On 19 April, the inaugural meeting of the Information Support Force was held in Beijing's Bayi Building. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, presented the military flag to the Information Support Force and delivered a speech. This is Xi Jinping's speech.
On 19 April, the inaugural meeting of the Information Support Force was held in Beijing's Bayi Building. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, presented the military flag to the Information Support Force and delivered a speech. This is Xi Jinping's general flag awarded to the commander of the Information Support Force, Bi Yi, and political commissar Li Wei.
The inaugural meeting of the Information Support Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was solemnly held at the Bayi Building in Beijing on 19 July. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, presented the military flag to the Information Support Force and delivered a speech, extending warm congratulations to all officers and soldiers of the Information Support Force on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission. He stressed that it is necessary to implement the idea of strengthening the army in the new era, implement the military strategic principles for the new era, persist in building the army politically, reforming and strengthening the army, strengthening the army with science and technology, strengthening the army with talents, and governing the army according to law, focus on preparing for war and fighting, and forge ahead with determination, work in a down-to-earth manner in accordance with the strategic requirements of system integration and all-domain support, and strive to build a powerful modern information support force.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the inaugural meeting began, and the audience sang the national anthem. The honor guard guarded the military flag and walked into front of the rostrum. Xi Jinping awarded the military flag to Bi Yi, commander of the Information Support Force, and Li Wei, political commissar. The main leaders of the information support force saluted Xi Jinping, received the military flag from Xi Jinping, and stood solemnly with the flag. All officers and men solemnly saluted the military flag.
After the flag-awarding ceremony, Xi Jinping delivered a speech. He pointed out that the readjustment and establishment of the information support force is a major policy decision made by the party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission in the light of the overall situation of strengthening the military cause, and is a strategic measure to build a new type of structural layout of the services and arms and to improve the system of modern military forces with Chinese characteristics, and is of great and far-reaching significance for speeding up the modernization of national defense and the armed forces and effectively fulfilling the missions and tasks of the people's army in the new era.
Xi Jinping stressed that the information support force is a newly created strategic branch of the armed forces, a key support for the overall construction and application of the network information system, and an important position and responsibility in promoting the high-quality development of our army and winning modern wars. It is necessary to resolutely obey the party's command, comprehensively implement the fundamental principle and system of the party's absolute leadership over the army, comprehensively strengthen party building in the troops, strengthen ideals and convictions, strictly enforce discipline and rules, carry forward fine work styles, and ensure that the troops are absolutely loyal, absolutely pure, and absolutely reliable. It is necessary to vigorously support operations, adhere to information dominance and joint victory, unblock information links, integrate information resources, strengthen information protection, deeply integrate into the joint operations system of the whole army, accurately and efficiently implement information support, and serve and support military struggles in all directions and fields. It is necessary to speed up innovation and development, adhere to the fundamental traction of operational needs, strengthen system coordination, promote joint construction and sharing, strengthen scientific and technological innovation, build a network information system that meets the requirements of modern warfare and has the characteristics of our army, and promote the acceleration of the system's combat capability with high quality. It is necessary to consolidate the foundation of the troops, implement the requirements of comprehensively and strictly administering the army, strictly educate and manage the army, maintain regular order, stimulate motivation and vitality, comprehensively forge a strong grassroots level, ensure a high degree of centralization, unity, security, and stability in the troops, strive to create a new situation in the building of the troops, and resolutely fulfill all tasks entrusted by the party and the people.
Speaking on behalf of the Information Support Force, Li Wei said that it is necessary to resolutely implement Chairman Xi's important instructions, resolutely obey the command of the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission and Chairman Xi, concentrate on preparing for war, faithfully perform their duties and responsibilities, and never let down the trust of the Party and the people.
The meeting ended with the majestic military song. After that, Xi Jinping met with the members of the leadership team of the Information Support Force and took a group photo with everyone.
At the inaugural meeting, Zhang Youxia, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, read out the order of the Central Military Commission on the formation of the information support force, the order on the appointment of members of the leading group of the information support force and the notice on the composition of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee issued by Xi Jinping.
Liu Zhenli, Miao Hua, and Zhang Shengmin, members of the Central Military Commission, attended the meeting. Relevant responsible comrades of all ministries and commissions of the Central Military Commission, all organs directly under the Central Military Commission, all theaters, all branches of the armed forces, units directly under the Central Military Commission, and the armed police force, as well as representatives of officers and men of various branches and arms and the armed police force, and representatives of civilian personnel attended the meeting.
According to the decision of the Central Military Commission, the newly established information support forces will be under the direct leadership and command of the Central Military Commission, and at the same time, the number of strategic support forces will be revoked, and the leadership and management relationship between the military space forces and the cyberspace forces will be adjusted accordingly.
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