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national defense

National defense refers to the military activities carried out by the state to guard against and resist aggression, stop armed subversion and separatism, and defend national sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity, security, and development interests, as well as military-related political, economic, diplomatic, scientific, technological, and educational activities.

The guiding ideology of national defense

National defense adheres to the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thinking of the "Three Represents", the Scientific Outlook on Development, and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, implements Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, adheres to the overall national security concept, implements the military strategic principles for the new era, and builds a consolidated national defense and a strong armed force commensurate with the mainland's international status and national security and development interests.

National defense construction

National defense construction refers to the construction of various aspects to enhance national defense capability for the needs of national security interests, including the building of armed forces, preparations for manpower mobilization, battlefield preparations, strategic material reserves, national defense construction, national defense science and technology research, and national defense education and military training for the people.

Armament

The national armed forces are composed of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Chinese People's Armed Police Force and the militia. Its tasks are to consolidate national defense, resist aggression, defend the motherland, defend the peaceful labor of the people, participate in the cause of national construction, and serve the people wholeheartedly.

Defense assets

The funds directly invested by the state for the building of the armed forces, national defense scientific research and production, and other national defense construction, as well as the allocated land and other resources, as well as the resulting weapons, equipment, equipment, facilities, materials, and technological achievements for national defense purposes, are national defense assets. Defense assets are owned by the state. It is forbidden for any organization or individual to destroy, damage or embezzle national defense assets.

National Defense Obligations

Defending the motherland and resisting aggression is the sacred duty of every citizen of the People's Republic of China. Military service and participation in militia organizations in accordance with the law are the honorable obligations of citizens of the People's Republic of China. Citizens of the People's Republic of China shall fulfill their national defense obligations in accordance with law. All state organs and armed forces, political parties, people's organizations, enterprises, public institutions, social organizations, and other organizations shall support and participate in national defense construction in accordance with the law, perform national defense duties, and fulfill national defense tasks. Enterprises, public institutions, organizations, and individuals shall, in accordance with state regulations, implement national defense requirements in construction projects closely related to national defense, and ensure the needs of national defense construction and military operations in accordance with the law.

Defense Communications

National defense transportation refers to the planning, construction, management and resource use activities carried out in the fields of railways, roads, waterways, aviation, pipelines and postal services for the purpose of satisfying national defense needs.

Defense Transportation

The state mainly relies on large and medium-sized transportation enterprises, organizes the construction of strategic projection support forces, enhances strategic projection capabilities, and provides effective support for the rapid organization of long-distance and large-scale national defense transportation. Local people's governments at or above the county level and relevant enterprises and public institutions shall, in accordance with the needs of national defense transportation, provide necessary services or guarantees in areas such as food and drinking water supply, loading and unloading operations, medical aid, passage and recuperation, and security and guarding. As needed, the armed forces may, as needed, dispatch military representatives to relevant transportation enterprises or areas where transportation enterprises are concentrated, and work with relevant units to accomplish national defense transportation and transportation support tasks.

National defense transportation support

The national defense and transportation professional support team shall be established by enterprises and public institutions in accordance with relevant regulations. The competent departments of transportation of the people's governments at or above the county level, relevant military organs, and competent institutions for national defense transportation shall, as needed, organize relevant enterprises and institutions to carry out training and drills for specialized support teams for national defense transportation. The national defense transportation professional support team shall carry out the tasks of emergency repair, construction, protection and emergency repair of civilian vehicles and personnel and materials of national defense transportation engineering facilities, and shall be uniformly deployed by the competent national defense transportation agency of the people's government at or above the county level in conjunction with the transportation department of the people's government at the same level.

National defense mobilization

National defense mobilization refers to the general or partial mobilization of the whole country in accordance with the constitution and laws of the state when the sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity, security and development interests of the state are threatened, including the mobilization of the armed forces, the national economy, the transportation of the people, and the civil air defense.

Principles and Principles of National Defense Mobilization

National defense mobilization adheres to the principle of integrating peacetime with wartime, integrating the military with the people, and integrating the military with the people, and follows the principles of unified leadership, participation of the whole people, long-term preparation, key construction, overall planning, and orderly and high efficiency.

Survey of national defense potential

The statistical agencies and relevant departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the needs of national defense mobilization, accurately and promptly provide relevant statistical data to the offices of the national defense mobilization committees at the corresponding level. When the statistical data provided cannot meet the needs, the office of the National Defense Mobilization Committee may, in accordance with the "Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China" and relevant state regulations, organize and carry out special statistical surveys on national defense mobilization potential.

Strategic material reserve and mobilization

The state implements a system of strategic material reserves and mobilization to meet the needs of national defense mobilization. Units undertaking the task of strategic material reserves shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions and standards of the State, keep and maintain the reserve materials, regularly adjust and replace, and ensure the efficiency and safety of the use of reserve materials. Strategic materials shall be transferred in accordance with relevant state regulations.

National defense education

National defense education is a social activity aimed at defending national sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security, defending against the threat of foreign aggression and subversion, and imparting national defense-related ideas, knowledge, and skills to the whole people.

Principles of National Defense Education

National defense education implements the principle of participation by the whole people, long-term adherence, and stressing practical results, and implements the principles of combining regular education with centralized education, general education with key education, and theoretical education with behavioral education.

The purpose of national defense education

Through conducting national defense education, citizens should enhance their sense of national defense, master basic national defense knowledge, learn necessary military skills, arouse patriotic enthusiasm, and consciously fulfill their national defense obligations.

Social defense education

Popularizing and strengthening national defense education is the common responsibility of the whole society. All state organs and armed forces, all political parties, all social organizations, all enterprises, public institutions, and grass-roots mass autonomous organizations shall, in accordance with their actual conditions, organize their own localities, departments, and units to carry out national defense education. Enterprises and institutions shall include national defense education in their staff education plans, and conduct national defense education for their employees in conjunction with political education, professional training, culture, and sports.

Guarantee of national defense education

The funds needed by state organs, public institutions, and social organizations to carry out national defense education shall be included in the budget of their respective units; The funds required by enterprises to carry out national defense education shall be included in the education funds for the employees of their units.

National Defense Education Day

National Defense Education Day for the Whole People is a theme activity day set by the state to conduct large-scale national defense education for the whole people, and is one of the forms of mass national defense education activities. Every year on the third Saturday of September.