The content of military logistics

This is an important guarantee for the construction of the army, whether it is the late Qing Dynasty New Army or the Kuomintang army, generally modeled on the logistical system of the Western army. Roughly divided into two aspects: first, the establishment of specialized logistical institutions. Yuan Shikai from the new army to the formation of the Beiyang Army, and gradually improve the logistical institutions, in the headquarters of the Bureau of Food and Rations, Ordnance Bureau, Bureau of Transit, Bureau of Military Medicine, each battalion set up the corresponding specialized members and medical officers, clear responsibilities, specializing in their own affairs. For example, the Bureau of Rations and Payroll sent officers to meet with the battalion commanders and battalion paymasters in the playground every month for roll call, and the Bureau of Military Medicine was responsible for instructing battalion medical officers and helping to prepare for the establishment of military hospitals. After the establishment of the National Government, the Executive Yuan set up the Ministry of Military Affairs, under the Quartermaster General's Office, under the jurisdiction of the General Affairs Division, Accounting Division, Reserve Division, Construction Division, Audit Division, etc.; under the Military Commission also set up the Office of Military Affairs, under the jurisdiction of the six departments of aviation, transportation, military law, ordnance, military affairs, and military medicine. Later, it also set up a rear service department, health service department, etc., so that its logistical institutions continue to improve, closer to the western army's logistical institutions and facilities. Second, the sound logistics supply system. The new army's logistics supply system has improved, but the main thing is to receive the military industry organized by the foreign affairs movement, such as the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, Jinling Machine Manufacturing Bureau and so on. This was the main source of some of the army's partial weapons. To the national government, in order to improve the logistical supply system, in addition to the expansion and reorganization of the above arsenal

factories, and in the country opened a number of new arsenal, set up a large-scale material reserve bases and warehouses. Until the outbreak of the war, in addition to the Navy stuck in the "financial constraints, failed to make a lot of construction", the Air Force built the Hangzhou Central Aircraft Factory, Nanchang Central Aircraft Factory, Pingxiang China Aviation Equipment Company Limited, Shaoguan Aircraft Manufacturing Plant. Navy set up an aircraft manufacturing plant in Shanghai Gaochang Temple, and in Nanjing, Nanchang, Luoyang, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Chongqing built aircraft repair shops. Army in Pingxiang and other places to prepare for the construction of the quilt factory, in Luoyang and other places to open the grain socks factory, in Nanjing, Hankou, Kaifeng, Luoyang and other places to open the reserve warehouse, reserves of various types of ordnance and ammunition. The gradual improvement of the logistic supply system is another significant sign of the modernization of the Chinese army.

The Chinese ****production party has always attached importance to the army's logistical work, that the material conditions of clothing, food, housing, transportation, and weapons and technical equipment, as well as firearms and ammunition, is the basis of the army's survival and combat. During the Jinggangshan period, Mao Zedong already proposed to strengthen the army's logistics as the main method of consolidating revolutionary bases: "First, build complete fortifications; second, stockpile sufficient food; and third, build better Red Army hospitals." He pointed out, "In particular, it is urgent to make the Red Army's supplies more adequate. This is urgently needed." Mao Zedong's emphasis on "specialness" and "urgency" was put forward in view of the fact that the People's Army was in a situation where "food was difficult, money was difficult, and hospitals for the wounded were difficult". In fact, the People's Army's logistical work has completely different characteristics from those of other Chinese armies, namely, it emphasizes the principle of economic democracy in running logistics; it emphasizes relying on the people to run logistics; it emphasizes running logistics from a practical point of view; and it emphasizes running logistics by increasing production and saving money. These principles had played a great role in the frequent war years and in the difficult environment where there was basically no rear area. For example, during the war of resistance, Mao Zedong and the Party Central Committee dispatched the 359th Brigade to cultivate and train troops in Nanniwan, calling on all officers and soldiers to carry out a campaign of mass production, which strengthened the army's logistical support and ushered in a new situation in which "do-it-yourselfers are well-fed and well-coated". In the long years of revolutionary struggle, the People's Army has formed a set of guidelines, principles and fine traditions of logistics, for the construction of a modern army with Chinese characteristics, provides valuable experience.