Celebrating the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army of China： Breaking a new path with superb wisdom and winning.

　　Reform and innovation is the historical iron law of building a strong army at all times and in all countries. Looking back at the history of the struggle of the people’s army under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, from the Agrarian Revolutionary War to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, from the War of Liberation to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, no matter how powerful the enemy is, no matter how difficult and dangerous the test is, we can always break new paths and win new victories with superb wisdom.

　　A strong country must strengthen the army, and a strong army must be reformed. Deepening the reform of national defense and the army is an inevitable choice to narrow the gap with the world’s military powers and strive to grasp the strategic initiative in military competition. It is also the only way to build a consolidated national defense and a strong army commensurate with China’s international status and national security and development interests.

　　A vivid history of reform and innovation

　　Reform and innovation are the innate qualities of our army.

　　From the establishment of a set of principles and systems for building the army, such as "the party’s absolute leadership over the army" during the Agrarian Revolutionary War, to the implementation of streamlining the army during the Anti-Japanese War; Our army has never stopped the pace of reform and innovation since the establishment of New China and the millions of disarmament in the new period of reform and opening up. A history of China People’s Liberation Army is a vivid history of reform and innovation.

　　At present, the new military revolution in the world is surging, and the war form is accelerating to evolve into an information war. The world, national conditions and military situation urgently require deepening the reform of national defense and the army. "History and reality tell us that an army may lose its strategic and war initiative if it lags behind the times in scale, structure and strength, and lags behind the development of war forms and methods." President Xi’s scientific judgment points out the direction for reforming and strengthening the army.

　　A cry of thunder and thunder. The leadership and command system reform is the "opening drama" of this round of reform. Establish army leading bodies, rocket troops and strategic support forces, adjust and set up 15 functional departments of military commission organs, designate five war zones, complete the reorganization of naval, air force, rocket army and armed police forces, implement the reform of joint logistics support system, and set up joint operational command institutions of military commission and theater … … The organizational structure of the people’s army has achieved historic changes, and the pattern of the military commission in charge of the general, the main battle of the theater, and the main construction of the service has taken shape.

　　On December 2, 2016, the Central Military Commission held a meeting on the reform of the military scale structure and strength, and made comprehensive arrangements for the "below the neck" reform. Optimize the proportion of arms and services, adjust and reorganize 18 army groups into 13, maintain the original size of the air force, and slightly increase the navy and rocket army; Significantly streamline the personnel of non-combat organizations and enrich the combat troops. While reducing the total number of posts by 300,000, the number of combat troops will increase instead of decreasing; Deepen the reform of military academies, scientific research institutions and training institutions … … The formation of the army is developing in the direction of enrichment, synthesis, versatility and flexibility, and the people’s army is being transformed from quantitative scale to quality and efficiency, and from manpower-intensive to technology-intensive.

　　Break the road to victory with active change.

　　The people’s army is always at the juncture of life and death, and it has taken the initiative to change and break out the road to victory.

　　Looking back at history, the reform of our army is often not a natural and leisurely process, but a Jedi outbreak under external threats and internal pressure. The "Three Bays Adaptation" started with a team of less than 1,000 people in the repeated failures of urban riots, while streamlining troops and simplifying administration was carried out under the heavy siege of the Japanese invaders’ "Three Lights" policy and the encirclement of iron walls. Today, the reform of our army took place under the circumstance that some hegemonic countries imposed strategic containment on us, and set sail in the eager move of Japanese right-wing forces to shake the peace constitution and then attempt to subvert the post-war international order.

　　The military revolution with China characteristics is a part of the rolling trend of military revolution in the world. The current national defense and military reform is a reshaping of modern military forces with China characteristics, especially the leadership and command system, and an unprecedented systematic reconstruction of the military power structure of our army since the founding of New China.

　　Observing today’s training ground, in the joint three-dimensional landing exercises organized by various theaters, the use of naval and air forces has obviously increased, and new combat forces have gradually become the protagonists, and the traditional army is no longer the "boss".

　　Our army has come from guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare in the war years, from a single service dominated by the army, and from the tradition of fighting on its own soil, with a distinctive China imprint. Reforming the continental army system fully embodies our army’s determination to take the initiative to change.

　　According to the overall plan of "task-based, capability-centered, network-based and information-supported", our army will build an information-based global mobile army in stages. This change is based on the fact that the army is in the process of incomplete mechanization and just starting informatization, and it also highlights the distinct difference from the transformation of other countries’ army.

　　Undoubtedly, in this round of active reform, our army boldly broke the long-standing headquarters system, the military region system and the continental army system, and built a new system of "the military commission is in charge of the general, the main battle in the theater, and the main construction of the service". Although it learned from the practices of the US and Russian troops, it also reflected the unique wisdom of our army.

　　Based on independent innovation and seeking development

　　For the development of an army, independent innovation is the most reliable support point.

　　Looking back at the history of the people’s army, we can find that innovation always shines with unique light in the war. In War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, our army created a unique strategy and tactics, which effectively shattered the enemy’s sweeping and encroachment on the base areas; In the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, he invented a new tactic of defeating planes, tanks and artillery with "millet plus rifles", rewriting the invincible "myth" of the U.S. military.

　　Now, in the face of the surging tide of the new military revolution in the world, President Xi warned the whole army that the new military revolution in the world has provided us with a golden opportunity, and we must hit the water in the middle stream. Faced with the call of reforming and strengthening the army, the soldiers of the three armed forces move and follow orders, and seek development based on independent innovation — —

　　The southern theater has continuously strengthened the sense of responsibility of party committees, established and improved the innovative "fault-tolerant" mechanism, and encouraged government officials to make bold innovations in combination with their post practice; The Party Committee of the Navy’s East China Sea Fleet specially set up the Tactics Research Office, focusing on the experience of previous actual military exercises, establishing a file of key and difficult issues in the tactics training of new equipment, and aiming at the shortcomings one by one.

　　The vast number of scientific and technological workers are working hard on the road of independent innovation: the J -15 carrier aircraft independently developed by China has achieved a breakthrough from shore-based to ship-based zero for our fixed-wing aircraft; Multi-UAV has become a multiplier to improve operational efficiency under the condition of informationization. Missiles are getting smaller and smaller, with higher strike accuracy and stronger damage power. By improving and upgrading the comprehensive integration construction and fully introducing the universal data link of the three armed forces, the army is fully committed to building a new generation of information system that is deeply integrated with the weapon platform. Using information innovation technology, the strategic support forces set up an integrated command and training platform with the functions of simulated operation, command and control, and comprehensive support.

　　Establish a full-time military training supervision institution, establish a military training supervision system, and carry out military training supervision work. This is another innovative measure of our army to improve the actual combat level of military training. It covers all systems and levels of military training and runs through the whole process, which effectively promotes focusing on actual combat and improving training style to form an overwhelming advantage in the field of military training.

　　"Xiongguan Man Road is really like iron, and now it is a step from the beginning." Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Military Commission and President Xi, the people’s army, which has gone through a glorious course of 90 years, is bound to move towards more glorious victory.

　　 (Reporter Chen Jinsong Liu Xiaobing)