Listen, the firm footsteps of strengthening the army
2020 is an extraordinary year in the history of New China.
This year is also the final year of the 13th Five-Year Plan for the construction and development of our army, and a crucial year for achieving the goals and tasks of national defense and army construction in 2020.
This year, the ideological foundation of raising the flag and casting the soul and following the party's command has been strengthened.
In the big test of the fight against the epidemic, in the flood prevention and disaster relief assaults, in the decisive battle against poverty, the whole army resolutely implemented the party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission and Chairman Xi Jinping's decision-making instructions, listened to the party's command and acted upon orders, and bravely shouldered heavy burdens. Humiliating the mission, it has been proved by practical actions that the People’s Army has always been a heroic army that the party and the people can trust.
This year, the intensity of actual combat training and preparations continued to increase.
Implementing the military strategy for the new era, insisting on focusing on preparations for war, mass training and contests, cross-regional base training, and military combat exercises are staged in turn, and the upsurge of training close to actual combat, capable and capable is surging.
The military training of the whole army has entered a new stage of comprehensive reform and overall improvement.
This year, the inspiration of the red blood and revolutionary spirit was fully demonstrated.
Remembering history, paying tribute to the heroes, the great spirit of resistance against Japan, the great spirit of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea travels through time and space, flowing in the chest of revolutionary soldiers in the new era.
The whole army adheres to the inheritance of the red gene as the strategic task and basic project for the political building of the new era, thoroughly implements Xi Jinping’s thinking on strengthening the army, and strives to build an ideological and political education system for the people’s army in the new era to provide a strong ideological and political guarantee for advancing the cause of strengthening the army.
This year, the National Defense Edition recorded the figures and sonorous footsteps of Chinese soldiers fighting in the great journey of strengthening the army in the new era: From the "New Year's training, I am in the battle position!"
"To "Training soldiers in the east, west, south and north, do not relax", from "Explore the Soldiers in "Vulcan Mountain" to "Youth Camouflage Shines on the Front Line of Anti-epidemic", from "The Army Helps Alleviate Poverty and Compose a New Story of Fish and Water" to "Flood Does Not Retreat "We will not retreat"", from "Approaching the Heroes and Models of the War of Resistance Against Japan" to "Revisiting the Story Behind the Cultural Relics of the War of Resistance Against America and Aid Korea"...
We invited several front-line officers and soldiers at the grass-roots level to tell the story of the year they saw in their respective positions.
Their stories may be small, but these micro narratives are all macroscopic developments.
Because it is this great era that has provided majestic motivation for those who are strong in the army and serve the country.
New ideas lead a new era, and new goals lead a new journey.
Standing at the historical intersection of achieving the "two centenary" goals, the People's Army will surely take solid steps on the road to a strong army with Chinese characteristics, consciously assume the historical responsibilities of revolutionary soldiers in the new era, and resolutely fulfill the party and the people's mission. Mission and task, to continuously push forward the cause of strengthening the army with an attitude of forging ahead with time.
Ni Guanghui