China News Service, Beijing, December 26th. Title: Researcher of the Academy of Military Sciences: theoretical research cannot be shelved, but must be transformed into combat effectiveness
Reporter Li Chun
"Without theory, there is no direction for action." According to Li Ming, who has studied Mao Zedong's military thought for a long time, theoretical research must not just stop at the level of concept, spirit, and thought, but must have guiding significance for the current reality.
Researcher Jiang Tiejun went to the Liangshan Detachment of the Armed Police Force to carry out theoretical service and grassroots activities.
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The Party’s Innovation Theory Research Center of the PLA Academy of Military Sciences, where Li Ming works, came into being in September 2017 amidst the tide of China’s deepening of national defense and military reforms.
The main function of this "intelligent-intensive" academic unit in the Chinese military is to research and disseminate the party's innovative theories, especially the party's military guidance theory.
Conduct theoretical dialogues with officers and soldiers of Dagong Third Company.
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Theoretical research always gives people a boring and obscure sense of distance.
However, in the daily work of the center, the theoretical results that seem to be "tall" can also be presented in the lives of officers and soldiers in the form of "down-to-earth".
Hold a strong army forum.
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As a major participant in the "How to View Military Camp Theoretical Hotspots" series produced by the center, researcher Xiong Xinglin still remembers that only three days after the 2019 "How to View Military Camp Theoretical Hotspots" was issued to the troops, she and her colleagues went to the grassroots troops for inspection .
A battalion commander of a certain army unit who had just returned from a peacekeeping mission recited many of the contents of the book in front of the researchers.
Rongli collective third-class merit.
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The battalion commander's "reverse memorization" was not "rote memorization", but took the contents of the book into his heart.
Observing the "How to View Military Camp Theory Hotspots 2020" released in July this year, the book answers many current hot topics such as epidemic prevention and control, Sino-US trade wars, overseas peacekeeping, and many other "how to see" questions. Most of the selected cases occurred during the year. News events.
It is not difficult to understand why the content of the book is so attractive to readers.
Xiong Xinglin told reporters that these questions answered in the book were not asked by the editors, but were actually asked by officers and soldiers recruited from the barracks, and then professionally interpreted by the researchers, using "war words" to answer questions for the soldiers. .
"We will study what officers and soldiers want to learn or like to watch, and then present them in a corresponding way."
Let the tree of theory last, and let the party's innovative theory "fly into the homes of ordinary people". This is the scientific research spirit that the center has upheld since its establishment.
Award certificate.
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Xi Jinping’s “renewed” military ideological moot, researched and developed the party’s military guidance theory mind map, and produced H5 and Vlog works for theoretical dissemination... Today’s theoretical research is by no means a simple “turning over a book, writing a paper, and burying one's head”. It must serve the reality and be more acceptable to contemporary people.
Back to an essential topic of theoretical research: Why should we attach importance to the research of the party's military guidance theory?
Zhou Junjie, director of the Party’s Innovation Theory Research Center, pointed out that in the military science system, the Party’s military guidance theory leads all other research disciplines and is at the highest level of military theory research.
According to Jiang Tiejun, an expert at the center, the party's innovative theory refers to the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Compared with Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, it is the "big guiding ideology" written into the Party Constitution of the Communist Party of China.
The party's military guidance theory is an important part of the party's innovative theoretical content, and is a scientific theory that guides army building, development, and application.
Works achievements.
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Looking back at the War of Liberation, Jiang Tiejun pointed out that at that time the PLA’s weapons, equipment and tactical actions were not comparable to those of the Kuomintang army. A key factor for the ultimate victory was that the PLA had a higher strategic quality, and it was “the higher the higher the higher”, and the commander-in-chief The Ministry’s strategic guidance is many times higher.
"We are smart at the strategic level and command level."
In Li Ming's view, the emphasis on theoretical research comes from two dimensions, the first is historical reasons.
The Chinese Communist Party has always attached great importance to theoretical arming, and this is also a successful experience of the Chinese Communist Party.
Theories are organized and scientific experience combing and summarizing, and are the embodiment of laws.
The Chinese military regards the party's military guidance theory as a science. "Without theory, our party cannot succeed."
Works achievements.
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The other dimension is the practical significance of theoretical research.
"There is no country or army whose rise is not guided by scientific theory." Li Ming said that with the rapid development of modern science and technology, the form of war has changed very rapidly, and the speed of the world's new military revolution has never been faster.
Without theoretical guidance, we cannot keep up with the times, nor can we solve the problems that arise on the way forward.
Out of the dual considerations of keeping up with the development of the times and the needs of its own construction, the Chinese military must attach importance to theoretical construction, explore empirical laws in practice, and summarize and upgrade it to theory before guiding new practice.
Engaged in theoretical research for more than ten years, the center researcher Chen Dongheng is well versed in the relationship between theory and practice, and also pays great attention to hot spot tracking, data collection and investigation.
When the situation of the new crown pneumonia epidemic was the most severe this year, Chen Dongheng worked more than 12 hours a day to collect and summarize relevant information on epidemic prevention and control, and provided many constructive suggestions for fighting the epidemic.
Works achievements.
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In early March, the article "Biosafety Prevention and Control: A War That Cannot Be Lost" by Chen Dongheng appeared in the newspapers.
The article conducted a profound analysis of the importance of biosecurity, and pointed out that “my country urgently needs to strengthen strategic planning, advance scientific and technological research and development, and build a biological prevention and control system chain that integrates global threat monitoring and early warning, emergency response and scientific and technological support, so as to rapidly improve biosecurity. Protection ability".
A few days later, an expert from the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences specifically called and said that this article was published in a timely manner, with strong professionalism, and has very important reference significance in the current environment.
"Military theory is derived from practice and service practice" is a general consensus at the center.
These Chinese military theorists believe that the closer theoretical research is to the fertile ground of practice, the closer it is to truth.
The fundamental idea that theory serves reality must be established to prevent simple textual research and simple explanation of characters.
Since its establishment more than three years ago, the center has successively completed more than 60 important achievements such as the "Major Projects of Central Marxist Theory Research and Construction Engineering", "Xi Jinping Thoughts on Strengthening the Army" and more than 70 important research reports including reports from national high-end think tanks , Published more than 170 academic articles in authoritative media.
The results of a number of theoretical studies have been transformed into practical assistance for strengthening the army.
Works achievements.
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Just in August this year, one of the results of the "New Era Strong Army Research Series" compiled by the center passed the final review.
Evaluation by experts from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, National Defense University and other units, the book absorbs the authoritative results of the current domestic research on Xi Jinping's thought of strengthening the army, and is of great significance for the systematic interpretation of the latest achievements of the party's military guidance theory and filling the gaps in educational materials for colleges.
"Why the tree of theory can be long-lasting is that it must be combined with practice to be long-lasting." Chen Dongheng also pointed out that in the face of major "outbreaks", theoretical workers must "rush forward and don't shrink back."
"Being able to get in, I think it's very valuable to do this. After I went out, I got a good response, and I didn't feel tired at that time."
Although the development of science and technology has brought about tremendous changes in the method of theoretical research and dissemination, in the view of Zhang Shude, an expert at the center, the mission of "conscientiously studying and fighting for the building of the army" has never changed.
This "veteran" who has been engaged in the party's military guidance theory research and teaching for 37 years pointed out that the results of theoretical research cannot be put on the shelf.
"Researchers must stand at the forefront, find new characteristics, new laws, new methods, and new methods of theoretical arms, so that theories can be transformed into combat effectiveness." (End)