While attending the plenary meeting of the delegation of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the People's Armed Police Force (PAPF) to the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress, President Xi stressed the need to highlight the key points of development and do a good job in the implementation of strategies and plans for strategic capacity building in emerging fields. This has pointed out the direction for us to seize the commanding heights of military struggle and seek new advantages in competition and development. To speed up the improvement of new qualitative combat effectiveness, it is necessary to closely follow the changes in science and technology, warfare, and opponents, grasp the laws governing the development characteristics of emerging fields and the laws governing the generation of systematic combat capabilities, grasp key emerging fields, strengthen the idea of system building and system building, update thinking concepts, innovate methods and means, adhere to system layout, system design, system promotion, and system evaluation, make overall plans for the design of integrated planning and layout in emerging fields, and systematically plan and promote the construction of new qualitative combat effectiveness.
Strengthen the traction of military needs. In army building, demand traction plays a fundamental role. Military needs are at the front end of the strategic management link and are the starting point and source of military planning and construction. It is necessary to plan and design in the context of building a world-class army in an all-round way, aim at the forefront and find the breakthrough direction for improving strategic capabilities in emerging fields, build a mechanism for soliciting opinions on military needs of new quality combat effectiveness, form an open and inclusive pattern of military needs, strengthen front-line investigation and research, gather wisdom to solve problems such as difficulty in generating and coordinating military needs, give full play to the traction role of operational needs in achieving the capabilities of the new quality combat effectiveness system, and promote the needs of new quality combat effectiveness construction into strategy and planning in a timely manner, and tightly grasp the goal orientation. Focusing on elements such as the formulation of planning objectives and cost-benefit comparison, we should build a target indicator system with a complete system and effective traction, clarify strategic objectives, scientifically formulate plans, optimize resource allocation, and form a list of capability indicators to ensure scientific reporting, accurate docking, and agile response to demand, so as to drive the effective implementation of planning and construction.
Strengthen policy and institutional safeguards. Improving the policy system is a long-term plan to promote strategic capacity building in emerging fields. Standing at the height of politics and the overall situation, we should give full consideration to the relationship between the military and the localities, the system and the elements, the current and the long-term, and other aspects, break down the policy obstacles, institutional barriers, and mechanism shortcomings that restrict the improvement of the quality and efficiency of the construction of new quality combat effectiveness, identify the combination of major policies and systems and specific work related to the construction of new quality combat effectiveness, innovate the strategic management system, build a military expenditure management system, strengthen the overall arrangement of military resources, focus on the long-term, treat both the symptoms and the root causes, and accelerate the integration of the construction of laws and regulations and the codification of military laws and regulations from the top-level design. Form a strategic management policy system that is conducive to the development of new quality combat effectiveness, precise, efficient, comprehensive, standardized, and rigidly restrictive.
Strengthen overall planning and coordination of the organization. Only by forming a scientific and rigorous organizational system can we stimulate strong organizational mobilization and execution. Grasp the characteristics and laws of strategic planning work under the new system, structure the organizational system, clarify responsibilities and tasks, improve the operation mechanism, rely on strategic planning decision-making and deliberation and coordination institutions, regard the implementation and management of new quality combat effectiveness related planning as a political task, party committee project and victory project, strengthen macro guidance, and often grasp the new quality combat effectiveness planning tasks, and form a work pattern in which party committees at all levels are strongly controlled, field departments play the leading role, and the main construction unit takes the lead in the work pattern and the responsibility link of "everyone picks the heavy burden and everyone has indicators on their shoulders". With the real strength, the ruthlessness of the strict grasp, and the tenacity of the constant grasp, perseverance to grasp to the end.
Strengthen performance evaluation and supervision. Performance evaluation is an important tool for performance management. Focusing on the construction of combat leadership and grasping construction, we will build a comprehensive combat capability performance evaluation chain, adhere to the hierarchical classification, each take its own responsibility, and work together to tackle tough problems, accelerate the construction of a planning and implementation responsibility system with clear rights and responsibilities and cohesive connection, improve mechanisms such as regular inventory, normal monitoring, quarterly analysis, and accurate evaluation, and do a good job in the management and control of the construction process of new quality combat effectiveness planning projects, keep an eye on key areas and major projects, control the rhythm, block nodes, and accurately supervise responsibilities, integrate the evaluation of the implementation of the plan and the inspection and evaluation of combat capability. Risk projects implement methods such as posting orders, listing supervision, and rolling calls, strengthen whole-process supervision, build an orderly and connected process control such as planning lead department monitoring, field monitoring, and monitoring of the main responsible unit, and implement closed links to fight the tough battle for the construction of new quality combat effectiveness projects.
Strengthen collaborative and linkage research. Planning and plan implementation management is a systematic project, especially in the process of planning blocking points and obstruction, it is inseparable from field linkage and military-civilian coordination. Only by strengthening cross-field, cross-unit, and cross-military joint advancement with a strong sense of systems and thinking about the overall situation, and doing a good job in systematic planning, scientifically coordinating tasks, rationally setting up plans, and optimizing the allocation of resources, can we ensure the orderly progress of all aspects of the building of new quality combat effectiveness. In practice, it is necessary to strengthen the coordination and linkage of institutional and mechanism innovation, handle the relationship between organizational coordination and hierarchical docking, strengthen the division of labor and cooperation between departments, cohesion, build an integration system of internal horizontal cooperation, vertical linkage between upper and lower levels, and cross-border coordination between military and civilian areas, improve the system of information exchange, resource sharing, and coordination and linkage, and link all fields and elements to produce chemical reactions.
Strengthen the external brain assistance of think tanks. The key to think tanks is "intelligence", and their role is to give full play to their intellectual advantages and promote "outwitting" with "think tanks". In the planning and implementation management of the construction of new quality combat effectiveness, absorb and enrich the external brain strength of experts in related fields, absorb experts in emerging fields, build expert think tanks, strengthen the external brain support function, focus on the promotion of major engineering projects and solve major and difficult contradictions, support decision-making science with subject discussions, organize wisdom to tackle key problems, carry out research on policies, systems and mechanisms, put forward innovative, constructive and targeted countermeasures and suggestions and "accompanied" services, maximize the role of think tanks, and release "wisdom factors". Provide strong and effective decision-making services and intellectual support for the high-quality implementation of the planning and construction of new combat effectiveness.
Strengthen the drive of data empowerment. Data is not only a strategic resource, but also an indispensable and important support for planning and execution management. In today's world, the scientific and technological revolution and the industrial revolution are changing with each passing day, and new fields are emerging one after another. In the context of big data and cloud computing to accelerate innovation, the effective use and effective control of data is an important engine to improve the planning and construction efficiency of new quality combat effectiveness. Strengthen the construction of an integrated, digital, and intelligent public data service platform, rely on the big data information management system, complete the dynamic management database of projects related to the construction of new quality combat effectiveness, break down data barriers, and systematically promote the data, data servitization, and intelligent service of construction project management with the help of the big data service platform, stimulate service efficiency with scientific algorithms, strengthen online monitoring and network supervision, and let digitalization empower the planning, implementation and management of new quality combat capacity construction.
Strengthen restraint and oversight accountability. Reducing losses, eliminating waste, and optimizing resource allocation are the meanings of planning and execution management. Strict accountability is an important way to solve outstanding problems. Embed the normal inspection and supervision of the implementation of the new quality combat effectiveness planning plan into the inspection and audit supervision, and include it in the cadre assessment and evaluation and construction unit evaluation system, and intervene in the whole process of discipline inspection and supervision, and resolutely stop blindly going on the project, paving the way, listing the plan, weak project management, delaying the implementation of the implementation, as well as repeated construction of the same project, and even project management problems such as lying in the nest and unfinished, and implement full-link, all-round, and normalized supervision, so that the inspection sword hangs high, and create high-quality projects, sunshine projects, and clean projects. With strong supervision, we will help build a new quality of combat effectiveness, and promote it with integrity, quality and efficiency.
Strengthen the construction of professional talents. Talent is the core element in the formation of the army's combat effectiveness, and without first-class talent, there will be no first-class building of new quality combat effectiveness. Strengthen the construction of professional talents in emerging fields, based on the three-in-one new military talent training system, based on the needs of new quality combat capabilities and the classification and guidance catalogue of talents, innovate the talent training model, accelerate the improvement of the discovery, training, incentive and other mechanisms for professionals in emerging fields, optimize the ecology of scientific research competition and the environment for the growth of talents, stimulate endogenous motivation, expand open space for running schools, rely on high-quality resources such as well-known local universities, state key laboratories, and think tanks inside and outside the military, focus on new fields and new qualitative frontiers, and deepen the theoretical research on military-civilian linkageEstablish a database of consulting experts and professional tutors, coordinate the construction of a diversified teaching talent matrix, maximize the contribution rate of the talent training system, and promote the acceleration and efficient implementation of the construction of new quality combat effectiveness.
(Author's unit: Staff Department of the Chinese People's Armed Police Force)