Persist in the party commanding the guns and continuously promote the cause of strengthening the army (People's Watch)

　　National Defense University Study Jinping New Era Socialism Thought Research Center with Chinese Characteristics

　　Executive summary

　　The people's army is the strong pillar of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the party's absolute leadership over the people's army is the foundation of the people's army and the soul of strengthening the army. It is precisely because our country's national system and national governance system have always adhered to the party's command of guns, the people's army can continue to take solid steps on the road to a strong army with Chinese characteristics, and effectively protect national sovereignty, security, and development interests. In the new era, to uphold and improve the party's absolute leadership system over the people's army, it is necessary to work hard to uphold and consolidate, to improve and develop, and to implement and execute.

　　Build the army first, cast the soul, and strengthen the army first. For more than 90 years, the People's Army has firmly adhered to the party's absolute leadership over the army, taking this rule as the soul of the army that can never change and the root of life that can never be lost. The "Decision" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China regards "adhering to the party's command of guns, ensuring that the people's army is absolutely loyal to the party and the people, and effectively guaranteeing the significant advantages of national sovereignty, security, and development interests" as the national system and national governance system One of the significant advantages. Deeply grasping and giving full play to this remarkable advantage is of great practical significance and far-reaching historical significance for advancing the cause of strengthening the military in the new era and ensuring the long-term stability of the party and the country.

Deeply grasp the great significance of insisting on the party to command the gun

　　The people's army is the strong pillar of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the party's absolute leadership over the people's army is the foundation of the people's army and the soul of strengthening the army. Practice has proved that it is precisely because the party has always insisted on commanding the guns that the people's army can continue to take solid steps on the road to a strong army with Chinese characteristics.

　　The greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics lies in the concretization of the military field. The most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the Communist Party of China. This greatest advantage is embodied in the fields of national defense and army building, which is to insist on the party to command guns. Chairman Xi pointed out: "The party's absolute leadership over the army is the essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics, an important political advantage of the party and the country, and the foundation of the people's army and the soul of a strong army." The "essential characteristics" and "important political advantages" are all conclusions drawn from the perspective of military perspective, which is the "most essential characteristic" and "biggest advantage" of party leadership. The party’s absolute leadership system over the people’s army is the embodiment of the party’s core leadership position in the military field. It is consistent with, compatible with, and serves the people’s democratic dictatorship and the people’s congress system. It is important for defending socialism with Chinese characteristics. 1. It has played an irreplaceable role in promoting reform, development and stability.

　　A condensed summary of our party’s more than 90 years of historical experience in army building and governance. The party’s absolute leadership system over the People’s Army originated from the Nanchang Uprising, was based on the Sanwan Reorganization, and was finalized at the Gutian Conference, enriching and developing the great practice of the party’s leadership of the People’s Army in revolution, construction, and reform. In the historical process of building and leading the people’s army, our party closely integrated the Marxist theory of party building and army building with China’s reality, and constructed a complete set of systems for the party’s absolute leadership over the people’s army, which mainly includes: upholding the supreme leadership and command of the army It belongs to the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission. The Central Military Commission implements the chairman responsibility system, the party committee system, the political committee system, and the political organ system. It implements the division of labor and responsibility system under the collective leadership of the party committee, and the branch is built on the company. History has proved that this system is fully in line with our party, national, and military conditions. For more than 90 years, the most fundamental reason why our army has always had a strong cohesive force and a centripetal combat force, able to fight and win wars, and constantly move from victory to victory, is that the most fundamental reason is to insist on the party to command the gun.

　　The fundamental guarantee for achieving the goal of strengthening the army and building a world-class army in all respects. The world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century, and our country is in a critical period of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. On the way forward, we are bound to face various risks and challenges, and even encounter unimaginable stormy waves. To realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must be supported by strong military strength, achieve the goal of strengthening the army under the absolute leadership of the party, and build a world-class army in an all-round way. Taking upholding the party’s commanding guns as a significant advantage shows that our party will continue to use strong determination, adhere to the fundamental principles and systems of the party’s absolute leadership over the people’s army, and lead the people’s army to write a magnificent chapter in the cause of strengthening the army in the new era, and to act as the party. And the mission of the new era given by the people.

Significant advantages formed in continuous hard work

　　"Adhere to the party's command of the gun, ensure that the People's Army is absolutely loyal to the party and the people, and effectively guarantee the significant advantages of national sovereignty, security, and development interests." It is the People's Army that is rooted in the land of China under the strong leadership of the party and is constantly forging ahead. Forming.

　　It stems from the strong leadership of the party. Chairman Xi pointed out: "With the Communist Party of China and the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, the people's army will have a direction and strength to advance." Our army is an armed group that performs the party's political tasks, and it is inheriting the party's blood and genes. In the historical process of upholding the original mission of the party and fulfilling the mission and tasks entrusted by the party, we have continuously accumulated and strengthened the significant advantages of adhering to the party's command of the gun. Under the strong leadership of the party, the party's various advantages have been continuously internalized into the advantages of the people's army. For example, our party always adheres to Marxism, continuously promotes the modernization and popularization of Marxism in China, strives to improve the ideological and theoretical quality of the majority of party members and cadres, and always maintains the party’s advanced nature and purity in theory. This is our party’s theoretical advantage. . Our party applies this theoretical advantage to the people's army and persists in arming officers and soldiers with the party's innovative theories, so that the majority of officers and soldiers are absolutely ideologically loyal to the party and the people.

　　From the great power of the people. Chairman Xi pointed out: "The roots of the people's army are deeply rooted in the people's deep ground; the mighty power of the people's war comes from the great power of the people." "Adhere to the party's command of guns and ensure that the people's army is absolutely loyal to the party and the people. The significant advantages of national sovereignty, security, and development interests" stem from the fundamental purpose of our party and army to serve the people wholeheartedly, and the original mission of seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, thus winning the people’s support. Full support. For a long time, it has been the people's life and death that "the last bowl of rice was sent to make military rations, the last foot of cloth was sent to make military uniforms, the last old cotton jacket was covered on a stretcher, and the last flesh and blood was sent to the battlefield." Only then can hundreds of millions of soldiers and civilians have a strong force of unity and unity. Practice has proved that giving full play to the great role of the masses of the people as "the source of strength and the foundation of victory" will enable the people's army to be invincible and invincible.

　　It stems from the heroic struggle of the People's Army. Every monument is forged by hard work. For more than 90 years, the People’s Army has actively devoted itself to the historical torrent of national independence, the liberation of the people, the prosperity of the country, and the happiness of the people. It has gone through the smoke and fire, overcoming obstacles and making great sacrifices, achieving one after another brilliant victories, and establishing a great victory for the party and the people. Historical merits. "Adhere to the party's command of the gun, ensure that the people's army is absolutely loyal to the party and the people, and effectively guarantee the significant advantages of national sovereignty, security, and development interests" behind the people's army is the hard exploration, iron-blooded responsibility, and sacrifice. In the new era, the People's Army will be courageous, arduous, and capable on the road to a strong army with Chinese characteristics, ensuring that it can be drawn, advanced, and won when the party and the people need it.

　　It comes from the country's strong strength. To advance national defense and army building, we need to rely on the country's strong strength. Our party has always insisted on leading and advancing the cause of strengthening the military under the grand goal of realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and insisting on the unity of a prosperous country and a strong military. After the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, my country's economy has developed rapidly and its overall national strength has been continuously enhanced. With the support of strong national power, our party insists on placing military security in the overall national security system for overall planning and strengthening, placing national defense and military reforms on the large plate of comprehensively deepening national reforms, and placing scientific and technological strength on national innovation. The overall planning and linkage in the grand strategy of driving development has made the "significant advantages of adhering to the party's command of the gun, ensuring that the people's army is absolutely loyal to the party and the people, and effectively safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests" more prominent.

Uphold and improve the party's absolute leadership system over the people's army

　　The "Decision" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China regards "upholding and improving the party's absolute leadership system over the people's army and ensuring that the people's army faithfully fulfills the mission of the new era" as one of the "13 persistence and improvement." It is of great significance to adhere to the party's command of guns and continuously promote the cause of strengthening the army.

　　Work hard on persistence and consolidation. To uphold and improve the party's absolute leadership system over the people's army, we must first strengthen political and strategic determination, answer the question of "what to uphold and consolidate", and prevent subversive mistakes. President Xi emphasized that deepening the reform of national defense and the armed forces is the self-improvement and development of the socialist military system with Chinese characteristics, and it is for the purpose of making better use of the advantages of the socialist military system with Chinese characteristics. Reform is to better uphold the party's absolute leadership over the army, better uphold the nature and purpose of the people's army, and better uphold the glorious tradition and fine style of our army. No matter how you change it, these absolutely cannot be changed. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, through the deepening of national defense and military reforms, the fundamental principles and system of the party's absolute leadership over the people's military have been further consolidated. We must strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two maintenances", implement the chairman responsibility system of the Military Commission, firmly establish the guiding position of Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army in national defense and military construction, and consolidate, expand and deepen The achievements in the reform of national defense and the army have made the party's absolute leadership over the people's army more prominent.

　　Work hard on improvement and development. Upholding and improving the party's absolute leadership over the people's army is a systematic project. It is necessary to answer the question of "what to uphold and consolidate" and the question of "what to improve and develop". In the new era, if we want to realize the dream of a strong military in China, we must enrich and perfect the form of the party's absolute leadership over the people's army. It is up to the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission to maintain the supreme leadership and command power of the People's Army, and to improve the system and mechanisms for implementing the military commission chairman responsibility system. Improve the system of party building in the people's army, improve the system of ideological and political building of the party in the army, improve the organizational system of the party's leadership of the people's army, improve the system of building cadres in the army, and improve the system of building party style and discipline in the army. Regarding the establishment and improvement of the military policy system as an important guarantee for upholding the party’s absolute leadership over the people’s army, establish and improve the party’s military party building system that safeguards the authority of the Party Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership, and ensures the party’s absolute leadership over the people’s army. A policy system for the use of military forces that integrates peace and warfare, establishes a sound military force construction policy system that focuses on warfare, encourages innovation, and military-civilian integration, and establishes a precise, efficient, fully standardized, and rigidly restrained military management policy system.

　　Work hard on implementation and execution. The key to better transforming system advantages into the effectiveness of a strong army is to ensure the rigid implementation of the party's absolute leadership system over the people's army. Efforts should be made to improve the political consciousness and practical ability of upholding the party's absolute leadership over the people's army, and improve the leadership, organization, and execution capabilities of party organizations at all levels in the army. The chairman of the Military Commission shall be responsible for compliance with the highest political requirements, as the highest political discipline to maintain, to ensure that at all times and under any circumstances, he will resolutely obey President Xi’s instructions, be responsible to President Xi, and reassure President Xi. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of the implementation of the system, use disciplinary inspections, inspections, and audit supervision methods to deepen political inspections, do a good job in political physical examinations, correct political deviations, and earnestly bring the system to life. Leading cadres must be loyal and exemplary practitioners of the system, take the lead in learning and understanding, acting in accordance with the rules, and strictly observing disciplines, set an example, and lead the troops with exemplary actions.

　　(Writer: Liu Guangming Chen Jiakang)