National defense is to safeguard national interests. First, we must always give top priority to safeguarding the country’s sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and security, and regard defending the motherland, resisting aggression, safeguarding unity, and opposing secession as national defense. The starting point and foothold of the policy; the second is to provide a peaceful and stable internal and external environment for the country's reform, opening up and development.

Significance: 1. Strengthening national defense education and establishing the concept of national defense are major events related to the strength of the country and the rise and fall of the nation. Throughout the ages, some sovereign countries and far-sighted politicians and military strategists in the world have attached great importance to national defense construction and the development of national defense education for their citizens. They believe that any idea that ignores national defense education is tantamount to suicide. ?

In China, the accomplished rulers, educators and military strategists of all ages also attach great importance to national defense construction and the ideological education of the people to defend the country through martial arts, and regard it as the foundation of national security. The way of the state. "Soldiers are important matters of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival. We must be aware of them." "Be prepared for danger in times of peace," "Be prepared for danger." "Danger", "A country cannot stand without defense, and the people are insecure without soldiers" are the crystallization of his glorious national defense thoughts. Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the great revolutionary forerunner, had unique insights into cultivating the people's concept of national defense and national spirit. He said, "What is the spirit of the so-called "consolidating the country without relying on the dangers of mountains and rivers, and threatening the world without relying on the benefits of military revolution?" The general idea of ??this passage is that whether a country's national defense is consolidated should not only be measured by "the dangers of mountains and rivers and the benefits of military revolution", but should be judged by the level of consciousness and mental state of its citizens. Building and consolidating the unbreakable spiritual defense line of the entire people is the fundamental measure to ensure national security. Numerous historical facts at home and abroad have also proved that if a country or a nation wants to survive and develop and effectively defend against invasion by foreign enemies, its spiritual defense is often as important as its material defense. When a country's spiritual defense line is consolidated, it can not be alarmed by external disturbances in peacetime, carry out construction steadily, and be able to stand upright in international affairs; in wartime, it can unite the hearts of the people and work together. , to win the war. National defense is the shield of national survival, and the concept of national defense is the soul of national survival. The strength of citizens' concept of national defense is related to the strength of the country and the rise and fall of the nation. Party and government cadres must take the lead in enhancing their concepts and awareness of national defense.

2. National defense education has a huge role in promoting economic construction. On the one hand, national defense construction cannot be carried out in isolation from economic construction. It must be based on economic construction. Without the foundation of economic construction, national defense construction will become water without a source, a tree without roots, and it will be difficult to move forward. On the other hand, if economic construction is not guaranteed by corresponding national defense strength, the development of economic construction will not be sustainable. This is not only in line with the principles of Marxism, but also the conclusion of our country’s revolutionary practice. Looking at historical facts, there are many successful experiences in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, where economic construction and national defense construction are compatible, complementary, mutually reinforcing, and develop side by side: the horses of Genghis Khan’s army are the most useful tools for economic construction and armed struggle. During the rise of capitalism, European ships were used as weapons for both foreign trade and cross-sea operations. The contemporary U.S. defense economy is compatible with and mutually reinforcing between the military and civilians. ?

Currently, economic development is the central task of our country. Our country's domestic and foreign affairs have made corresponding adjustments and changes in accordance with this task. There is no doubt that national defense construction must also adapt to this change and obey and serve economic construction. As an important part of national defense construction, national defense education must also adapt to this change and actively promote economic construction. This requires changing the old concepts of "national defense is fighting" and "national defense education is combat readiness education", and turning national defense education into a service that not only serves a just war and maintains world peace, but also cultivates qualified talents, comprehensively improves people's quality, and promotes national Economic construction services come up. In this way, the path of our country's national defense education will be broader, and it will be more closely aligned with the needs of the times, and therefore its vitality will be stronger. ?

Of course, it goes without saying that national defense education requires manpower, material and financial resources. Today, when the socialist market economy is developing, if we do not see this, we cannot count the economic accounts of national defense education. Spend less and do more; do more without spending money. This is an issue that cadres at all levels should consider. However, if we only calculate the economic accounts, we only see that national defense education costs people, money, and materials, but not the political accounts, we cannot see the social benefits of national defense education, and we cannot see the role of national defense education in promoting economic construction. , is also undesirable. ?

As we all know, the core of national defense education is to cultivate citizens’ patriotism, national responsibility and revolutionary heroism. If any nation wants to revitalize and society wants to change, it needs a spirit of the times that matches it. It needs to inspire people and gather strength to overcome all difficulties and obstacles and achieve the great goal of struggle. For more than half a century, the Chinese people, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, have fought bravely and bravely, and have developed a sense of national responsibility and a spirit of patriotism, a spirit of revolution and hard work, strict discipline and a spirit of self-sacrifice, hard work, selflessness and The spirit of putting others before ourselves, the spirit of overcoming all enemies and overcoming all difficulties, the spirit of persisting in revolutionary optimism, the spirit of overcoming all difficulties to win, etc., are the powerful spiritual power of our nation, the advantage of our nation, and the national defense of the Chinese nation. The essence of consciousness.

Today, as our country is undergoing comprehensive reforms and building a socialist market economy, are these spirits outdated and no longer needed? In fact, reforming and building a market economy requires taking more risks and overcoming more difficulties. Under the conditions of reform and market economy, it is even more necessary to promote the above-mentioned revolutionary spirit and to promote economic construction. Carrying forward and carrying forward the above-mentioned revolutionary spirit remains the spiritual motivation and discipline guarantee for us to overcome various difficulties. Therefore, vigorously carrying out national defense education and cultivating citizens' patriotic consciousness is important for rectifying people's morals and strengthening the national soul, for inspiring the national spirit, improving national quality, stimulating people's sense of urgency, responsibility and mission in building the motherland, and enhancing the cohesion and centripetal force of the nation. This will effectively promote our country's economic construction and continuously meet people's material and cultural needs, which has an immeasurable role. ?

3. National defense education is a necessary link in cultivating qualified party and government cadres. National defense knowledge is a knowledge group that covers everything from astronomy to geography, from internal affairs to diplomacy, from natural science to social science, from basic science to technical science and applied science. It is rich in content and complete in categories. And generally speaking, countries around the world attach great importance to applying cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements to national defense construction, and concentrate many outstanding talents in national defense construction positions. Therefore, national defense knowledge often embodies the latest achievements of contemporary science and technology and represents the development direction of advanced productive forces. The U.S. Star Wars plan and the weapons and equipment used in the Gulf War reflect the new trend of high-tech development in the world. Therefore, learning, mastering and applying national defense knowledge and national defense science and technology will help broaden people's horizons, improve people's knowledge structure, improve the scientific and technological level of the entire country and nation, and enhance the strength of international competition. As we all know, in today's era, a party and government cadre without national defense knowledge, or in other words, if the knowledge structure of a party and government cadre does not have national defense knowledge, it is imperfect. Why do some countries require that they have served in the military when running for president? Mostly we consider the problem from the perspective of human knowledge structure.

Through military training and national defense education for party and government cadres, their political stance has been strengthened, organizational discipline has been strengthened, their bodies have been tempered, and their revolutionary spirit of enduring hardship and not being afraid of difficulties has been cultivated, as well as their mutual respect for each other. The collectivist spirit of unity and friendship, mutual help, caring for the collective, and safeguarding collective honor; learning certain military knowledge and skills, and expanding the scope of knowledge, all of which strongly illustrate that national defense education is modern and qualified for the needs of the party and the country The cultivation of party and government cadres has become an indispensable and important link.