of advanced models have emerged, such as the heroic group of heroes defending the country and guarding the border in the new era, and Du Fuguo, the "heroic warrior of mine clearance," which has shown a good appearance of the heroic people's army in the new era.

Accelerate the modernization of national defense and the armed forces, and the people's armed forces will speed up and build high quality. Focusing on being consistent with the process of national modernization, President Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed that the modernization of national defense and the armed forces should be accelerated, and there should be a major improvement in the shortest possible time, and system design and strategic deployment should be made. After long-term efforts, our army has basically realized mechanization, made major progress in informationization construction, raised its construction level and actual combat capability to a great level, and is making great strides towards world-class development. Implement the strategy of reforming and strengthening the armed forces, carry out the most extensive and profound reform of national defense and the armed forces since the founding of New China, reconstruct the leadership and command system, break the long-standing system of headquarters, the system of large military regions, and the system of the continental army, and form a new pattern of the Central Military Commission in charge of the general administration, the main battle in the theater, and the main construction of the service; Reconstruct the modern military force system, reduce the number of active duty personnel by 300,000, and change the force structure and force deployment of the land combat type and the land defense type; The military policy system has been reconstructed, and laws such as the National Defense Law, the Military Service Law, and the Law on the Status and Rights and Interests of Military Personnel have been formulated, revised, and promulgated, a large number of policies and systems have been intensively introduced, and the effectiveness of reform has been continuously released. Implement the strategy of strengthening the army through science and technology, build an innovative people's army, promote national defense science and technology innovation, and make breakthroughs in some strategic, cutting-edge, and subversive technologies; Build all the logistics for the sake of war, build a modern military logistics system, and a modern asset management system for the army; The success of major countries' heavy weapons has been frequently reported, the upgrading of main battle weapons and equipment has been accelerated, domestic aircraft carriers and new nuclear submarines have been handed over to the train, new fighters represented by the "J-20" and "Y-20" have been put into use, and the "Dongfeng" series has grown day by day. Implement the strategy of strengthening the army with qualified personnel, create a phalanx of high-quality and specialized new-type military talents with both ability and political integrity, clarify the standards for good cadres in the army, and comprehensively inspect and identify and exchange and use cadres on a large scale; Focus on preparing for war, focusing on the training of joint combat command personnel, new-type combat forces talents, high-level scientific and technological innovation talents, and high-level strategic management personnel; Establish a military education policy for the new era and build a new military talent training system in the trinity; Promote the construction of an incentive system for honors and treatment of military personnel, and introduce policies and measures such as meritorious honors and commendations, preferential treatment for the education of military children, parental support subsidies, spouse honorary payments, and medical treatment guarantees, which have effectively enhanced the sense of mission, sense of gain, and sense of honor of officers and soldiers. Implement the strategy of governing the army according to law, build a military rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, improve the system of restraint and supervision of the operation of power, highlight the management of officials and powers according to law, accelerate the fundamental change in the way of managing the army, and make major progress in the practice of managing the army according to law.

Effectively fulfilling the mission and tasks of the new era, the people's army resolutely defends national sovereignty, security and development interests. In the final analysis, the "strength" of a strong army is to have a strong ability to win wars and to be able to shoulder mission responsibilities. President Xi Jinping led the convening of the Military Work Conference and the Military Training Conference of the Central Military Commission, issued the mobilization order for the opening of training for 5 consecutive years, issued the "question of winning the war", "the question of value" and "the question of skill torture" to the whole army, firmly established the only fundamental criterion of combat effectiveness, and effectively promoted the focus of rectification work at all levels and focused on the main business. Keep pace with the times and innovate military strategic guidance, formulate military strategic guidelines for the new era, adjust and optimize the military strategic layout, and strengthen the strategic functions of the people's army in shaping the situation, managing crises, containing wars, and winning wars. It is necessary to establish joint operational command structures at the two levels of the Central Military Commission and the theater, strengthen strategic forces and new-dimensional combat forces in the new domain, strengthen the joint operational command system and capacity building, and open up a new situation of joint operations as the guideline and joint operations training. We should vigorously grasp military training in actual combat, thoroughly rectify the "accumulated shortcomings of peace," strengthen joint training in theaters, carry out mass military training competitions, and constantly increase the intensity of training and the difficulty of training, so that our army's deterrence and actual combat capabilities have been markedly enhanced. Firmly and flexibly carry out military struggle, effectively respond to external military provocations, deter "Taiwan independence" separatist acts, strengthen border control and anti-encroachment struggle, set up an air defense identification zone in the East China Sea, carry out the struggle for the protection of the rights of the Diaoyu Islands, shape a favorable strategic posture for military struggle in the South China Sea, effectively carry out major tasks such as counter-terrorism and stability maintenance, emergency rescue and disaster relief, fight against the epidemic, peacekeeping escort, humanitarian rescue and international military cooperation, and defend national sovereignty, security and development interests with tenacious fighting spirit and practical actions, and enhance the national prestige and military prestige.

Deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", and be determined to strive to strengthen the army and create first-class achievements in the new era and new journey

Looking back at the ten years of struggle of the strong army, all the achievements of the people's army lie in the strong leadership of President Xi Jinping and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the army. Practice has fully proved that the "two establishments" are the fundamental guarantee for winning new victories in the great struggle in the new era, which have a bearing on the banner direction and road, and on the party's movement and the soul of the country. We must transform our profound understanding of the decisive significance of the "two establishments" into enhancing the "four consciousnesses," strengthening the "four self-confidences," achieving the "two safeguards," implementing the high degree of consciousness of the responsibility system of the chairman of the Central Military Commission, holding high the ideological banner, loyally safeguarding the core, resolutely obeying commands, and speeding up the comprehensive building of the people's army into a world-class army.

Forge an absolutely loyal character. Forging the soul of the army under the banner of the party is where the fundamental strength of the people's army lies. At present, the century-old changes and the century epidemic are intertwined and superimposed, the diversity and diversity of ideology and culture are more prominent, exchanges and confrontations are more frequent, and the struggle in the ideological field is very sharp and complex, which puts forward higher requirements for the political soul of officers and soldiers to firmly obey the party's command. It is necessary to build a solid foundation of ideals and beliefs, deepen the arming of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, highlight the study of Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, implement the requirements of improving the study style, consolidate and expand the achievements of party history study and education, guide officers and soldiers to transform their thinking and enhance their realm in connection with reality, and more internally and consciously enhance the cohesion of the centripetal and strengthen the loyalty and faith. Comprehensively and thoroughly implement the responsibility system for the chairman of the Central Military Commission, implement the three work mechanisms of requesting instructions and reports, supervising and inspecting, and providing information services, twist the implementation of the basic system, build and strengthen the organizational system, and take inner-party life seriously, do a good job of training in political ability and political practice, strengthen the identification of loyalty and political inspection of leading cadres, enhance the political functions and organizational strength of party organizations at all levels, and ensure that the party's absolute leadership over the army goes directly to the grass-roots level and directly to officers and men. Continue to deepen political rectification and training, consolidate the effectiveness of eliminating the poisonous influence of Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou, Fang Fenghui, and Zhang Yang, strictly enforce political discipline and political rules, fight the active battle of ideological struggle, and ensure that the troops are highly centralized, unified, and pure.

We should pay close attention to the work of preparing for war and fighting wars. At present and for some time to come, the instability and uncertainty of the international situation have increased markedly, and the security of the mainland is facing more severe challenges, and even unimaginable waves will be encountered. The more complicated the situation, the more powerful the ability and the more reliable the means must be forged. It is necessary to thoroughly understand strategic guidance, deeply study and comprehend Xi Jinping's military strategic thinking, implement the military strategic guidelines for the new era, persist in planning and guiding military operations from a political height and national interests, resolutely safeguard the core interests of the country, emphasize the art of struggle and struggle tactics, and ensure political and strategic initiative. We should deepen practical training in actual combat, closely follow the evolution of the form of war to study strategies for defeating the enemy, closely follow operational tasks, combat opponents, and operational environments, strengthen targeted, testing, and confrontational training, strengthen front-line training in military struggle, and improve the level of training and actual combat capability. Systematically promote political work in preparing for war, carry out the activities of making meritorious contributions and creating models in the new era, cultivate the fighting spirit of not being afraid of hardship and death, focus on preparing for war and cultivating talents, do a good job in specializing in wartime political work, step up the upgrading of political cadres' ability to fight wars, and further increase the contribution rate of political work services to prepare for war.

Improve the quality and efficiency of construction and development. To promote the modernization of national defense and the armed forces, we must put high-quality development in the first place, change the concept of development, innovate the development model, enhance the momentum of development, and accelerate the effective supply of advanced combat effectiveness. It is necessary to strengthen the anxiety of tackling key problems in planning, persist in leading construction with war and promoting construction with preparation, improve the level of strategic management, set solid measures for major projects related to the generation of combat effectiveness, pay close attention to the promotion of mature construction conditions, pool wisdom and dredge up the blockages and card points in implementation, and promote the accelerated generation of strategic capabilities. Strengthen the tenacity to promote reform, adhere to the same direction, the road is not biased, and the intensity is not reduced, promote reform in accordance with the established arrangements, break through the "obstruction in the middle" and open up the "last kilometer", and at the same time closely follow the process of modernization and development of our army, further improve the mechanism, straighten out the relationship, improve efficiency, and unswervingly carry out the reform to the end. Strengthen the vigor of innovation and breakthroughs, improve the awareness, innovation and application of science and technology, break the mindset, work inertia and path dependence, explore the "science and technology +" empowerment and efficiency improvement path, and effectively promote the transformation and leapfrog of the troops with new ideas and new measures.

Take the initiative. To take a good new journey of strengthening the army, it is most necessary to stand up the backbone, charge ahead, and shoulder the mission and responsibility with a fighting and enterprising attitude. It is necessary to cultivate the feelings of the family and the country, keep firmly in mind the "great power of the country", establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, temper a strong party spirit, abandon selfish and distracting thoughts, and always be extremely responsible and serious about the cause. We must have the courage to overcome difficulties and shoulder our responsibilities in the face of hardships, difficulties, heavy burdens, and dangers; whether it is problems left over from history or new situations and new problems, we must be able to stand up to them, push forward on our own feet, start by solving one specific problem after another, and sweep away the "stumbling blocks" on the road to strengthening the army. We should persist in working hard and doing solid work, carry forward the spirit of nailing nails, focus on the actual results of actual combat in all work, vigorously guard against formalism and bureaucracy, do more good factual things that are conducive to enhancing combat effectiveness, do more good factual things for officers and men to eliminate worries and solve difficulties, create new achievements that can withstand the test of history and practice, and greet the victory of the party's twentieth national congress with practical actions.