Five years of hard work to lay the foundation for strengthening the army. General Secretary Xi Jinping has comprehensively grasped the general trend at home and abroad, closely focused on building a people's army that obeys the party's command, can win battles, and has a good work style, and with great political courage and strong responsibility, he has put forward a series of major principles and principles, made a series of major decisions and deployments, and promoted a series of major tasks, leading our army to achieve historic achievements and historic changes, and leading national defense and army building into a new era.

We have revitalized the political program and discipline, unswervingly promoted political rectification and training, and effectively resolved the conspicuous problem of weakening the party's absolute leadership over the military. In response to the deterioration of the political ecology of our army, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "if this state is allowed to develop, it will face the serious danger of our army's deterioration and discoloration", stressing that "to solve the serious problems existing in the army, we must start by upholding the party's absolute leadership over the army". An all-army political work conference was held in Gutian to make arrangements for political building in the new era and lead the whole army to reorganize and set off again. We should improve the system of the party's leadership over the armed forces, comprehensively and thoroughly implement the responsibility system of the chairman of the Central Military Commission, strictly enforce political discipline and rules, seriously investigate and deal with the cases of Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou, and comprehensively and thoroughly eliminate their poisonous influence. We should deepen the party's scientific and theoretical armament, strengthen the "four consciousnesses" of officers and soldiers, train revolutionary soldiers with "four haves", and forge a strong army with "four irons". We should implement the standards for good cadres in the military, correct the practice of selecting and employing people, and unswervingly purify the contingent of cadres, especially the contingent of senior cadres. Implement the requirements of comprehensive and strict governance of the party, take the political life of the party seriously, strengthen the education, management and supervision of leading cadres, and promote the management of the party from "loose and soft" to "strict and hard". Through the rectification of thinking, the rectification of personnel, the rectification of organization, and the rectification of discipline, the political ecology of our army has taken on a completely new look.

We have reshaped the organizational form and deepened the reform in an all-round way in a bold way, effectively resolving the conspicuous problems in the structural structure that restricts the building of our army. In the face of institutional obstacles, structural contradictions, and policy problems restricting national defense and army building, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "Without reform, comprehensive reform, and thorough reform, our army will not be able to fight and win the war." "Insist on putting reform in a prominent position in the overall strategic situation, innovate and reform the organizational model, strengthen system design and long-term planning, and dare to gnaw hard bones and dare to wade into danger with the responsibility and courage to open the stubborn disease that has accumulated for many years, and resolutely eliminate the shortcomings of all aspects of the system and mechanism. Over the past few years, the reform of our army has been carried out in a big way, and the reform of the leadership and command system has been carried out first, the reform of the scale structure and the organization of forces has been pushed forward in a hurry, and the reform of the policy and system has matured one by one, breaking the long-standing system of the general headquarters, the system of large military regions, and the system of the large army, forming a new pattern in which the Central Military Commission is in charge of the general affairs, the theater is the main battle, and the services are the main building, changing the long-standing force structure and troop distribution of the land and territorial defense types, and realizing the overall and revolutionary reshaping of the organizational structure and force system of our army.

We have reorganized the pattern of struggle, resolutely defended the core interests of the country, and effectively resolved the outstanding problems in the use of military force. In recent years, the international situation has undergone new, complex and profound changes, and China's security and development needs have been expanding. General Secretary Xi Jinping has led the formulation of military strategic guidelines under the new situation, and has made positive efforts in expanding the depth of active defense strategy, accelerating the expansion of military forces, and developing new security fields. It has focused its preparations for military struggles on winning information-based local wars, highlighted military struggles at sea and preparations for military struggles, and organized a series of major military operations, especially the major progress made in the construction of islands and reefs in the South China Sea and the commissioning of the support base in Djibouti, thus effectively safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests. Our army has effectively responded to emergencies in various strategic directions, not only with firm will and quality, but also with strengthened the application of strategy and tactics, thus maintaining overall strategic stability.

We have reconstructed the layout of construction and innovated the concept and method of development, thus effectively solving the outstanding problems of insufficient focus on actual combat and low quality and efficiency in the construction of our army. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized: "The army must be prepared for war, and all work must adhere to the standard of combat effectiveness and focus on being able to fight and win wars." "The whole army has a clear-cut banner and adheres to the orientation of preparing for and fighting wars, the awareness of combat teams has been significantly enhanced, and the ability to fight and win wars has been effectively improved. It has established the strategic guidance of "five more emphasis", formulated and implemented the "13th Five-Year Plan" for army building and development, vigorously grasped military training in actual combat, accelerated the development of new combat forces, built logistics for all purposes of fighting wars, developed high-tech weapons and equipment, built a new type of military personnel training system and a new type of military scientific research system, strengthened national defense mobilization, border and sea air defense, and military foreign affairs, and promoted the development of military-civilian integration into the fast lane, and the quality and efficiency of our army's construction have been markedly improved.

We have re-established our work style and image, vigorously promoted healthy practices, discipline, and anti-corruption, and effectively solved the conspicuous problems of the breeding and spread of unhealthy trends and corruption. General Secretary Xi Jinping insisted on improving the style of work as a breakthrough in promoting various tasks, starting from the Military Commission itself, starting from senior cadres, stepping on the stone to leave a mark, grasping the iron traces, and making great efforts to rectify the "four winds" and rectify the discipline. Persist in opposing corruption and cracking down on corruption, insisting on no forbidden areas, full coverage, and zero tolerance, showing the determination and courage of scraping bones to cure poison and breaking the wrists of strong men, and unswervingly advancing the anti-corruption struggle, and a large number of corrupt elements have been brought to justice. We should actively build a system of restraint and supervision over the exercise of power, strengthen discipline inspection, inspection, and audit supervision, completely stop paid military service, and eradicate the breeding ground for corruption. After several years of grasping the situation like a day, our army's good traditions and good work style have gradually returned, the party and the people's spirit have been greatly invigorated, the morale of the army has been greatly boosted, and a strong positive energy has been gathered to strengthen the army and rejuvenate the army.

These historic achievements and historic changes are fundamentally due to the strong leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the core of the CPC Central Committee, the core of the whole Party and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army. Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the army, leading the practice of strengthening the army and sublimating it into the practice of strengthening the army, is the crystallization of the practical experience and wisdom of the people's army since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and is the fundamental achievement of the struggle to build and govern the army in the new era.