Author: reporter Liu Xiaobing, reporter Mo Xiaoliang and Sun Fei

　　"Guangming Daily" (April 23, 2022 Edition 04)

　　On the ship island of Shandong, Xu Ying, the deputy captain who commanded the sailing of the giant ship, silently sketched the direction of the take-off of the J-15 carrier-based fighter... 10 years ago, he joined the Navy's carrier-based aviation unit as an ordinary fighter pilot.

In the waters of the South China Sea, the 10,000-ton destroyer Yan'an cut through the waves, and the captain Li Jinwei simply and neatly issued a password... 10 years ago, he was the deputy captain of the Guangzhou ship, which did not have a vertical launch system.

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 brigade... 10 years ago, she joined the army with a pen from a local university and became an "amphibious". A recruit of Overlord Flower".

　　The 10 years that these naval officers and soldiers have struggled and grown 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. It is also the cause of the party and the country since the 18th National Congress 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 and resolutely around the grand goal of building a world-class navy in an all-round way. No matter in terms of thinking, weapons and equipment, and training models, it has achieved leapfrog development. Really advanced into the dark blue.

　　Loyalty - the belief background of the People's Navy

　　Qingdao, Shandong, Naval Museum, a piece of shrapnel taken from the brain of "people's hero" Mai Xiande, lying quietly in the showcase.

The shrapnel is speechless, but it shows the loyalty and belief of the "Iron Warrior".

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 heart of every naval officer and soldier. belief.

　　On New Year's Eve 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.

"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, the Navy Party Committee has always insisted on building a strong navy ideologically and politically, fully implemented Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the military, especially the important instructions on building the navy, formulated and issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Political Work of the Navy in the New Era", and further promoted the comprehensive development of the Navy. Strictly govern the party, build a strong online ideological and public opinion position, and resolutely achieve absolute loyalty, absolute purity, and absolute reliability.

The navy party committee also made a special decision to summarize, improve, and specifically regulate important matters such as the commanding position of the chief political officer of the ship and the setting of the temporary party committee of the ship (formation).

　　Transformation - the only way to become strong in Haitu

　　In April 2018, the Central Military Commission organized a large-scale maritime military parade in the South China Sea. President Xi solemnly issued a great call to "strive to build the People's Navy into 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 by the Navy from high school pilots recruited. The average age is only over 20 age.

The passing of their assessment and certification marks a historic moment in the transformation and construction of the navy, marking the complete completion of the Chinese Navy's carrier-based aircraft pilot growth and training links, and its significance to the construction of the combat capability of the aircraft carrier formation system is self-evident.

　　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, the navy with new equipment and cutting-edge weapons has continued to set new records, and a modern People's Navy led by the fourth-generation equipment and the third-generation equipment is taking shape.

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.

　　"XX National Military Aircraft, I am the Chinese Naval Air Force. You are approaching China's airspace, please leave immediately!" Over a certain sea area in the South China Sea, Chen Chuanbin, a pilot of a certain naval aviation brigade in the Southern Theater Command, drove a fighter jet to force a foreign military fighter jet away.

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.

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 are cruising day and night, and fighter planes are constantly patrolling back and forth, in order to guard the peace of the motherland at sea and air and the reunion of thousands of families.

　　Peace - The Value Pursuit of Shared Destiny

　　Earlier this year, an environmental disaster triggered by a volcanic eruption swept the South Pacific island nation of Tonga.

On New Year's Eve, 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.

　　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 120 ships in 40 batches to participate in escort missions in the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia, completed more than 1,480 escort missions for more than 7,000 Chinese and foreign ships, rescued and escorted nearly 100 ships of various types, of which 50 were foreign ships. %above.

The "Peace Ark" hospital ship has gone abroad for 9 times, sailed more than 240,000 nautical miles, served 43 countries and regions, and served more than 230,000 person-times. A heart-shaped track.

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.

　　(Our reporter Liu Xiaobing, our correspondent Mo Xiaoliang and Sun Fei)