People's Daily Online, Beijing, August 1st. This year marks the 92nd anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is destined to be a special year. In the coming October, the People's Army under comprehensive reform will walk through Tiananmen Square with a brand-new attitude and be reviewed by President Xi and the people, demonstrating to the world the People's Army's firm belief and practical ability to resolutely safeguard the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation under the leadership of the Party.

Army construction and national development always complement each other. The decadent Qing government could not find the correct way to manage and use the military. After the destruction of the Beiyang Navy, it had no confidence and capital to fight again, and finally retired from the stage of history. The Kuomintang failed to manage the army well. Although it had sophisticated weapons and equipment, the army was riddled with factions and infighting, and could not escape the fate of defeat. Under the leadership of the Party, the People's Army became stronger with each war. In the arduous revolutionary struggle, it successfully carried out the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War. In the socialist revolution and construction, it successfully won the victory in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea and multiple border self-defense operations. In the new great revolution of reform and opening up, it effectively served and guaranteed the overall situation of national reform, development and stability. Under the leadership of the Party, the People's Army has made indelible contributions to the development and construction of New China.

In the new era, the quality of military construction has a more profound impact on the rise and fall of a country. The world today is facing major changes unseen in a century. Economic globalization, world multipolarity, and regional integration are developing in depth. Challenges and opportunities coexist in the changes. On the one hand, the new military revolution in the world is accelerating. All major powers are constantly promoting revolutionary changes in military technology and warfare patterns, striving to seize the strategic initiative in the coming changes. On the other hand, our country is at a critical stage of growing from big to strong, and is facing an increasingly complex security and development situation.

We cannot forget danger when we are in peace, and we cannot forget chaos when we are in control. Faced with the complicated internal and external situations, President Xi profoundly pointed out: "A strong country must have a strong army, and a strong army can provide national security." National defense and military building have always been the strong backing for realizing the great dream, military means have always been the guarantee for safeguarding national security, military struggle is an important aspect of carrying out great struggles, and the ability to win is the strategic capability for safeguarding national security.

The modernization process of national defense and the army must be compatible with the national modernization process. Socialism with Chinese characteristics will leapfrog from the first centenary goal to the second centenary goal. National defense and military construction will also start a new journey to basically realize modernization on the basis of achieving the 2020 phased goals, and then comprehensively build our army into a world-class army.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has focused on realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, focusing on realizing the Party's goal of strengthening the military in the new era and the core requirements of building the People's Army into a world-class army, insisting on the path of building a strong military with Chinese characteristics, and leading the entire army to face problems, reform and overcome difficulties with great political courage and strong responsibility. , solved many problems that were considered impossible to solve in the past or wanted to solve but have not been able to solve them well, accomplished some things that we wanted to do in the past but have never been able to do, put forward a series of major principles and principles, made a series of major decisions and deployments, promoted a series of major construction projects, promoted the cause of strengthening the military to achieve historic achievements, realized historic changes, and led national defense and military construction into a new era. Over the past few years of reform, military construction has achieved reshaping of the political ecology, organizational form, struggle pattern, construction layout, and work style and image. The military reform has made great progress, made great breakthroughs, and achieved a historic leap forward.

However, just as "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation cannot be achieved easily and with the beat of gongs and drums,"Achievable", the road to becoming a world-class military is by no means smooth. At a new historical starting point, the reform and reshaping of the military will also face deeper contradictions and problems. There will definitely be many new "Loushanguan" and "Lazikou", and there will be many known and unknown opportunities and risks that may arise. In the face of this more difficult nut to crack, we must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping's thoughts on strengthening the military and continue to unswervingly advance the reform of the military in depth.

We must accurately grasp the mission and tasks of the military in the new era. The military must focus on preparing for war and building, providing strategic support for consolidating the leadership of the Communist Party of China and our country’s socialist system, providing strategic support for safeguarding national sovereignty, national unity, and territorial integrity, providing strategic support for expanding our country’s overseas interests, and providing strategic support for promoting world peace and development.

We must accurately grasp the Party’s Ten Strategic Arrangements for the Modernization of National Defense and the Military. The Ninth National Congress clarified the timetable and road map for the comprehensive modernization of national defense and the military, advancing the target of the third step of the original "three-step" development strategy by fifteen years, which fully reflects the inherent connection between national modernization and military modernization and the need to firmly grasp the goals and tasks of national defense and military construction, and to carry out one step at a time, one step at a time, and a blueprint to follow.

We must accurately grasp the strategic priorities of national defense and military modernization. and the modernization of the army, covering the joint combat command system, military management system, military training system, military talent system, national defense science and technology innovation system, military policy and system system, military-civilian integration system, etc. It is necessary to identify the key points, drive the overall construction with key breakthroughs, and promote the reform and construction of the military and the national modernization process in depth.

“Once the theory has grasped the masses, it will also become a material force. "The entire military unites closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, and firmly establishes and implements Xi Jinping's Thought on Strengthening the Military in national defense and military construction. The military will have extremely strong motivation and determination, and will be able to unite if it has direction, confidence, and strength. Gather the mighty forces to advance the cause of strengthening the military in the new era and achieve new victories in comprehensively advancing the modernization of national defense and the military and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Forward!

(National University of Defense Technology) Ma Jianguang Li Yuanbin)