The Party's Vision for Building a Strong Military for a New Era

Efforts to build strong armed forces need to be guided by a forward-looking vision, and proceed on a solid theoretical basis. Since the Party’s 18th National Congress, Xi Jinping as the leader of the Party and commander-in-chief of the armed forces has proposed a series of major policy decisions as part of an overall strategy for building a strong military for a new era. He has in particular laid out our Party’s vision that guides us on a new journey to remake our military, an unprecedented effort of historic significance that will propel our military to further greatness.

The report to the 19th CPC National Congress underlines the importance of this vision to the efforts to strengthen our defense capability. The vision calls for:

? affirming the leadership role of the Party in building a strong, well-disciplined military able to fight and win major wars;

? keeping a strategic focus on combat capability and readiness, innovative measures, institutional strengthening, development of a more efficient, integrated command structure, and military-civilian integration;

? staying true to the founding mission of the people’s armed forces;

? implementing further reform;

? promoting scientific and technological innovation to upgrade our fighting power;

? enhancing rule-based governance of the military;

? staying focused on what the military is supposed to do without being distracted; and

? implementing an effective talent strategy.

This vision is an important component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. It answers the basic questions about under whose command our people’s armed forces should be, how the Party’s leadership role – which is the soul of the military – can be strengthened, why we have to build a strong military and how we can achieve this goal, and what we should be prepared for and how we can strengthen combat capability. It enriches our Party’s guiding principles for governance of the military, and guides us toward new horizons.

新時代黨的強軍思想

建設一支強大的人民軍隊，必須有先進思想引領、科學理論指導。中共十八大以來，習近平作為黨的領袖、軍隊統帥，著眼實現中國夢強軍夢，作出一系列重大決策部署，創立了新時代黨的強軍思想，引領軍隊開啟強軍興軍新征程，推動軍隊面貌發生前所未有的歷史性變化。中共十九大報告明確提出，確立新時代黨的強軍思想在國防和軍隊建設中的指導地位。這一思想主要包含以下內容：一是“建設一支聽黨指揮、能打勝仗、作風優良的人民軍隊”的強軍目標；二是更加注重聚焦實戰，更加注重創新驅動，更加注重體系建設，更加注重集約高效，更加注重軍民融合等“五個更加注重”戰略指導；三是永葆人民軍隊的本色初心；四是向深化國防和軍隊改革要動力；五是堅持向科技創新要戰斗力；六是全面提升國防和軍隊建設的法治化水平；七是始終聚焦軍隊的主責主業；八是夯實強軍興軍的人才支撐。

新時代黨的強軍思想，是習近平新時代中國特色社會主義思想的重要組成部分，深刻回答了新時代“人民軍隊聽誰指揮、怎樣鑄牢軍魂”“為什么強軍、怎樣強軍”、“打什么仗、怎樣打勝仗”等基本問題，豐富發展了中國共產黨建軍治軍的思想和方針原則，指引著人民軍隊的強軍新征程。