China Broadcasting Network December 30 news Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, recently proposed at an important military meeting that we should focus on strengthening the spiritual pillars of officers and soldiers and vigorously cultivate "loyalty". The core values ??of contemporary revolutionary soldiers are "loyal to the party, loving the people, serving the country, devoting themselves to the mission, and advocating honor."

1. Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in war

2. The army is a melting pot and the army is a university

3. It is not a good soldier who does not want to be a general. Soldiers

The People's Liberation Army serves the Party and the people,

serves the country and contributes to the construction of three local civilizations

Absolutely obey command``

Be loyal to the party, be loyal to the country, be loyal to the people, keep the mission in mind, and advocate honor.

Protect the family and the country

“Be loyal to the party, love the people, serve the country, and dedicate yourself to the mission "Advocating honor" are the core values ??of contemporary military personnel!

Listen to the party’s command and serve the people bravely and fight

Listen to the party’s command and go through fire and water to serve the people

Dedication··

I would rather shed my own blood than Let the motherland lose every inch of its land",

"Military uniform is an honor, but also a responsibility"...

●What kind of values ????have, there are what kind of standards of conduct. The militaries of many countries in the world have their own core values. The construction of the core values ??of contemporary Chinese military personnel is an important issue in fulfilling the historical mission entrusted to our military by the party and the people.

●Constructing the core values ??of contemporary Chinese military personnel. Based on six factors: political, noble, contemporary, functional, national, and universal, its core values ??can be summarized as: mission, loyalty, discipline, and sacrifice. Mission is the core, loyalty is the premise, and discipline is the condition. Sacrifice is a requirement.

To ensure that an army has a high fighting spirit and strong combat effectiveness, it must understand what its core values ??are, because all behaviors of soldiers ultimately depend on the core values ??they hold. Values. Therefore, establishing and adhering to the core values ??of contemporary Chinese military personnel is crucial for our military to fulfill its historical mission in the new century.

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Core values ??are the most basic, core and stable part of the entire value system. They are a set of fundamental principles that a person, a group, and even a country and a nation have long adhered to. Core values ??are intangible and unchangeable. It has coercive force, but once it is accepted by the actor, it will enter the unconscious and form an inner influence on the actor's value judgment and behavioral direction.

In the past, when we received ideological and political education, no one had it. Tell me what core values ??are, especially since the education received by officers and soldiers during the war was not carried out in the name of core values. Our army still has a high fighting spirit and strong combat effectiveness. Why should we propose to build core values ??for soldiers today? This is determined by the inherent laws of military development and the requirements of the times.

First, the impact of changes in the times and social transformation, and the expansion of military missions determine the construction of core values. To understand the problem from the perspective of casting, our army faces two challenges: one is how to shape the mainstream spirit in an era of diverse values; the other is that the military's mission and tasks have been expanded, and it is necessary to ensure that missions and tasks are fulfilled with high standards. , it is necessary to improve the hard strike capability while stimulating the fighting spirit of officers and soldiers, which undoubtedly requires the support of core values ??including ideals and beliefs.

Second, the audience's cognitive ability and cognitive rules. Development and change promote the construction of core values. People's understanding always rises from perceptual to rational until it becomes conscious. During the war years, due to the low cultural level of officers and soldiers, their understanding and acceptance of political ideas mainly came from the words and deeds of those around them.

Today, with the diversification of social values ??and the generally enhanced receptive and rational thinking abilities of officers and soldiers, only by strengthening rational guidance based on perceptual knowledge can inexhaustible spiritual power be generated.

Third, the basic laws of spiritual shaping and the scientific process of ideological and political education require the construction of core values. In order for an idea or spirit to be more widely recognized and play a role in guiding behavior, it is very important to express it in a way that is clear in connotation, easy to understand, concise and easy to remember, and constant. . The emphasis on building the core values ????of contemporary Chinese military personnel is precisely to give full play to its value function more prominently, further stimulate the fighting spirit of officers and soldiers, and better fulfill the historical mission of our army in the new century and new stage.

The core values ??of our military and those of Western countries have different characteristics.

The militaries of major countries in the world basically have clear core values. In comparison, the US military attaches more importance to the construction of core values. Even the services and academies have their own core values. For example, the famous West Point Military Academy is "responsibility, honor, and country." These core values ??are part of their education and training to promote the formation of character and the cultivation of fighting spirit in officers and soldiers. For another example, the French army emphasizes "discipline, loyalty, and dedication," while the Indian army advocates "restraint, self-respect, discipline, and collective spirit," and so on. These are all for the military to perform their functions, and their main characteristics are as follows: First, the political content contained in the core values ??is reflected in the way of patriotism, love for the system and love for life. The political ideology instilled in the military of Western countries is generally not reflected through party politics, but through patriotism, love for the system, and love for the way of life. Second, core values ??are filled with personal qualities and professional ethics requirements. Most militaries in Western countries implement professionalism, so they believe that the cultivation of professional ethics is the basis for the formation of core values, and accordingly they have established a large number of behavioral norms from the professional ethics level. Third, bring religious concepts into the scope of core values. It is a common practice in Western armies to use religious beliefs to inspire the fighting spirit of officers and soldiers. For example, 95% of the U.S. military is religious, and the U.S. military clearly states in its code of conduct for members of the armed forces: "I believe in God and the United States of America."

Although a clear concept of core values ??has not been proposed in the past, It does not mean that our military does not have core values ??in a substantial sense. The basic content of the core values ??that our military has long adhered to is reflected in the nature, purpose and tasks of our military regulated by the Constitution, laws and our military's political work regulations. Including: "Consolidate national defense, resist aggression, defend the motherland, defend the people's peaceful labor, participate in national construction, and strive to serve the people." "Unswervingly maintain the nature of the people's army, be loyal to the party, the people, the country, and Socialism." Adhere to "patriotism, collectivism, socialism and revolutionary heroism", etc. Its main characteristics are as follows: first, it is closely related to the specific tasks of each historical period and has a strong contemporary character. From the history of the growth of our army, we can clearly see that the core values ??of this army are closely linked to the goals established by the party. That is, the mission of the party is the mission of the army, and the pursuit of the party’s values ??is the direction of the army’s efforts. The core values ??are directly reflected in the phased tasks. Second, political ideas dominate the direction of core values. For example, during the Red Army period, "fight the local tyrants and divide the land", during the Anti-Japanese War, "all people resist Japan", during the Liberation War, "defeat Chiang Kai-shek and liberate the whole of China", during the War of Resistance Against U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, "resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, defend the homeland and defend the country", these are all based on class hatred. , national hatred as value judgment and value orientation, thus forming a unique political ecology. Third, it emphasizes the subordination of personal interests to collective interests, and the exchange of self-sacrifice and partial sacrifice for overall victory. This has something to do with China's traditional culture and the values ??of our party and our army. In a certain sense, the value concept of our party is to serve the people. The people's army under the absolute leadership of the party and its purpose is to achieve the goals set by the party. Its value judgments and value choices are undoubtedly completely consistent with the party.

The core values ??that contemporary Chinese soldiers should have

Abstract the values ??and political ideas followed by a group in accordance with the principles of simplicity, clarity, easy to remember, profoundness and large ideological capacity , forming core values ??is not an easy task. The difficulty is not mainly due to whether there has been a clear formulation or ideological accumulation in the past. The key lies in what concepts our core values ??are based on. Only by clarifying this point, the original Only the accumulated thoughts or spiritual essence can be easily grasped and abstracted. The author believes that six basic elements must be met to establish the core values ??of contemporary Chinese military personnel.

Political. The military is the category of the superstructure and safeguards the fundamental interests of the country and the people. Compared with the military of Western countries, a prominent feature of our military is that it has higher requirements for political quality. It has always positioned itself as "the party's army and the people's army". "the army, the army of a socialist country", clearly stipulates that the party's absolute leadership over the army must be upheld. This determines that the party's political philosophy must be reflected when establishing core values. Only in this way can we ensure that we do not deviate from the correct political direction.

Sublime. Since the core values ??belong to the most fundamental category of the spiritual world advocated by mainstream society, and the professional characteristics of the military determine that the fulfillment of its mission must be willing to sacrifice blood and life, therefore, there is no lofty spirit of dedication and self-sacrifice, and it only follows the rules of the market economy. The principles of equivalent exchange and maximization of interests will not gain strong spiritual support. Therefore, to ensure that the established core values ??are sufficient to support such sacrifices, lofty spiritual factors must be injected into the core values.

Contemporary. Core values ??adjust and resolve the most essential and lasting spiritual core of a single person or group, which determines that the establishment of core values ??should not be limited to periodic goals and tasks, but should focus on the fundamental functions and essential characteristics of the military. Nevertheless, to ensure that the core values ??established by our military are realistic and effective, it is obviously necessary to focus on the missions and tasks assigned by the ruling party within a certain period, that is, to reflect the goals, tasks and requirements of a period into the core values.

Functionality. Our army is an armed group under the absolute leadership of the party that serves to achieve political tasks. We cannot have independent tasks beyond the interests of the country and the nation. This army can only adhere to its functionality, position itself in functionality, and obey Only by focusing on functionality can we consciously resist the influence of erroneous ideological trends such as "non-partyization and non-politicization of the military" and "nationalization of the military" and always maintain the nature, true character and style of the people's military.

Nationality. Every nation has its own unique cultural traditions and spiritual accumulation. The establishment of a core value must be based on the cultural tradition of the nation. This is more important and prominent for a nation with a long cultural heritage and profound spiritual accumulation. In the long history of the Chinese nation, there is a kind of moral quality that has existed very prominently. This is righteousness, which means sacrificing one's life for benevolence, and forgetting oneself and one's family for the sake of the country. Therefore, the excellent cultural factors and spiritual traits flowing in the national blood should be reflected in the core values ??of contemporary soldiers.

Universality. The most distinctive line in the entire human culture is military culture, and military culture is not exclusive to a single nation, although there are differences among nations. To be sure, spiritual elements such as courage and sacrifice are in high demand in all armies. Therefore, to build the core values ??of our military, we also need to absorb the excellent spiritual factors accumulated in the history of world military construction that can be used by us.

Based on the above analysis, the core values ??established by contemporary Chinese military personnel should be: mission, loyalty, discipline, and sacrifice. Mission and loyalty address identity positioning, while discipline and sacrifice address how to achieve this positioning. To further differentiate, mission is the core, loyalty is the premise, discipline is the condition, and sacrifice is the requirement.

Mission. Mission awareness is an important difference between our army and the armies of Western countries. Most Western countries do not assign tasks to the military from a political perspective. The "mission concept" extended from a political perspective can only belong to an armed group like our army that performs political tasks under the absolute leadership of the party.

What our army has long insisted on is taking the party's flag as its banner and the party's goals as its goals, and its truth has been proven by practice. This determines that mission awareness must be an important part of core values. Entering the new century and new stage, the functions and tasks of our military have changed both in connotation and extension, that is, striving to achieve "three provisions and one performance." However, the nature of our military has not changed, and the sense of mission must not change either. Only when the officers and soldiers establish a sense of mission can their inner spiritual demands and spiritual motivation be continuously produced.

Loyalty. Any country emphasizes the loyalty of the military, and even regards loyalty as the most basic and important professional quality and moral standard for identifying an army and its members. But who is loyal and how this loyalty is practiced varies greatly among armies. Although the core of the loyalty that the military of Western countries talks about is loyalty to the country, the requirements are more reflected in the category of professional ethics. In order to ensure the realization of this kind of loyalty, religious spirit is even infused into it. The loyalty we are talking about is a concept with richer political connotations and wider content. For example, what we have long emphasized is "loyalty to the party, loyalty to the people, loyalty to the country, and loyalty to socialism." What is particularly worthy of attention is this This kind of loyalty is not just a conceptual adjustment, but is based on the growth history of our military, the country's political system, and the way to realize the people's fundamental interests.

Discipline. Discipline is the life of the army and an important guarantee for the generation of combat effectiveness. Looking at the history of the development of the army at home and abroad, all of them regard the establishment and enforcement of iron discipline as an important principle of army building. Taking discipline as a component of core values ??is not only a requirement of the basic laws of military construction, but also has unique political connotations. As early as the Red Army period, Mao Zedong personally formulated the "Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention" that later developed into the fine traditions of our army. It should be realized that what kind of discipline is formulated is not only a group's code of conduct, but also reflects the group's political philosophy, because to whom discipline is enforced, which group's interests are maintained by discipline, and what kind of political goals are disciplined to achieve? Purpose has different reflections in different armies. Only by treating and following discipline as a core value and strictly restraining themselves with discipline can every member of our army ensure the political quality and direction of our army's efforts, and be able to carry out military orders like mountains, enforce orders and prohibitions, move forward inexorably, and maintain discipline. Dare and willing to make sacrifices under constraints.

Sacrifice. Compared with various social classes and groups, the sacrifice of soldiers is unconditional and the most thorough. For example, whether people from every social class will risk their lives when facing death is more a matter of moral advocacy rather than the enforcement of laws and disciplines. This is not the case for soldiers. As long as the interests of the country and the people are needed, as long as military orders are issued , knowing that we are facing death, we still have the courage to rush towards death. The sacrifices made by soldiers are wide-ranging and the requirements are clear. They cannot be avoided and can only be borne. This aspect is also significantly different from Western armies. Western armies also require sacrifices on the battlefield, but because society regards the army and soldiers as professions, there is no need to make sacrifices outside the law. In short, the mainstream spirit and core values ??of any country emphasize nobility, and what can create nobility must be sacrifice. However, sacrifice is regarded as the soul of a group. Only the Chinese army has a spirit of self-sacrifice that has achieved the glory of our army.