Xi Jinping emphasized when attending the plenary meeting of the People’s Liberation Army and Armed Police Force delegation
Give full play to the unique advantages of political army building and work together to promote the steady and long-term modernization of national defense and the army
"People's Daily" (Page 01, March 08, 2026)
On the afternoon of March 7, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the plenary meeting of the People’s Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force delegation at the Fourth Session of the 14th National People’s Congress and delivered an important speech.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Gang
■ During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, in order to achieve the 100-year goal of the founding of the army as scheduled and promote the modernization of national defense and the army with high quality, we must adhere to, use well, and develop the important magic weapon of political army building, unswervingly uphold and strengthen the party's absolute leadership over the army, give full play to the unique advantages of political army building, and concentrate on promoting the steady and long-term modernization of national defense and the army
■ Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has led the People’s Army to deepen political training and promote political army building with unprecedented determination and intensity, and has achieved significant results. The military is armed with guns, and there must be no people in the military who are disloyal to the Party. There must be no place for corrupt elements to hide. We must unswervingly advance the fight against corruption. At the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan", we must establish hard rules for strict supervision, pay close attention to key links such as capital flow, power exercise, and quality control, strengthen supervision of major projects, strengthen military-civilian integration supervision, and ensure that construction is carried out under the premise of supervision. It is necessary to promote the reform of military budget management, achieve a dynamic balance between supply and demand of military expenditures, strengthen the full chain control and performance evaluation of fund use, and use every penny wisely
■ Completing the goals and tasks of national defense and military modernization during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period ultimately depends on the leadership and advancement of party organizations at all levels. It is necessary to comprehensively strengthen the party's leadership and party building in our military, select and strengthen high-level party committee teams, enhance the ability of grassroots party organizations to independently build, and build party organizations at all levels to be stronger and more powerful. It is necessary to insist on the Party's management of the military, the Party's management of cadres, and the Party's management of industries, improve scientific decision-making capabilities, play a key role in tackling major tasks, resolve prominent contradictions, and solve development problems, and transform the Party's leadership advantages into development advantages
■ We must strengthen the construction of a team of revolutionary and professional talents, persist in educating people with the Party’s innovative theories, lay a solid ideological foundation for officers and soldiers to listen to the Party’s words and follow the Party, and ensure that modern weapons and equipment are in the hands of a team of revolutionary talents. It is necessary to improve the system and conditions for promoting the development of talents, systematically promote the cultivation of "four types of talents" such as joint combat command, new combat forces, high-level scientific and technological innovation, and high-level strategic management, and achieve the coordinated development of human capabilities and quality with the practice of strengthening the military
■ We must vigorously inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of our party and our army, promote the construction of a strong military culture in the new era, strengthen the cultivation and encouragement of advanced models, pass on the red gene from generation to generation, and make the new trend of righteousness more abundant. We must regard the grassroots as a fertile ground for continuing fine traditions, actively explore the laws and beneficial practices of grassroots construction under the new situation, pay attention to the work of managing the fundamentals, benefiting the long-term, and increasing stamina, so as to lay a more solid foundation for troop building and combat effectiveness
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 7 (Reporter Mei Changwei) On the afternoon of the 7th, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the plenary meeting of the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force delegation at the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress. To achieve the centenary goal of the founding of the army and promote the modernization of national defense and the army with high quality, we must adhere to, use and develop the important magic weapon of political army building, unswervingly adhere to and strengthen the party's absolute leadership over the army, give full play to the unique advantages of political army building, and concentrate on promoting the steady and long-term modernization of national defense and the army.
At the meeting, six representatives including Sun Lei, Zhou Fen, Tang Wuxiang, Hao Jingwen, Jiang Xiaodong, and Zhu Yuemeng spoke successively, respectively providing opinions and suggestions on cross-military law enforcement cooperation, party organization leadership in scientific research, training of sergeant personnel, generation and application of new equipment and new force capabilities, carrying forward fine traditions, cultivating models, publicity, and learning and application.
After carefully listening to the representatives’ speeches, Xi Jinping delivered an important speech. He pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has led the people's army with unprecedented determination and intensity to deepen political training and promote political army building, and achieved significant results. The military is armed with guns, and there must be no people in the military who are disloyal to the Party. There must be no place for corrupt elements to hide. We must unswervingly advance the fight against corruption. At the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan", we must establish hard rules for strict supervision, pay close attention to key links such as capital flow, power exercise, and quality control, strengthen supervision of major projects, strengthen military-civilian integration supervision, and ensure that construction is carried out under the premise of supervision. It is necessary to promote the reform of military budget management, achieve a dynamic balance between supply and demand of military expenditures, strengthen full-chain control and performance evaluation of funds use, and use every penny wisely.
Xi Jinping emphasized that completing the goals and tasks of national defense and military modernization during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period ultimately depends on the leadership and advancement of party organizations at all levels. It is necessary to comprehensively strengthen the party's leadership and party building in our military, select and strengthen high-level party committee teams, enhance the ability of grassroots party organizations to independently build, and build party organizations at all levels to be stronger and more powerful. It is necessary to insist on the Party's management of the military, the Party's management of cadres, and the Party's management of industries, improve scientific decision-making capabilities, play a key role in tackling major tasks, resolve prominent contradictions, and solve development problems, and transform the Party's leadership advantages into development advantages.
Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen the construction of a revolutionary professional talent team, persist in educating people with the Party’s innovative theories, lay a solid ideological foundation for officers and soldiers to listen to the Party’s words and follow the Party, and ensure that modern weapons and equipment are in the hands of a revolutionary talent team. It is necessary to improve the systems and conditions that promote the development of talents, systematically promote the training of "four types of talents" such as joint combat command, new combat forces, high-level scientific and technological innovation, and high-level strategic management, so as to achieve coordinated development of human capabilities and quality with the practice of strengthening the military.
Xi Jinping emphasized that we should vigorously inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of our party and our army, promote the construction of a strong military culture in the new era, strengthen the cultivation and encouragement of advanced models, let the red gene be passed on from generation to generation, and make the new trend of righteousness more abundant. We must regard the grassroots as a fertile ground for continuing fine traditions, actively explore the laws and beneficial practices of grassroots construction under the new situation, pay attention to the work of managing the fundamentals, benefiting the long term, and increasing stamina, so as to lay a more solid foundation for troop building and combat effectiveness.
Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Zhang Shengmin attended the meeting.
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