As the Navy Day on April 23 is approaching, there is a busy scene of military training on the Wanli Haijiang Military Field.
In the East China Sea, Wei Huixiao, the first female captain of the navy, led the new guided-missile destroyer Shaoxing to complete a maritime training mission and return home.
10 years ago, she enlisted from a local young woman to become a female Navy officer.
In the evening, the amphibious assault ship Guangxi, which had just finished its assessment, was turning its course, and immediately began the next course exercise. The thick training plan in the hands of Captain Xu Ce turned another page.
Ten years ago, as the head of the anti-submarine department of the Changzhou ship, he was diligently studying anti-submarine warfare.
In the depths of the ocean, a "steel giant whale" quietly dived, and the "underwater pioneer boat" political commissar Zhang Zhizheng and the captain directed the training together.
Ten years ago, he was the political commissar of the "Underwater Launch Test Pioneer Boat", which is now quietly moored at the Navy Museum Pier.
In a sea training ground, a petite figure slipped down from a hovering helicopter and dived into the bushes. She was Yan Ling, a platoon leader of a Marine Corps brigade.
10 years ago, she joined the army with a pen from a local university and became an "amphibious overlord flower".
The 10 years of joint growth of these officers and soldiers is exactly the 10 years that the Navy has accelerated its transformation and construction and the improvement of its combat capability, and it has also been the 10 years that the People's Army has reformed and reshaped its struggling army. 10 years of historic achievements and historic changes.
In the past 10 years, under the leadership of President Xi, the People's Navy has worked hard, worked hard, and moved forward bravely around the grand goal of building a world-class navy in an all-round way. No matter the thinking concept, weapon equipment, and training mode, it has achieved leaps and bounds. development, and really advanced into the deep blue.
Today's People's Navy, with an unprecedented attitude, is writing one after another new brilliant and new achievements in the new era and new journey.
Loyalty, the belief background of the People's Navy
In the Naval Museum in Qingdao, Shandong, a shrapnel was taken from the brain of the fighting hero Mai Xiande, lying quietly in the showcase to receive the admiration of the visitors.
The shrapnel is speechless, but it shows the loyalty and belief of the "Iron Warrior".
Not long after the Naval Museum opened according to the new requirements, Mai Xiande, who came to visit, wrote a message: "Listen to the party's words, defend the motherland, and protect the country forever!"
Listening to the party's words and following the party is Mai Xiande's perseverance throughout his life, and it is also the belief in the hearts of every naval officer.
Looking back at the struggles of the People's Navy under the leadership of the Party, it all confirms an unbreakable truth: the Party's absolute leadership over the army is the fundamental magic weapon for us to grow from nothing, from weakness to strength, and from victory to victory.
In 2014, the submarine 372 encountered a major danger of "underwater cliff" when it performed a combat readiness voyage mission. The temporary maritime party committee led the officers and soldiers of the entire submarine to deal with it decisively and successfully completed the task, creating a miracle in the history of world submarines.
The Central Military Commission awarded the boat the honorary title of "Model Boat for Practicing the Goal of a Strong Army".
On New Year's Eve in 2020, the medical team formed by the Naval Military Medical University went to Wuhan, the Jiangcheng city where the new crown pneumonia epidemic was raging, without hesitation.
The navy medical team battled the virus day and night, demonstrating their unyielding loyalty to the party and the people.
"Pioneer in White" Xie Weifen, "Hardcore Head Nurse" Chen Jing, "Legend Girl" Sun Qing... The faces of the navy who sacrificed their lives to charge are engraved in the memory of countless Chinese people.
The People's Navy is loyal to the party, and the ship travels thousands of miles without getting lost.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, especially the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Navy Party Committee has always insisted on building a strong navy ideologically and politically, fully implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, especially the important instructions on building the navy, continuously enhancing the "Four Consciousness", and strengthening the "Four Consciousness". Self-confidence", achieve "two maintenance", implement the responsibility system of the chairman of the Military Commission, formulate and issue the "Opinions on Strengthening the Political Work of the Navy in the New Era", and carry out in-depth study and education on the topic of "Three Stresses and Three Rectifications" in party committees above the regiment for five consecutive years , deepen the comprehensive and strict governance of the party, build a strong online ideological and public opinion position, ensure that the army is highly centralized, unified, pure and consolidated, and resolutely achieve absolute loyalty, absolute purity, and absolute reliability.
The navy party committee made a special decision, and the organs jointly issued 4 documents to summarize, improve and specify important matters such as the commanding position of the political chief officer of the ship, no additional commanders will be assigned to perform tasks on a single ship and a single ship, and the setting of the temporary party committee of the ship (formation). Norm, and further promote the political design and institutional arrangement of the party's command gun to the end.
Faith is the sharpest weapon.
The officers and soldiers of the navy always take the banner of the party as the banner, the direction of the party as the direction, and the will of the party as the will.
Transformation, the only way to become strong in Haitu
In the more than 100 years from 1840 to 1949, the world powers invaded China 479 times by sea.
"Prosper toward the sea, but decline against the sea. If the sea cannot be controlled, it must be controlled by the sea." This is an unforgettable lesson that history has taught the Chinese nation.
In April 2018, the Central Military Commission organized a large-scale military parade in the South China Sea, and President Xi solemnly issued a great call to "build a world-class navy in an all-round way".
The Navy takes transformation and construction as the top priority, and refines President Xi's strategic plan to form a clear and specific target map, road map, and construction map.
In a certain sea area, the deck of the Liaoning ship is as busy as usual. The first batch of carrier-based aircraft pilots trained by the Navy's "growth model" are undergoing aircraft carrier qualification certification. They are directly trained from the pilot students recruited in high schools, with an average age of only 20 years old. .
Zhang Yuliang was the first to fly the fighter plane from far to near, with the tail hook firmly hanging on the blocking cable and successfully completing the assessment and certification.
This is a highlight moment for Zhang Yuliang, and it is also a historic moment for the transformation and construction of the navy.
Breakthroughs from army teaching to college training are self-evident to the construction of the combat capability of the aircraft carrier formation system. All of this is "to catch up with the wave of new military reforms in the world and to speed up the construction of new forces in new areas."
New areas and new quality forces represent the development trend of military technology and combat methods, and are a new growth point for combat effectiveness.
On April 23, 2021, the day was warm and windy at a military port in Sanya, Hainan, and the three main battleships of the navy—the Long March 18, the Dalian ship, and the Hainan ship were handed over and commissioned.
The delivery of the three national weapons at the same time created a new speed for the entry of new ships of the People's Navy.
In recent years, new equipment and cutting-edge weapons have continued to be installed in the navy, and netizens have vividly compared them to "dumplings" and "pan pancakes".
The heavy weapons of the great powers have appeared one after another, which is dizzying.
The first domestically-made aircraft carrier Shandong, new strategic nuclear submarines, 10,000-ton destroyers, amphibious assault ships, and comprehensive supply ships were intensively listed, ship-based fighter jets were delivered in batches, early warning aircraft and ship-based helicopters were added to the family, and new anti-submarine patrol aircraft were added. The shortcomings of the People's Navy's anti-submarine warfare have been solved... Through the "military hot search lists", a modern People's Navy led by the fourth-generation equipment and the third-generation equipment as the main body is being formed.
Xu Ying, who had completed the first night landing in a plane, is now the deputy captain of the Shandong ship.
From an ordinary pilot to a carrier-based fighter pilot, to commanding an aircraft carrier to cross the ocean, Xu Ying has achieved self-transcendence many times in changing runways.
Xu Ying's successful transformation through cross-ship rotation training, cross-service exchanges, and inter-professional change of posts is a typical result of the Navy's accelerated transformation and personnel training.
A Marine Corps brigade light machine infantry company has experienced more than 300 battles during the war years, and 52 first-class heroes emerged, and were awarded the honorary titles of "Young Pioneer Company" and "Liangshan Battle Hero Company".
From land to sea, from motorcycle to amphibious, the organization, equipment, mission and tasks are completely different. The new field obliges the old company after the transfer to make a fundamental change to complete the "leap to new quality".
Aiming at new quality and new areas to achieve leapfrog development.
The newly formed Marine Corps has a steady pace of transformation and construction. The training footprint not only covers the mountains and rivers of the motherland, but also leaves training coordinates all over the world with the track of Chinese ships. Elite troops.
From small boats to giant ships, from near-shore to deep blue, from individual soldiers to systems, as aviation moves from shore-based to ship-based, and marines to global operations, the transformation of the navy has achieved more leapfrog development in the process of non-breakage and convergence.
Victory, with the strength of Wu Zhige's ability
"XX National Military Aircraft, I am the Chinese Naval Air Force. You are approaching China's airspace, please leave immediately!" Over the waters of the South China Sea, Chen Chuanbin, a pilot of a brigade of the Naval Air Force in the Southern Theater Command, drove a fighter plane to drive away foreign military fighter planes.
This is a tense confrontation in the airspace of the South China Sea not long ago.
For naval aviation, such scenarios have become the norm.
History does not repeat, but how similar.
On April 1, 2001, in a confrontation like this, "sea and air guard" Wang Wei was forced to parachute into the sea after being hit by a US plane to defend the airspace of the motherland.
For 21 years, the soulful cry of "81192, please return to sail" has continued to echo between the sea and the sky.
In the face of threats, the only way to win is by force.
Today, in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, and the Taiwan Strait, warships patrol day and night, and fighter planes patrol back and forth constantly, in order to guard the peace of the motherland's sea and air and the reunion of thousands of homes.
Foreign ships and planes often provoked, and sometimes even turned on the fire control radar.
In the face of sovereignty, we are tit-for-tat and will never allow reckless actions.
"If you can fight, you can stop the war. If you are ready to fight, you may not have to fight. The more you can't fight, the more likely you will be beaten." This is the dialectics of war and peace, and we must keep it in mind.
Victory over war is the fundamental value of an army.
Being able to fight and stop fighting comes from the high standards and strict requirements of actual combat training.
The Party Committee of the Navy has always adhered to taking preparation for war as the top priority, keeping an eye on changes in technology, warfare, and opponents, vigorously promoting the coupling of combat training, system training, and scientific and technological training, accelerating the transformation and upgrading of military training, and comprehensively improving maritime deterrence and security. combat capability.
Walking into the command hall of the navy organ, one after another battle situation map comes into view, and the wave of military training and preparations in the thousands of miles of sea and border is higher than wave.
Focusing on the characteristics of joint operations under the conditions of informatization, we will promote the construction of a maritime power system focusing on new areas and new-quality forces such as aircraft carrier formations, nuclear submarines, and amphibious combat formations with high quality, and accelerate the integration of distant seas and distant areas and new types of military forces into the combat system. Shorten the combat power generation cycle.
A series of tactics training methods such as "ability-based basic training and task-based real-case training" have been widely promoted in the army, and a series of exercises based on difficult and complex conditions have been launched one after another.
Today, the training of naval ships out of the island chain has become the norm, and the systematic training of aircraft carrier formations has continued to advance. Naval ships and aircraft in the three major war zones regularly march into the ocean, setting a number of records such as the largest number of participating troops, the most complete training elements, and the most difficult attack and defense.
The value pursuit of peace and shared destiny
In early 2022, an environmental disaster caused by a volcanic eruption swept across the South Pacific island country of Tonga, and the local people suffered from the disaster.
On January 31, at the request of the Kingdom of Tonga, the Navy's Wuzhishan and Chaganhu ships formed a formation to deliver all the urgently needed supplies of more than 1,400 tons to the disaster area in time.
Bravely shoulder the responsibilities of a major country and fulfill international obligations.
A peaceful, open and confident Chinese navy has always been active in going global and accelerating its deep integration with the world.
On April 23, 2019, in Qingdao Port, Shandong Province, a military parade was held to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Navy. 18 ships from 13 countries including Russia, Thailand, and Australia participated.
The next day, at a high-level seminar on multi-national naval activities, the heads of naval delegations from 61 countries discussed maritime security plans, discussed naval cooperation and friendship, and sought maritime peace around the initiative of "Building a Community of Shared Future at Sea" proposed by President Xi. Good policy.
Committed to building a community with a shared future for mankind and a shared future for the oceans, the "friend circle" of the People's Navy, the Peace Division, is getting bigger and bigger, and its voyage is getting farther and farther.
On December 26, 2008, the first naval escort taskforce consisting of the Wuhan, Haikou and Weishanhu ships opened the "Era of Escort" of the Chinese Navy.
Over the past 13 years, the People's Navy has dispatched more than 100 ships in 40 batches to participate in escort missions in the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia, completed 1,480 batches of escort missions for more than 7,000 Chinese and foreign ships, rescued and escorted nearly 100 ships of various types, of which foreign ships accounted for 50%. above.
On the vast ocean, the escort formations, one after another, are China's great love and friendship to the world, and a window of peace open to all mankind.
The support base in Djibouti has been completed and put into use, and it has provided effective guarantee for naval escort, peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance, and maintaining the security of international strategic channels.
The People's Navy is also delivering great love with practical actions.
In November 2013, the super typhoon "Haiyan" hit the Philippines, and the Chinese navy hospital ship "Peace Ark" rushed to rescue; in April 2021, the Indonesian navy "Nangara" submarine crashed, and the Chinese navy sent ships to the relevant The waters assist Indonesia in carrying out rescue operations.
On the channel of spreading great love, the hospital ship "Peace Ark" has gone abroad for 9 times, sailing more than 240,000 nautical miles, serving more than 230,000 person-times in 43 countries and regions, and vigorously promoting the "humanity, fraternity and dedication". The spirit of the cross draws a "heart-shaped track" on the world map.
Even in this sudden outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese navy has not flinched, sending many doctors abroad to fight the epidemic and actively providing international humanitarian services.
A series of actions made the world see that the increasingly powerful People's Navy is not only defending the peace of the motherland at sea and air, but also making important contributions to world peace.
On the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Navy, the ships at sea are like rainbows, the eagles in the air are soaring, and the iron armor on the ground is rushing.
The dream is ahead, the road is at the foot, and the deep blue is calling.
Looking at the century-old goal of the founding of the army, the officers and soldiers of the Navy in the new era yearn for it and their blood boils. The figure in front of them running hard is the grand cause of building a world-class navy in an all-round way.
Mo Xiaoliang, Sun Fei, China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Zheng Tianran Source: China Youth Daily
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