Optimizing the layout of the strong army and advancing the great cause of the strong army
——In-depth understanding of Chairman Xi ’s important speech when visiting the troops in Yunnan
【Jian Wu Tang】
To strengthen the country and the army, the focus is on the layout. On the eve of the Spring Festival, when inspecting the troops stationed in Yunnan, Chairman Xi made it clear that "adherence to political army building, reform army building, science and technology army building, talents army building, and army management by law". Compared with the previous formulations, changing the "technology to strengthen the army" to "technologically strong army", and at the same time adding the "talent to strengthen the army", marks that our party and the People's Army have further expanded and optimized the layout of the strong army. Implementing this layout of the strong army is of great and far-reaching significance for achieving the party's goal of strengthening the army in the new era and building a world-class army in an all-round way.
1. "Military articles" of the strategic layout of governance
"Those who can judge the bureau win more." History shows that the great historical achievements that a country and nation can create in an era are often closely related to the pattern that their leaders can hold and the strategically planned layout. "Insisting on building a political army, reforming a strong army, strengthening science and technology, talents, and governing the army according to law" is the layout of a strong army proposed by the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, and President Xi Xi with a grand vision. A major design formed by deepening and expanding the field of army building.
Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has proceeded from adhering to and developing the overall situation of socialism with Chinese characteristics, based on the reality of contemporary China ’s development, adhered to the clear problem orientation, and gradually formed and actively promoted the comprehensive construction of a well-off society and deepened reforms. The strategic layout of comprehensively governing the country according to law and comprehensively strict governance of the party. As the strategic layout of our party's governance of the country in the new era, the "four comprehensives" have established the strategic goals and strategic measures of the party and the country's work under new historical conditions. Our party positions it as a "rule of governance" in the new situation The general strategy of politics "is related to the overall strategy of the long-term development of the party and the country." Precisely because the strategic layout of the "Four Comprehensives" is so important, the CPC Central Committee's plenary sessions held in the new era have mostly focused on the "Four Comprehensives" and carried out research studies one by one. Precisely because the "four comprehensive" strategic layout is so important, when President Xi conducted the top-level design of the layout of the strong army, he initially planned from the strategic layout at the national level. On March 12, 2015, President Xi delivered an important speech at the plenary meeting of the PLA delegation to the Third Session of the Twelfth National People's Congress, emphasizing the strategic layout of building a well-off society in an all-round way, comprehensively deepening reform, comprehensively governing the country according to law, and comprehensively administering the party strictly Accelerate the advancement of national defense and army building, implement the decisions and arrangements of the Military Commission, and strive to create a new situation in which the army is strengthened. Since then, Chairman Xi has closely integrated the strategic considerations of strategic planning with the national conditions and military conditions of the new era, and has gradually formed a strong army that "adheres to building a political army, reforming a strong army, strengthening science and technology, talents, and governing the army according to law." layout. The layout of the strong army does not correspond one-to-one with the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, but the general idea is unified. If the "four comprehensives" is a strategic layout designed to focus on strengthening the country and rejuvenating the country, then "insisting on building a political army, reforming a strong army, strengthening a science and technology, talent, and governing the army" is designed to focus on strengthening a army Strategic layout.
In a certain sense, the strong military layout of "adhering to the political construction of the army, reforming the strong army, strengthening the science and technology, talents, and governing the army according to law" is the "military chapter" of the strategic layout of our party's governance of the country in the new era. "Those who can't seek the overall situation can't seek a domain, and those who don't seek a lifetime can't seek a moment." Our army is an armed group that carries out the party's political tasks. At any time and under any circumstances, we must observe and analyze problems from a political and overall perspective. solving issues. The strategic layout of our party's governance in the new era provides important guarantees for the realization of the "two hundred years" struggle goals and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and it clarifies the development direction, major tasks and strategies of the party and the country The deployment also indicates the overall situation of the work of the party and the country at present and in the future. All fronts in all fields of the country must obey and serve this overall situation, and national defense and army building must closely cooperate with this overall situation. In designing and promoting the layout of the strong army, we must consciously adapt to this overall situation, actively integrate into this overall situation, and act under this overall situation. To build a political army, we must unify with our party's requirements on political construction, guide officers and soldiers to enhance "four consciousnesses", strengthen "four self-confidences", and achieve "two safeguards", resolutely implement the responsibility system of the Chairman of the Military Commission, and ensure absolute loyalty , Absolute purity, and absolute reliability; deepening national defense and military reforms must be included in the overall plate of comprehensive deepening reforms, consistent with the national reform process, and connected with reforms in other fields; strengthening the army with science and technology should be placed in the national innovation-driven strategy Coordinating and coordinating, relying on scientific and technological progress and innovation to transfer our army construction model and combat effectiveness generation model to the track of innovation-driven development; talents should be integrated in the strategy of talents to strengthen the country, and cultivate high-quality, professional with both morality and talent New-type military talents; managing the army strictly according to law must be integrated into the overall layout of managing the country in accordance with the law, keeping pace and advancing. With the big design that the layout of the strong army closely depends on the strategic layout of the governance of the country, the strategic layout of the governance of the country has a solid support, and the layout of the strong army has a fundamental guarantee.
2. Substantial sublimation of practical experience in strengthening the army and promoting the army
Clausewitz said: "The army is like a tree. It always derives its vitality from the soil on which it grows." The expansion of our party's governance strategy to the military field is inseparable from the army's own soil . In other words, the layout of the strong army established by our party is not a dogmatic move of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout into the army, but the inevitable result of advancing the development of the strong army based on the national conditions and military conditions of the new era, which reflects the initiative of our party The dialectical unity of the political logic of strategic planning and the historical logic of the development of national defense and army building in the new era.
History shows that a truly strategic layout that can stand the test has always been formed in practice. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the magnificent practice of strong troops has given birth to a spectacular layout of strong troops. On January 5, 2016, President Xi emphasized that when he inspected the 13th Army, he further promoted the political construction of the army, reformed the army, and ruled the army according to law. On July 30, 2017, a military parade to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People ’s Liberation Army was held at Zhurihe Joint Training Base. President Xi reviewed the troops and delivered an important speech stressing that we must unswervingly adhere to political army building, reform and strengthening of the army, science and technology Revitalize the army, manage the army according to law, and comprehensively improve the level of national defense and army modernization. On October 18 of the same year, at the Nineteenth National Congress of the Party, President Xi proposed 14 basic strategies for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and in Article 11 the theme of "upholding the party's absolute leadership over the People's Army" The title clarifies the basic strategy for strengthening the army and rebuilding the army, which emphasizes once again "insisting on building a political army, reforming the strong army, rejuvenating the army with science and technology, and managing the army according to law." During the inspection of the troops stationed in Yunnan on the eve of the Spring Festival this year, President Xi proposed a more complete layout of the "strong adherence to the political army, the reform of the army, the science and technology, the talents, and the rule of law". From the perspective of the continuous expansion and optimization of the layout of the strong army, this layout was not put forward for proposal, but Chairman Xi naturally established it in the process of guiding the cause of the strong army in the new era. In 2017, the strategy of rejuvenating the army through science and technology was mature and fully implemented in practice. In November 2019, Chairman Xi attended the opening ceremony of the training of all military academies and delivered an important speech. He clearly put forward the policy of military education in the new era and emphasized the comprehensive implementation of the strategy of strengthening the military with talents. Since then, the integration of a strong army of talents into the layout of the strong army will come naturally.
The layout of the strong army established by the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, and Chairman Xi is in line with the needs of the development of the times, and the practice of fertile soil rooted in the strong army has spawned the flower of thought. Chairman Xi ’s important exposition on “Insisting on building a political army, reforming a strong army, strengthening a military with science and technology, strengthening a military with talents, and governing the army according to law” is the theoretical guidance for us to implement the layout of a strong army, leading our army to continuously create a new situation for a strong army . President Xi emphasized that political army building is the foundation for building an army. It is necessary to uphold the party ’s absolute leadership over the army and strengthen and improve our army ’s political work in the new situation. The most important thing is to put ideals and convictions, party spirit principles, combat effectiveness standards, and political work prestige four. It is necessary to establish something fundamental; reform is the only way for a strong army, and we must focus on solving the institutional obstacles, structural contradictions, and policy problems that restrict national defense and army building, and build a strong modern army, navy, air force, rocket force, and strategy. Support the army, build a joint combat command structure of absolute loyalty, good warfare, efficient command, and dare to win, accelerate the construction of a modern military system with Chinese characteristics, and improve and develop the socialist military system with Chinese characteristics; technological innovation is the core driver and must be Adhere to the strategic basis of independent innovation, increase the contribution rate of scientific and technological innovation to army building and combat effectiveness, and build an innovative people's army; human resources are valuable strategic resources for strengthening the army and rejuvenating the army, and we must step up the construction of a new "three in one" military personnel training system. Talents for commanding large joint operations, new types of operations Measure talents, high-level scientific and technological innovation talents, and high-level strategic management talents; the rule of law is the foundation of a strong army. It is necessary to strengthen the belief and rule of law of the entire army, build a military rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, and change the way of governance according to the rule of law ,and many more. These major ideological and theoretical viewpoints were put forward in the process of strategizing and strengthening the army, and they were put forward with a view to solving the outstanding contradictions faced by the national defense and army building in the new era. What came out has further enriched and developed Xi Jinping's strong army thinking.
3. Expansion and perfection of the road to a strong army with Chinese characteristics
The dream is ahead, the road is at your feet. To realize the dream of becoming a strong army with Chinese dreams, we must be firm in taking the path of strengthening our army with Chinese characteristics. Adhering to the layout of a strong army with political forces, a strong army with reforms, a strong army with science and technology, a strong army with talents, and a military governed by law, the basic path of a strong army with Chinese characteristics has been clarified. The continuous expansion and optimization of the layout of the strong army has made the road of a strong army with Chinese characteristics wider and wider.
"Being self-explanatory, self-explanatory, and self-satisfied." Marxism believes that the more ambitious the practice is, the more complicated it is to grasp the main contradictions and the main aspects of the contradictions and make full use of them. The joints of the joints exerted force to drive the overall advancement with key breakthroughs. Planning and designing a strategic layout is essentially to establish a focus based on the overall situation, so as to grasp the outline and drive the overall picture. During the 20th collective study of the 18th Central Political Bureau, Chairman Xi emphasized that we propose to coordinate and promote the comprehensive construction of a well-off society, comprehensively deepen reform, comprehensively govern the country according to law, and comprehensively strictly govern the party. The main contradictions must be resolved. The four words "main contradiction" indicate that although the term "four comprehensives" uses the word "comprehensive", it actually focuses on the main contradictions in the development of the party and the state. Concentrating these key points together to form the "four comprehensive" strategic layout reflects our party's grand idea of driving the overall development of the cause by grasping the main contradictions. In the same way, Chairman Xi established the layout of the strong army and focused on the overall situation of the strong army. Seizing the political army, reforming the army, strengthening the army with science and technology, strengthening the army with talents, and governing the army according to law, we can seize the key areas of army building, the main direction of attack, and the strategic grasp, and we can comprehensively improve the level of revolutionization, modernization and regularization. It should be noted that the establishment of a political army, a strong military through reform, a strong military through science and technology, a strong military through talents, and governing the army according to law clearly stipulate the direction, key tricks, powerful motivation, first resources, and rule of law guarantees for the strong army to promote the army. Throughout the cause of the strong army. Work in various fields and areas of national defense and army building almost has a problem of focusing on politics, reform, science and technology, talents, and the rule of law. For example, in the field of equipment construction, we must also do a good job of politics, reform, science and technology, talent, and the rule of law in the field of equipment construction. When we condensed the requirements of the above five areas in each field of national defense and army building, and do a job of extracting the "maximum common divisor", that is to insist on building a political army, reforming a strong army, science and technology, and talents. The layout of a strong army governing the army according to law. As long as we grasp the layout of the strong army, we can make overall planning for national defense and army building as a whole. With the great design of the layout of the strong army, the cause of the strong army in the new era can achieve great development.
"The sea is the mainstay, and the mountains are magnificent." In recent years, Chairman Xi has taken the extraordinary theoretical courage and strong mission of Marxist politicians, thinkers, and strategists to lead the army to continuously expand the layout of the strong army and be firm. We will not remove the road of strengthening the army with Chinese characteristics, work hard to achieve the party's goal of strengthening the army in the new era, and build a world-class army in an all-round way, making a major contribution to safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests. Held successively the Gutian Army Political Work Conference, the Military Commission Party Construction Conference, the Military Commission Grassroots Construction Conference, etc., co-ordinated the development of the theme education of "not forgetting the original intention, remembering the mission" and "inheriting the red genes, and shouldering the heavy military responsibility", insisting on the new era of Xi Jinping The socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics and Xi Jinping ’s strong army ideologically armed officers and soldiers, thoroughly and thoroughly eliminating the influence of Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou, Fang Fenghui, and Zhang Yang, firmly forging the ideological foundation of the army ’s absolute loyalty to the party, and achieving a new leap in political army building. Through the reform of leadership and command system, scale structure and strength reform, promote the overall revolutionary reshaping of the People ’s Army, convene a working meeting of the Military Commission ’s policy and system reform, start the “third major battle” to deepen national defense and military reform, and continue to release the reform dividend The sense of mission, acquisition and honor of officers and soldiers has been continuously improved, and the reform and strong army have achieved new breakthroughs. Strictly hold back science and technology, the most active and revolutionary factor in military development, deeply implement the innovation-driven development strategy and the strategy of revitalizing the military through science and technology, accelerate the construction of a national defense science and technology innovation system, accelerate the promotion of major technological innovation, independent innovation, and strengthen the military through science and technology Achieve new development. Clarify the standards for good cadres in the military, establish the correct orientation for selecting and employing personnel, adhere to both virtue and integrity, prioritize virtue, and appoint meritocracy, highlight political standards and ability to fight, focus on forging a team of high-quality cadres who are loyal and clean, and gather strong troops to win Talented people in all aspects, and a strong army of talents to achieve a new leap forward. Continuously strengthen the top-level design of the military law and regulations system, orderly advance legislative projects in key areas, the military rule of law implementation system, the military rule of law supervision system, and the military rule of law guarantee system are gradually improving, promoting a fundamental change in the way of managing the army, and achieving a new upgrade of the rule of law. Facing the future, we must continue to unswervingly implement the layout of a strong army that adheres to "strengthening a political army, reforming a strong army, science and technology, a talented army, and governing a lawful army" under the guidance of Xi Jinping's strong army. The road to a strong army is forging ahead and better fulfilling the mission of the new era entrusted by the party and the people.
(Author: National Defense University, Xi Jinping, a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center write: Liu Guangming)