Xinhua News Agency, Changchun, July 23 (Reporters Li Xuanliang, Zhang Yuqing) On the August 1st Army Day, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission visited the Air Force Aviation University on the 23rd to represent the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission. I would like to extend my sincere greetings to the teachers, students and staff of the school, and congratulate all the officers and soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army, the armed police force, and the militia reserve. He emphasized that it is necessary to implement the party's thinking of strengthening the army in the new era, implement the military strategic policy of the new era, implement the military education policy of the new era, deepen reform and innovation, continuously improve the level of schooling and education, and strive to create a new situation in school construction and development.

  The northeast land in July is full of lush greenery and full of vitality. At 10 o'clock in the morning, Xi Jinping came to Air Force Aviation University. In the school’s aviation hall, Xi Jinping inspected the exhibition of the spirit of the Northeast old aviation school and the exhibition of school construction. The Northeast Old Aviation School is the first aviation school founded by the Communist Party of China. Everyone has united and worked hard, worked hard, dedicated themselves, and opened up new roads, nurturing the spirit of the Northeast Old Aviation School. Xi Jinping urged everyone to remember the glorious history and carry forward the spirit of the old Northeast Aviation School.

  On the training ground, student pilots are undergoing special physical fitness and anti-vertigo training. Modern air combat requires high physical and mental quality of pilots. The school has set up training content such as balance exercises, rollers, and spiral ladders. Xi Jinping came to the training ground and saw that the student pilots were training on spiral ladders. He cordially communicated with everyone. Not far away, functional training is in full swing, each with its own characteristics, Xi Jinping watched as he walked. The all-in-one machine for load-resistance training and testing is a training device independently developed by the school. The trainees are very involved in the training, and Xi Jinping takes it very carefully. Xi Jinping encouraged the pilots to study hard, train hard, and train scientifically to become a blue eagle as soon as possible and contribute to a strong army.

  Later, Xi Jinping came to the UAV laboratory to inspect the UAV control teaching facilities and learn about the training of UAV operators. Xi Jinping said that with the emergence of various types of unmanned aerial vehicles in large numbers, unmanned operations are profoundly changing the face of warfare. It is necessary to strengthen the research of unmanned operations, strengthen the professional construction of unmanned aerial vehicles, strengthen actual combat education and training, and accelerate the cultivation of unmanned aerial vehicle use and command talents.

  Xi Jinping listened to the report on the work of the school and delivered an important speech. He emphasized that it is necessary to adapt to the new situation and task requirements, closely follow the orientation of running a school, strengthen top-level design and long-term planning, and transform the strategy of strengthening the army with talents into development plans and pragmatic measures, and implement them in various fields and the entire process of running a school. It is necessary to grasp the growth characteristics of flying talents, optimize the development path, improve the training system, and improve the quality and efficiency of training.

  Xi Jinping pointed out that the more accurate the academy and the military are, the more closely the classroom is connected to the battlefield, and the better the way the talents are trained. We must focus on actual combat and focus on winning, teaching and educating talents, so that teaching is fighting and training is fighting. It is necessary to strengthen research on modern warfare, especially modern air warfare, to optimize disciplines and specialties, build strong teachers, innovate training models, strengthen method construction, and promote the overall upgrade of education and training. It is necessary to uphold morality, cultivate people for war, strengthen military soul education, strengthen combat spirit, and comprehensively lay a solid foundation for the ideological and political, military professional, scientific and cultural, physical and psychological qualities of the pilots, and make sure that the beginning of the military and the beginning of the flight solid.

  Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to focus on the overall situation of the air force's transformation and construction, and take active actions in the areas of thinking and concept updating, military personnel training, military theoretical research, and national defense technology innovation. It is necessary to closely follow the development trend of the world's new military revolution, strengthen the pre-positioning of emerging fields, strengthen the construction of frontier disciplines, strengthen the training of new types of talents, and promote the accelerated incubation and generation of new quality combat capabilities. The relevant departments of the Air Force and the Military Commission should strengthen guidance to help resolve outstanding contradictions and problems.

  Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen party building and ideological and political construction, implement the requirements of strict party governance in an all-round way, and ensure that all school tasks adhere to a firm and correct political direction. We must adhere to the rule of law and strict management of the school, do a good job in the work of laying foundations at the grassroots level, and maintain a high degree of concentration, unity, safety and stability. At all levels, it is necessary to strengthen the sense of service, enthusiasm to solve problems for teachers and students, and stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the staff.

  Xi Jinping finally emphasized the need to tighten the string of epidemic prevention and control, do a solid job of normalization of prevention and control, coordinate all tasks and constructions, and take multiple measures to increase advancement and strive to complete the set tasks.

  Xu Qiliang and others participated in the event.