Anchor the 100-year goal of building the army, forge ahead, resolutely listen to the party's command, PLA Daily Editorial: Loyal Maintenance of Core Xi Jinping | Thought | Command
Loyalty, core maintenance, resolute obedience to the Party's command, anchoring the centenary goal of building the military, forging ahead, and striving forward
——Warm Celebration of the 96th Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army
Looking back at the path of struggle in the past, gazing at the path of progress ahead, the People's Army is striving to strengthen itself under the banner of the Party, with a more firm ideological guidance, a more uplifting spiritual state, and a stronger fighting spirit.
After enduring the smoke and fire of war, the Party has led the People's Army through 96 years of trials and tribulations, with loyalty like a rock, mission like a torch, and journey like a rainbow. From the sound of gunfire at the head of Nanchang to the display of red flags on Jinggangshan; From the arduous journey of the Long March, to the bloody struggle to resist Japan and save the country; From sweeping away thousands of soldiers like a roll of seats during the Liberation War, to demonstrating national and military prestige through the Korean War's resistance and assistance to the United States; From actively participating in the socialist revolution and construction, the new great revolution of reform and opening up, to fulfilling the mission and tasks entrusted by the Party and the people in the new era, and providing strategic support for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the People's Army has always kept in mind its original aspiration and mission, maintained its nature and purpose, made tremendous sacrifices, and achieved one brilliant victory after another, establishing immortal achievements for the Chinese people to stand up, become rich, and strong. History has fully proven that the People's Army is a strong pillar to defend the red mountains and maintain national dignity, a powerful force to maintain regional and world peace, and a heroic army that the Party and the people can fully trust.
We will firmly adhere to the absolute leadership of the Party over the People's Army, steadfastly promote political rectification and training, fundamentally improve the political ecology of our army, and continuously promote a new and positive atmosphere;Deepening national defense and military reform with great strides, winning the three major battles of reform, and achieving a new system, structure, pattern, and appearance of our military, achieving a revolutionary overall reshaping; Innovate and strengthen the modernization construction of national defense and the military, accelerate the integration of mechanization, informatization, and intelligence, and promote the high-quality development of our military; Actively promoting the exploration and practice of military governance, forming a series of new institutional mechanisms, laws and regulations, and policy systems, adhering to and developing the socialist military system with Chinese characteristics in the new era, effectively promoting the modernization of national defense and the military. Our Party led People's Army has held its roots and soul, walked away from the rapid development pace, and won the initiative to move towards world-class development.
The flag guides the direction, and the core navigates and steers.
Distinguish direction and regularize. At present, the world is undergoing an unprecedented great transformation, with a rapid development of a new round of technological and military revolutions. The changes in the world, the times, and history are unfolding in unprecedented ways. The world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, and the instability and uncertainty of China's security situation have increased. Our military construction is currently in a critical period of achieving the centenary goal of building a military. Realizing the centenary goal of building the military is the central task of our military construction in the coming years, carrying the long-standing aspiration of our party to strengthen the military, meeting the urgent requirements of our country's development from large to strong military capabilities, and reflecting the organic unity of the party's historical mission, national strategic needs, and our military's mission and tasks. Now, with only a few short years left to achieve this goal, it is even more necessary for us to strengthen our mission and responsibility to hand over historical answers as scheduled. We should know the heavy burden, overcome difficulties, and mitigate risks, and accelerate our efforts to build a strong military in the new era. We must resolutely shoulder the important responsibilities assigned to us by the Party and the people.
We must persist in thinking and handling military issues from a political perspective, dare to struggle and be good at it, strengthen the normalization and diversification of military power, deepen military preparedness, focus on practical military training, hone the courage of officers and soldiers to win, forge stronger capabilities and more reliable means, and resolutely defend national sovereignty, security, and development interests. We need to comprehensively strengthen military governance, strengthen governance in various fields, across the entire chain, and at all levels, improve the systematic, holistic, and collaborative nature of military governance, attach great importance to grassroots governance, organically combine military governance with reform and the rule of law, strengthen cross military and civilian governance, build a modern military governance system, improve modern military governance capabilities, and promote the high-quality development of our military through high-level governance. We must continue to promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and the military, conscientiously implement the spirit of the Party building conference of the entire army, focus on strengthening the organizational system at the high-level and grassroots levels, strive to improve the Party committee leadership's ability to prepare for war, tighten the political responsibility of managing the Party at all levels, promote the normalization and institutionalization of political training, persist in maintaining good conduct, discipline and anti-corruption, and provide strong political guarantees for achieving the centenary goal of building the military.
Forge and forge ahead to start a new era, with high fighting spirit and move forward.