Safeguard national security, sovereignty and territorial integrity,

Create a peaceful international environment and a harmonious social environment for national development and provide a strong security guarantee.

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The new expansion of the functions and tasks of the people's army

The new historical mission of our army shows that its functions have been expanded and its tasks are more arduous. We must profoundly understand and accurately grasp the scientific connotation of our new historical mission.

In the new century and new stage, the army should provide an important strength guarantee for the party to consolidate its ruling position. The party's ruling position is related to the realization of the party's historical task and the completion of the party's ruling mission, and to the long-term stability of the country and the fundamental interests of the people. Under the new situation, maintaining our party's long-term ruling position has encountered various practical tests. As a people's army led by the Party, our army shoulders a sacred mission and plays an important role in consolidating the Party's ruling position, ensuring that the socialist red mountains and rivers will never change color and safeguarding the fundamental interests of the people. As long as our party closely relies on the people of the whole country and firmly grasps the people's army, it will be rock-solid and indestructible in the face of any complicated situation and challenge. From the internal relationship between the construction and development of the people's army and the consolidation of the party's ruling position, we should deeply understand the glorious and arduous historical mission of our army in the new century and new stage, regard upholding the party's absolute leadership over the army as the primary issue of our army's construction and development, unswervingly adhere to the fundamental principles and systems of the party's absolute leadership over the army, and constantly strengthen the revolutionization, modernization and regularization of the army to ensure that our army will always become the backbone of the party's consolidation of its ruling position.

In the new century and new stage, the army should provide strong security guarantee for maintaining the important strategic opportunity period of national development. The Chinese nation has experienced the humiliation of foreign invasion and civil strife for a hundred years and the arduous exploration of national rejuvenation, and has ushered in an important strategic opportunity period in which it can make great achievements in the first 20 years of the new century. The CPC Central Committee keenly grasped the opportunity and made a series of major strategic decisions to seize the opportunity and accelerate development. Our army always takes the task of the party as its own responsibility and takes safeguarding the fundamental interests of the people as its purpose. To safeguard and make good use of the period of strategic opportunities is to safeguard national security, defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, create a peaceful international environment and a harmonious social environment for national development, and provide a strong security guarantee. The functions and tasks of our army extend from safeguarding national survival security to safeguarding national development opportunities, which profoundly reflects the requirements of developing the party's top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country for army building. It is necessary to further recognize the position and role of the military in safeguarding and promoting national development and earnestly shoulder the historical responsibility of maintaining an important period of strategic opportunities.

In the new century and new stage, the army should provide strong strategic support for safeguarding national interests. The army is an important part of the state machine, and it is the mission and responsibility of the army to safeguard national interests. With the development of times, practice and science and technology, a country's security and development interests are expanding from traditional fields to new ones. Traditional national security pays more attention to physical space such as territory, territorial sea and airspace; In today's national security, we should not only defend our territory, but also pay attention to all-round security, including ocean, space, electromagnetic and other intangible spaces. Our army must pay close attention to the new changes in the connotation of national security, actively adapt to the new requirements of this new change for the army, consciously put the interests of safeguarding national security and development above all else, earnestly improve its strategic ability to safeguard maritime security, effectively guard against security threats from space, and safeguard electromagnetic space security and the security of other countries.

In the new century and new stage, the army should play an important role in safeguarding world peace and promoting common development. China adheres to the path of peaceful development, strives for a peaceful international environment to develop itself, and uses its own development to safeguard world peace and promote common development. However, we should be soberly aware that to achieve peace and development, we must have strong military strength as the backing. As China's comprehensive national strength continues to increase and its position in international affairs continues to rise, the role of the people's army must also adapt to it. Not only should we always safeguard and promote the peaceful development of our country, but we should also actively safeguard and promote the common development of the world; We should not only perform our duties of safeguarding national sovereignty and security, but also play an important role in participating in international peacekeeping, rescue and anti-terrorism operations. This requires us to promote army building with a world perspective and strive to build our army into a military force commensurate with China's status and our new historical mission.

Promoting army building and reform closely around fulfilling the new historical mission

Fulfilling the new historical mission of our army has put forward new and higher requirements for the modernization of the army, the preparation for military struggle and the use of military power. We must draw and promote all work with the new historical mission of our army and constantly raise the all-round construction of our army to a new level.

Firmly establish ideas and concepts that are suitable for the new mission and the requirements of the times and practical development. Adhering to the Party's ideological line, emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times, and keeping ideological concepts up with the ever-changing objective reality are the keys for our army to maintain its advanced nature and effectively perform its sacred duties and missions. In the new century and new stage, facing the new situation and tasks, the whole army must enhance its sense of mission and hardship, pay close attention to the development and changes of the international strategic pattern and China's security situation, and always be prepared for danger in times of peace. Firmly establish political awareness, overall awareness and strategic awareness, be good at observing and handling military issues from a political height, and be good at planning army building with an eye on the overall interests of the country and the overall development. Firmly establish Scientific Outlook on Development, strengthen the awareness of quality and efficiency, and pay attention to the coordinated development, all-round promotion and overall improvement of army building. Firmly establish the concept of seeking truth from facts, pioneering and innovating, thoroughly study and solve major practical problems faced by army building and military struggle preparation, solve contradictions and difficulties with reform ideas and methods, and constantly create a new situation in all work. Firmly establish the concept of studying hard, being good at learning and being good at re-learning, learn the latest achievements of the party's theoretical innovation, learn modern military knowledge, high-tech knowledge, international knowledge, and social science knowledge such as economy, history and law, and constantly enrich your mind, broaden your horizons and increase your talents.

We will accelerate the military transformation with China characteristics and preparations for military struggle, and constantly improve our strategic planning, scientific management and operational command capabilities. The key for our army to adapt to the new situation and shoulder the new mission is to take root in the new practice of military reform and preparation for military struggle with China characteristics and vigorously improve the quality and skills of officers and men of the whole army. According to the new characteristics of military struggle and army building in today's era, we should focus on promoting the all-round construction and long-term development of the army and comprehensively improve the strategic literacy and strategic planning ability of leading cadres at all levels. It is necessary to effectively change the traditional management mode, actively introduce advanced and applicable management methods, technologies and means in various fields of army building, establish and improve the scientific management mechanism, and constantly improve the scientific management ability of leading cadres and the level of army regularization. It is necessary to put military training in a strategic position, insist on training from difficulties to actual needs, temper troops in an environment and conditions similar to actual combat, and constantly improve the ability of leading cadres to command information warfare. It is necessary to clarify the key and difficult issues in the preparation for military reform and military struggle with China characteristics, focus on implementation, grasp difficulties and seek breakthroughs, improve the practical skills of leading cadres in grasping key points, solving difficult problems, winning battles and promoting development, and lead the troops to complete various tasks.

Attach great importance to grasping the grass roots and laying the foundation work, and improve the starting point and standard of all-round construction of the army. The basis of all the work and combat effectiveness of the army is at the grassroots level. To fulfill the new historical mission, we must comprehensively consolidate the foundation of army building in accordance with the new starting point and standards. We should earnestly correct the concept, thinking, method and style of grasping grass-roots construction, truly plan and guide grass-roots construction according to the requirements of fulfilling the historical mission, measure and test the work of grasping grass-roots construction with the actual results of fulfilling the historical mission, further standardize the work order of grasping grass-roots construction, and establish a scientific working mechanism of grasping grass-roots construction. At present, we should take the general requirements of "five sentences" and President Hu's important instructions as the guidance, take the Outline of Army Grassroots Construction as the basis, take improving combat effectiveness as the fundamental starting point and foothold, focus on the construction of party branches, cadres and backbone teams, take regular work as the basis, and take solving the outstanding contradictions and problems that have plagued grassroots construction for a long time as the breakthrough point, so as to comprehensively build and consolidate the foundation, promote and promote the sustained and healthy development of grassroots construction, and comprehensively improve the quality of army construction.

Effectively strengthen and improve ideological and political work to ensure that army building always advances in the correct political direction. Strong ideological and political work is an important guarantee to complete the historical mission. We must always put ideological and political construction in the first place in all construction, persist in arming the whole army with the theoretical innovation achievements of the party, and constantly strengthen the consciousness of military soul. In view of the new environment and test faced by ideological and political work, we should thoroughly study the influence of changes in the composition of officers and men and the social and family environment on their thoughts, psychology and behavior, actively innovate and improve the content, forms and means of ideological and political work, and effectively enhance the pertinence and effectiveness. It is necessary to strengthen the capacity building of military party organizations in accordance with the requirements of advanced nature, constantly enhance the creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness of party organizations at all levels, do a good job in the educational activities to maintain the advanced nature of Communist party member, and guide the vast number of party member to become a vanguard and model in practicing the "Theory of Three Represents" theory, devoting themselves to promoting military reform with China characteristics and preparing for military struggle, and resolutely fulfill the sacred mission entrusted by the party and the people.