What national defense policy does China pursue?

The Government of China unswervingly pursues a defensive national defense policy. The Constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC) clearly stipulates that the tasks of People's Republic of China (PRC)'s armed forces are to consolidate national defense, resist aggression, defend the motherland, safeguard the people's peaceful labor, participate in national construction and strive to serve the people. China's national interests, social system, foreign policy and historical and cultural traditions determine that China must implement a defensive national defense policy.

China has always given top priority to safeguarding national sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and security. 1840 After the Opium War, China gradually became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country, and the Chinese nation was repeatedly invaded, oppressed and bullied by imperialist powers. The people of China have achieved national independence and national liberation through a long and heroic struggle, so they cherish their hard-won right to independence. Defending the motherland, resisting aggression, maintaining unity and opposing separatism are the starting point and the end result of China's national defense policy.

China is in the primary stage of socialism, and the fundamental task of the country is to concentrate on socialist modernization. China has a large population, a weak foundation, unbalanced regional development and underdeveloped productive forces, and this situation will continue to exist for a long time. China is facing an extremely heavy task of economic construction, and national defense construction must obey and serve the overall situation of national economic construction. The social system, development strategy and lifestyle that China has chosen in line with its national conditions will not cause aggression to other countries.

The development of China needs a long-term international peaceful environment, especially a good surrounding environment. China unswervingly pursues an independent foreign policy of peace, and advocates handling international affairs in the fundamental interests of the Chinese people and the people of the world, and does not form alliances with any big country or group of countries; Advocate peaceful settlement of disputes and disputes between countries through consultation, oppose resorting to or threatening to use force, and oppose hegemonism and power politics; It advocates establishing a just and reasonable new international political and economic order on the basis of the Five Principles of Peace and developing friendly and cooperative relations with all countries. China will always be an important force for maintaining world peace and regional stability. Even if China becomes strong in the future, it will never take the road of foreign aggression and expansion.

China's defensive national defense policy also stems from China's historical and cultural traditions. China is a country with a history of 5,000 years of civilization and a peace-loving tradition. China's ancient thinkers once put forward the idea of "being kind to others and being kind to others", which reflects that the people of China have been hoping for world peace and getting along well with people of other countries since ancient times. This kind of thinking is manifested in the military, that is, it advocates solving disputes by non-military means, treating war cautiously and carrying out strategic strikes against the enemy. In the historical process of thousands of years, loving peace, emphasizing defense, seeking reunification, promoting national unity and resisting foreign aggression have always been the themes of China's national defense concept. The national defense policy of New China inherits and develops China's excellent historical and cultural traditions.

China's national defense policy mainly includes the following contents:

-Consolidate national defense, resist aggression, stop armed subversion, and safeguard national sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and security. This is the basic goal of China's national defense policy, and it is also the main duty entrusted to China's armed forces by China's Constitution. China strives to avoid and stop wars and to resolve international disputes and historical issues by peaceful means. However, when hegemonism and power politics still exist, a country must be able to defend its sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and security by military means. China's national defense modernization is entirely for self-defense, which is the need to ensure national modernization and security. The size of China's armed forces is commensurate with the need to safeguard national security and interests. China independently builds and consolidates its national defense.

-National defense construction obeys and serves the overall situation of national economic construction, and national defense construction and economic construction develop in harmony. This is a long-term basic policy of China's national defense construction. National defense modernization needs the support of national economic strength and technical strength, and the level of national defense modernization can only be gradually improved with the enhancement of national economic strength. The state insists on taking economic construction as the center, national defense construction must obey and serve this overall situation, and the army actively participates in and supports national economic construction. While concentrating on economic construction, the state strengthens national defense construction and promotes the coordinated development of national defense construction and economic construction.

-implementing the military strategic policy of active defense. Strategically, China adheres to the principles of defense, self-defense and attacking the enemy from behind, and insists that "if people don't attack me, I won't attack, and if people attack me, I will attack". China possesses a small number of nuclear weapons solely for self-defense. China adheres to the principle of national self-defense and the strategic thought of people's war, strengthens the concept of national defense, improves the national defense mobilization system and strengthens the construction of national defense reserve forces; Based on the existing weapons and equipment, inherit and carry forward the fine traditions; Adapt to the profound changes in the world military field and prepare for defensive operations under modern technology, especially high-tech conditions.

-Take the road of elite soldiers with China characteristics. In the new historical period, China's army is striving to strengthen quality construction and take the road of elite soldiers with China characteristics, with the goal of building a revolutionary, modernized and regularized people's army with China characteristics. Reducing quantity and improving quality is a basic policy of military modernization. China's army relies on science and technology to strengthen the army and realize the transformation from quantity-scale type to quality-benefit type and from manpower-intensive type to technology-intensive type. According to the characteristics of modern warfare, we should strive to improve the modernization level of weapons and equipment, reform and improve the military system, and improve the content and methods of military training and college education.

-safeguarding world peace and opposing aggression and expansion. China adheres to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, independently handles foreign military relations, conducts military exchanges and cooperation, and does not engage in hegemonism, military blocs or military expansion, and does not station troops or establish military bases abroad. China opposes the arms race and advocates effective arms control and disarmament on the basis of justice, rationality, comprehensiveness and balance. China supports the actions taken by the international community that are conducive to maintaining world and regional peace, security and stability, and supports the efforts made by the international community to solve international disputes, arms control and disarmament issues fairly and reasonably.