The current situation of China’s national defense:

China’s national defense construction is centered on modernization. The purpose of realizing national defense modernization is to ensure national security and maintain world peace. Premier Zhou Enlai put forward the call for building a modern national defense for the first time in the Government Work Report of the First National People's Congress in 1954. The First Session of the Third National People's Congress in 1964 further clearly proposed the four modernization goals, including national defense modernization. Through continuous efforts, China has made achievements in its national defense modernization construction and established a relatively complete national defense scientific research and defense industry system;

The Chinese People's Liberation Army has developed from a single army in the past to include the army, navy, and air force. It has integrated the military with various services and arms of the Strategic Missile Force; its weapons and equipment have also been greatly improved and developed, and it has mastered missile nuclear technology and space technology, further enhancing its ability to contain wars and improving China's international status.

After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, China's national defense modernization has entered a new historical development period, and great achievements have been made in building national defense modernization with Chinese characteristics.

In October 2007, the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China officially proposed the establishment and improvement of a weapons and equipment scientific research and production system that integrates military and civilian services and integrates military and civilian forces, and follows a development path of military-civilian integration with Chinese characteristics. During the two sessions in March 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping formally proposed elevating military-civilian integration to a national strategy. Our country's national defense science and technology industry system has entered a magnificent era of great change. The scientific research and production capabilities of core military products are still controlled by the state-owned military industry system, while non-core military products fully rely on the cooperation of the national economic system.

The future of China’s national defense:

China’s national defense modernization construction must proceed from China’s actual situation and follow a development path of national defense modernization with Chinese characteristics. The modernization of the armed forces, especially the army, is the focus. Achieving national defense modernization requires that national defense science and technology should be at the forefront of development, continuously improve the modernization level of weapons and equipment, and provide an advanced material and technical foundation for the modernization of the armed forces. We must do a good job in the modernization of national defense talents, national defense systems, national defense mobilization, national defense theories, and national defense legal systems to comprehensively improve the country's comprehensive national defense capabilities.

Strategy for national defense construction:

1. The first step to 2010 is to focus on reducing the scale, optimizing the structure and developing weapons and equipment with advanced performance to lay a good foundation for future development. .

2. In the second step, by 2020, we will strive to basically realize mechanization and make significant progress in informatization construction.

3. The third step is to realize the modernization of national defense and the army by 2050 and build the people's army into a world-class army.

Extended information:

A complete national defense industry system is the basis for independent research and development of advanced weapons and equipment. Our country is the only country in the world besides the United States and Russia that has a complete defense industrial system.

The construction of China's defense industrial system is the same age as that of the Republic of China and has a history of nearly 70 years. The development process has roughly gone through four stages: in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was based on the inheritance of the National Government and the arsenal of the liberated areas, and the initial construction was completed with the aid of the Soviet Union; starting in 1965, through large-scale third-line construction, a basically complete national defense industry was built in the late 1970s. system; after the reform and opening up, military expenditures were reduced in order to comply with the overall economic construction, and the construction of weapons and equipment stagnated and the gap widened; after the bombing of the embassy in South Africa in 1999, the construction of high-tech weapons and equipment was comprehensively promoted, and rapid progress has been achieved in the past 20 years.

The basic contents of China’s national defense construction include:

1. The establishment of the national defense leadership system and the military command system

2. National defense resources (including human, financial and material resources) )

3. Implementation of national defense education

4. Development of national defense science and technology and weapons and equipment

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6. Improvement of standing army combat effectiveness and combat readiness level

7. Establishment and improvement of national mobilization system

8. Research on national defense legislation and national defense theory