Epidemic prevention and control reflects the profoundness of the overall security concept and the importance of strengthening national security governance capacity-New requirements for national security governance capabilities
Xiong Guangqing
(Source: "Beijing Daily" 2020-04-20 Page 13)
On April 15, 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed the "overall national security concept" for the first time at the first plenary meeting of the Central National Security Commission. He pointed out: "At present, the connotation and extension of our country's national security are richer than at any time in history, the time and space are broader than at any time in history, and the internal and external factors are more complex than at any time in history. We must adhere to the overall national security concept, with people's security as the purpose, political security as the foundation, economic security as the foundation, and military and Cultural and social security as the guarantee, relying on the promotion of international security, and exploring a path of national security with Chinese characteristics. "The overall national security concept is a major innovation of the national security theory of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core. It is an important guiding ideology for safeguarding national security under the new situation, and gives a new connotation to the construction of national governance capabilities. At present, the prevention and control of the new coronavirus epidemic reflects the profoundness of the overall security concept and the importance of strengthening national security governance capabilities.
The overall national security concept gives new connotation to the construction of national governance capabilities
National security is an important cornerstone of stability and stability, and a good security environment is the necessary foundation for all other work. The overall national security concept not only absorbs the theoretical resources of the traditional national security concept, but also combines the development and changes of domestic and international situations in the new era, enriching the connotation of national governance capacity building. National security in the traditional sense mainly refers to a country's sovereign integrity and territorial security. The most important security fields are national defense security and military security. The main means of maintaining national security is military power. In recent years, China has faced an increasingly severe security environment at home and abroad. In view of the urgency and importance of national security work, it is just the right time to put forward an overall national security concept. The overall national security concept has four salient features. The first is to coordinate internal and external security and ensure security from the inside out. That is to say, it is emphasized that we must pay attention to both external security and internal security; we must pay attention to both homeland security and people's security. The second is to build a security concept of a community with a shared future for mankind. That is to say, we value not only our own security but also common security. The third is to emphasize economic construction as the center and promote national security. In other words, it pays attention to both development issues and security issues. Fourth, we should pay equal attention to traditional security and non-traditional security, and focus on improving the overall national security protection capabilities. The overall national security concept attaches great importance to security issues and security prevention at all levels, reflecting the new understanding of national security in the new era.
People's security is the first priority of the overall national security concept. The overall national security concept takes "people's security" as its fundamental purpose and emphasizes the protection of "people's security" when building national governance capabilities. As the COVID-19 epidemic rages across the world, people have begun to realize that the prevention and control of infectious diseases has become a global issue that deserves high vigilance, posing a serious threat to "human security." There have been many global pandemics in human history, some of which were so harmful that people still talk about them. In view of the threats that global infectious diseases and potential bioterrorism pose to the security situation at the human, national, international and even global levels, there has been a trend of "securitization" of global public health issues in recent years. Some scholars at home and abroad have begun to conduct certain discussions on the "security" of global infectious disease prevention and control issues, and have gradually elevated the threat of global infectious diseases to a security issue. There is no doubt that the prevention and control of infectious diseases and the construction of the public health system need to pay more attention to the common interests of all mankind, especially "human security", which needs to reflect the fundamental purpose of "people's security".
The overall national security concept puts forward new requirements for the construction of national security governance capabilities
Ensuring national security is an important prerequisite for improving national governance capabilities, and improving national governance capabilities can provide stronger guarantees for national security. The overall national security concept inherits the Chinese Communist Party’s purpose of “serving the people wholeheartedly” and clarifies the fundamental purpose of the Chinese Communist Party’s national security practices in the past century. The overall national security concept is a security concept that is coordinated, long-term, and aware of the overall situation. It provides important guiding ideology for improving national security strategies and improving national security systems in the new era, and puts forward new requirements for further improving national governance capabilities.
The overall national security concept accurately determines the new problems and challenges facing China’s national security in the new era. From the perspective of the international situation, peace and development are still the themes of the times, but various potential threats also exist. Cyber security, global environmental issues, international terrorism, ethnic separatism and religious extremist forces threaten China's security; unstable factors in China's surrounding environment are difficult to eliminate in the short term; the w88 war launched by the United States and the infiltration of Western ideologies have adverse effects on China. From the perspective of the domestic environment, China is still in a period of social transformation. There are many social problems and social conflicts, and sometimes they are very acute, which poses a threat to social stability and social security. The overall national security concept provides good theoretical guidance for a comprehensive and accurate understanding of these issues, which also puts forward new requirements for us to improve our national governance capabilities from the perspective of national security. The overall national security concept embodies the new security concept, puts forward requirements for strengthening national security, and plans a systematic national security system and security governance mechanism.
The overall national security concept puts forward new systemic requirements for national governance capacity building. The overall national security concept does not look at a single security issue in isolation, but focuses on understanding the problem from the perspective of systems theory, looking at the problem from an overall perspective, and paying attention to the connection of security issues at different levels in different fields, thus putting forward new requirements for improving national governance capabilities from the systemic perspective of national security. In the past, we have proposed a comprehensive security concept. The overall national security concept has absorbed the important elements of the comprehensive security concept, and refined the environmental security of the comprehensive security concept into ecological security, resource security, and nuclear security, and added three new elements: homeland security, social security, and information security. More importantly, the overall national security concept regards national security as a systematic project, which makes us realize the connection between these different security issues, and we must establish a more systematic, comprehensive and targeted national security system.
The overall national security concept particularly emphasizes the importance of national security governance capacity building
Safety is the lifeblood of the country, and security is related to the rise and fall of the country's destiny. National security is a prerequisite for a country's survival and development, an important guarantee for a country's people to live and work in peace and contentment, and an important foundation for the stability of a country's social system. National governance and security governance are mutually supportive. The overall national security concept focuses on contemporary China's security situation and security needs, inherits and develops our party's national security theory, and is an important theoretical achievement produced by the development of the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The proposal of the overall security concept has enabled us to more clearly realize the important position of national security governance capabilities in national governance capabilities, thus strengthening our understanding of the importance of building national security governance capabilities.
The overall national security concept provides theoretical guidance for the construction of the national security governance system. The various components of the national security system are interrelated, and there is a very strong correlation between political, economic, social, cultural, military and other security elements. We must take people's security as the purpose, political security as the foundation, economic security as the foundation, military, cultural and social security as the guarantee, and the promotion of international security as the basis, and we must embark on a national security path with Chinese characteristics. We should adhere to the overall national security concept, grasp the overall situation based on changes in the international and domestic situation, make overall plans based on the premise of preventing risks and managing crises, establish and improve the national security governance system, and improve national security governance capabilities. At present, we must effectively maintain political security, improve the national security system, improve national security strategies and policies, strengthen national security capacity building, prevent and control major risks, strengthen legal protection, and enhance national security awareness.
In building national security governance capabilities, we must fully understand the complexity and uncertainty of global issues. At present, global problems have become more serious and complex. Taking the spread of the new coronavirus epidemic around the world as an example, we can see it very clearly. As the speed and scale of global population mobility increase, the spread of infectious diseases becomes more extensive and faster. Although medical standards and medical conditions have been greatly improved, the problem of global infectious diseases is still very serious. Hazards such as AIDS, avian influenza, mad cow disease, and Ebola virus occur frequently. This not only constitutes a new crisis for human security, but also becomes a very important non-traditional security issue that threatens human security. It also has a strong negative impact on the social stability and economic growth of many countries or regions. The global epidemic of the COVID-19 epidemic has made mankind deeply realize that globalization has completely integrated the destiny of all mankind. The entire world is more closely connected than ever. A community with a shared future for mankind is not only an idea, but also a living reality. As China's role in global governance shifts from participation to leadership, China should play its role in the global governance of global infectious diseases and improve China's governance capabilities in the field of global issues. This also puts forward higher requirements for China's national security governance capabilities.
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