Gather the majestic strength
——Written on the occasion of the 20th National Defense Education Day
A strong country must have a strong army, and a strong army can ensure national security.
Today is my country's 20th National Defense Education Day, and yesterday was the 89th anniversary of the September 18th Incident.
The two dates are connected one after another, as if history is using pain to warn the world, remind Chinese, and educate future generations.
Past experience guide for the future.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
After going through the smoke and fire and looking back on the iron and blood journey, we are more deeply aware that without a solid national defense, without a strong army, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will not have security guarantees and the Chinese dream will not be truly realized.
A great significance of victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan lies in the fact that "big artillery and heavy bombs awakened our national consciousness" and the Chinese nation "turned from sand to rope."
All Chinese people are fighting for the survival of the country, fighting for national rejuvenation, and fighting for human justice. The extensive social mobilization, the profound national awakening, the tenacity of fighting, and the firm belief in victory have all reached unprecedented heights.
Although the world is safe, forgetting to fight is in danger.
If a country and a nation lacks national consciousness, family-nation feelings, and national defense concepts, no matter how large the territory, the population, and the rich products, it will be nothing but scattered sand, and it will be difficult to form a united force.
In the late Qing Dynasty, following foreign enemy invasions such as the Opium War and the Sino-Japanese War of Jiawu, the corrupt Qing Dynasty quickly fell to a historical low.
Liang Qichao once pointed out painfully: "It is the great danger of our citizens, which lies in not knowing what the country is." The establishment of the National Defense Education Day will help promote the spirit of patriotism, improve the concept of national defense, and guide the whole society to consciously fulfill national defense obligations, care, Support and participate in the construction of national defense, and gather a powerful force to realize the dream of a strong military in China.
Our army is the people's army, and our national defense is national defense.
The prosperity of the country and the rejuvenation of the nation are inseparable from the enhancement of the national defense awareness of the whole people.
Mao Zedong wrote in "On Protracted War": "The deepest root of the mighty power of war lies in the people. Japan dares to bully us, the main reason lies in the unorganized state of the Chinese people." Strong heart first.
National defense education is to "strengthen the heart" for a nation.
When caring for national defense, loving national defense, building national defense, and defending national defense become the ideological consensus and conscious action of the whole society, no one or any force can stop the historical pace of the Chinese nation’s great rejuvenation.
"In peace but never forget danger, survive but never forget death, and cure but never forget chaos."
At present, the world's major changes unseen in a century are accelerating, and the new crown pneumonia epidemic has a profound impact on the international situation, and my country's security situation has become more uncertain and unstable.
The great cause of national rejuvenation is unfinished. If the spiritual bond of unity and unity is broken, how can we win new victories and create new glory?
In the face of the requirements of the times to strengthen the country and the army, and the reality of the danger of war, we urgently need to firmly establish the concept of "big national defense", promote the normalization and popularization of national defense education, and inspire a sense of national pride and national honor. The majestic forces of united will continue to ideologically build a bronze and iron wall of national security.
(Author Unit: 63936 Troops)
Yang Huan