The first observation丨Xi Jinping repeatedly emphasized the historical and practical significance of "the party commanding the gun"
On the centenary of the founding of the party, the heroic People’s Army celebrated its 94th birthday.
At this special and important time, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again emphasized the principle of the party commanding guns.
On the afternoon of July 30, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held the 32nd collective study on the party's absolute leadership over the people's army and striving to achieve the goal of the 100-year army.
General Secretary Xi Jinping made a speech when presiding over the study, and pointed out that looking back on the party’s centuries of struggle, insisting on the party’s command of guns and building its own people’s army is a major conclusion drawn by the party in the struggle between blood and fire.
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A month ago, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was grandly held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
On this "very important and solemn day," General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Adhering to the party's command of guns and building its own people's army is an unbreakable truth drawn by the party in the struggle of blood and fire."
On August 1st, 4 years ago, at a meeting celebrating the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army, President Xi Jinping emphasized: “History tells us that the party’s commanding gun is the fundamental guarantee for maintaining the nature and purpose of the People’s Army. The unbreakable truth drawn from the fight against fire."
On October 31, 2014, President Xi Jinping made a special trip to Gutian Town, Shanghang County, Fujian Province to attend the military political work conference that was being held there.
It was at this meeting that Chairman Xi Jinping pointed out that in long-term practice, our military’s political work has formed a set of fine traditions, including: upholding the party’s fundamental principles and system of commanding guns, upholding the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, and upholding The ideological line of seeking truth from facts, adhere to the fundamental style of the mass line, insist on arming officers and soldiers with scientific theory, insist on serving as a guarantee for the central tasks of the party and the army, insist on the fair selection and use of cadres, insist on the unity of officers and soldiers, promote democracy, and insist on implementing conscious strictness The discipline, persistence in the revolutionary spirit of hard struggle, sacrifice and dedication, persistence in party members and cadres taking the lead, setting an example, etc.
Party leaders and military commanders have repeatedly emphasized the principle of the Party’s commanding guns. What historical and practical significance does it have?
A strong country must have a strong army, and a strong army can ensure national security.
Looking back over a hundred years, we feel more deeply that national defense and army building are the strong backing for national security. Without a strong army, without a solid national defense, the Chinese dream will be difficult to realize, and there will be no guarantee for peaceful development.
This is the site of the headquarters of the August 1 Nanchang Uprising (photographed on July 28, 2017).
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On August 1, 1927, a shot was fired at the head of Nanchang City, which opened the curtain of our party's armed opposition to the Kuomintang reactionaries.
This gunshot announced the birth of a new type of People's Army led by the Communist Party of China in China.
Since then, the People’s Army under the leadership of the Communist Party of China has bravely devoted itself to the historical torrent of seeking liberation and happiness for the Chinese people, seeking independence and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, and is closely linked to the destiny of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. Together.
Throughout the historical periods of revolution, construction, and reform, the party led the people’s army to keep in mind its original mission, always maintain its character and purpose, overcoming obstacles along the way, achieving one after another brilliant victories, and establishing immortal feats for the party and the people.
The people's army has moved from victory to victory, demonstrating the great strength of the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
Comrade Mao Zedong once pointed out: "Our principle is that the party commands the gun, and we will never allow the gun to command the party."
"The People's Army Party was created, grows and strengthens the Party's training." Without the Communist Party, there would be no People's Liberation Army.
The fundamental principle and system of the party's absolute leadership over the military originated in the Nanchang Uprising, based on the Sanwan Reorganization, and finalized at the Gutian Conference. It is the political feature and fundamental advantage of the People's Army that is completely different from all old military forces.
Thousands of revolutionary soldiers are determined to listen to and follow the party, rising up even more amidst setbacks, and advancing courageously amidst hardships. They have created an invincible, invincible, invincible iron and steel master.
On the long and stormy road of revolution, the most common sentence of our soldiers is: As long as we follow the party, we will be able to win.
In 1935, when the Long March of the Red Army passed through the vast grassland, Li Yusheng, the deputy commander of the third company, took the initiative to gather the 28 wounded and sick who had fallen behind, and set up a temporary party branch. The spirit of "not falling behind" led everyone out of the grass and back to the Party Central Committee.
There is faith in the heart and strength under the feet.
Listening to the party and following the party are the spiritual force of the people's army to move forward courageously, and it is a torch burning in the hearts of the soldiers of the whole army.
Build the army first, cast the soul, and strengthen the army first.
On the way forward, the people's army must firmly uphold the party's absolute leadership over the army and regard this as the soul of the people's army that can never be changed and the lifeblood of the people's army.
Today, the party's absolute leadership over the army has formed a set of effective principles and systems.
With this whole set of systems as a guarantee, the party's leadership will be "as if it were one's own hands, like an arm's own instructions."
The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has elevated "adherence to the party's absolute leadership over the people's army" as a basic strategy for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party established the party's absolute leadership system over the people's army as the fundamental system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which is of great significance as a "ballast stone."
On the morning of July 1, 2021, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was grandly held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
This is the flight celebration performance before the start of the conference (photographed on July 1, 2021).
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The soul of the army will never change, and the flag will always be to the party.
Forging the foundation of the people’s army and the soul of strengthening the army, the most fundamental thing is to strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", achieve the "two maintenances", implement the military committee chairman responsibility system, and ensure the troops Absolute loyalty, absolute purity, absolute reliability, to ensure that the barrel of the gun always obeys the party's command.
The Central Military Commission implements the chairman responsibility system, which condenses our party’s valuable experience and fine traditions in building and governing the military. It is the core system of the party’s absolute leadership over the military and is the eternal sacred needle of the Great Wall.
By adhering to the party's absolute leadership over the people's army and advancing courageously in the direction guided by the party, the people's army can continue to grow and grow, and the party and the people's cause will have a strong support.
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made a strategic plan for accelerating the modernization of national defense and the armed forces at a new historical starting point.
A strong army has a long way to go.
To learn from history and create the future, we must accelerate the modernization of national defense and the military.
The current and future period is a critical period for the modernization of national defense and the army, and the whole army must achieve -
Fully implement Xi Jinping’s thought of strengthening the army, implement the military strategy of the new era, adhere to the party’s absolute leadership over the people’s army, and take the party’s banner as the banner, the party’s direction as the direction, and the party’s will as the will at all times and under any circumstances;
Persist in taking the path of strengthening the army with Chinese characteristics, comprehensively promote the political building of the army, the reform and strengthening of the army, the strengthening of the army with science and technology, the strengthening of the army with talents, and the administration of the army in accordance with the law. Build into a world-class army, defend national sovereignty, security, and development interests with stronger capabilities and more reliable means, and continue to write more glorious chapters of strengthening the country and the army.
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