The People's Army New Year's Order No. 1 is issued!

  On January 4, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission signed the Central Military Commission’s Order No. 1 of 2021, issuing a training and mobilization order to the entire army.

  This is the fourth consecutive year that the military commander has personally issued a training mobilization order. It has established a clear direction for military training and sounded the horn of the times for training and preparing for war.

  Command No. 1, Mission No. 1——

  "In 2021, the entire military must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, implement Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, implement the military strategy of the new era, implement the spirit of the Military Training Conference of the Central Military Commission, and strengthen the party’s leadership over military training. Focus on preparing for war, deepen the transformation of military training, build a new type of military training system, and comprehensively improve the level of combat training and ability to win.

  2021 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Our party will lead the whole party, the whole army, and the people of all ethnic groups to embark on a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. The first step is an arduous task and a glorious mission.

  Military training is a preview of future wars.

President Xi attaches great importance to the actual combat capabilities of troops and attaches the greatest importance to military training.

As early as the end of 2013, at an important meeting of the Military Commission, President Xi clearly proposed "What should military training focus on? I think it means actual combat." He pointed out the development direction and put forward specific requirements for what and how to focus on military training in the new era.

  Military training in the new era will always remember this historic moment. At the beginning of the new year in 2018, the Central Military Commission solemnly held a training and mobilization meeting. President Xi was dressed in uniform and braved the cold to issue training orders to the entire army.

On the morning of January 3, 2018, the Central Military Commission solemnly held the 2018 Training and Mobilization Conference. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission issued training orders to the entire military.

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  This is the first time that the Central Military Commission has organized a unified training and mobilization of the entire army, and it is also the first time that the newly revised "Chinese People's Liberation Army Military Training Regulations (Trial)" has been implemented.

  In the following years, President Xi personally planned major exercises, made decisions on major military operations, and mobilized troops on the spot. The orientation of the whole army in preparing for war and the atmosphere became stronger, leaving a wonderful chapter in the history of military training and preparation.

  Being able to fight and win battles is the key to a strong army, military training is the central task, and training and preparation for war is the main responsibility and the main business, and we must hold on to it to achieve results.

During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the officers and soldiers of the entire army thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping's thinking on strengthening the army, thoroughly implemented the military strategy of the new era, and firmly erected the baton for preparing for war. Our army's military training has undergone historic changes and achieved historic achievements.

  The soldiers will practice under what conditions the battle is fought.

  During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the Army organized 360,000 resident training exercises on plateaus, islands and jungles;

  The Navy used the opportunity of combat readiness patrols, tracking and surveillance, and supporting cover to organize more than 300 combat operations such as maritime assaults, anti-submarine, amphibious, and submarine rescue operations;

  More than 1,300 pilots from dozens of aviation brigades of the Air Force went to the plateau and open sea for training;

  Dozens of missile brigades of the Rocket Army completed continuous launch training under full protection conditions in high temperature and high humidity battlefields;

  Tens of thousands of strategic support troops conducted mobile support training, familiarized themselves with the battlefield, tested their equipment, and verified their tactics.

A red company chariot of a brigade of the 83rd Army of the Army rushed to the exercise site (photographed on August 7, 2019).

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  Multi-type fighter planes flew over the Miyako Strait for the first time, the aircraft carrier formation was out of the first island chain, and good news of ocean and ocean training were frequent; emergency combat training in various theaters gradually improved, focusing on real security threats, deepening military combat training; major power heavy equipment training steadily progressed Promote the continuous extension of military training, and continue to practice hard-working and compulsively weigh the opponent's "killer"... The military training in the new era presents an exciting and magnificent scene.

  At present, the world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century. The new crown pneumonia epidemic has intensified the evolution of the major changes. The external environment and internal conditions of our military training have undergone profound changes, and various changes have superimposed impacts, bringing unprecedented opportunities and opportunities to military training. challenge.

  In the face of complex situations and difficult tasks, the entire military under the guidance of President Xi, from military commission agencies to theater agencies, from combat units to military academies, has vigorously studied the style of warfare. The research on combat issues, combat mechanisms, and tactics and training methods has become a common practice. Military training continues to innovate in content, methods and methods, and continue to advance toward future wars——

  The transition from passive adaptation to warfare to active design warfare.

Profoundly grasp the laws of modern warfare and the laws of war guidance, strengthen the innovation of combat theory, constantly innovate the methods of combat and the use of military forces, and follow the closed loop of war research, war design, war exercises, and war inspections, and use war to lead and train Promote the war, and the training is consistent.

  The shift from winning and facing hands to checking and balancing opponents.

Track and study opponents' technical equipment, combat application, strategic tactics, keep a close eye on opponents’ weaknesses and weaknesses, insist on "you beat yours, I beat mine", innovate flexible and mobile strategies and tactics, and practice the tactics of checks and balances. .

  Shift from focusing on contract training to focusing on joint training.

Firmly establish the concept of system victory, take confrontation inspection as a key method to promote system training, and comprehensively improve the joint combat capability and global combat capability based on the network information system.

  From the complex development of mechanization and informatization to the integration and development of mechanization and informatization and intelligence.

Adhere to mechanization as the basis, informatization as the leading role, and intelligence as the direction, and vigorously develop military training oriented towards informatization and foresight and intelligence.

The Armed Police Force has launched a comprehensive winter training activity to improve the level of actual combat training (photographed on December 14, 2020).

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  "Practical combat training", "joint combat training", "Science and technology training", "Training according to law"... In this year's training mobilization order, these keywords have attracted people's attention, marking the development of our military's military training in the new era. direction.

  In the face of changes in the times, wars, opponents, technology, and reforms, the new era of military training is ushering in a profound transformation, and we are striving for the goal of building the army for a century.

  Planning: Li Xuanliang, Huo Xiaoguang

  Coordinator: Hu Qinghai, Wang Xuan

  Lead writer: Mei Shixiong

  Vision | Editor: Wu Jingjing, Zhang Aifang, Zhang Huihui, Bao Yuhan

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