What are the main elements of China's defense policy

Defensive policy.

China unswervingly follows the path of peaceful development and unswervingly pursues a defensive national defense policy, which is determined by China's path of development, fundamental mission, foreign policy and historical and cultural traditions, and is a strategic choice made by the Chinese government and people on the basis of the trend of the times and their own fundamental interests.

The main bases of the national defense policy are: the analysis of the international environment and its judgment of the opportunities and threats to national security; the national goals, national defense strategy, and military doctrines determined for the realization of the national security interests; the realistic national defense issues that often arise and are of great importance; and the limitations and needs of the country's policies in other areas such as politics, diplomacy, economy, science and technology, and society.

Expanded Information:

China's national defense policy main content:

I. Adherence to the leadership of the C***nese Communist Party in national defense

Adherence to the C***nese Communist Party's leadership of national defense, especially of the armed forces, is a successful experience in carrying out national defense construction and military struggle.

II. Determining the correct basic objectives and duties

Consolidating national defense, resisting aggression, stopping armed subversion, and defending the country's sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity, and security are the basic objectives of China's national defense policy, and are also the main duties assigned to China's armed forces by the Chinese Constitution.

Third, the correct handling of the relationship between national defense construction and economic construction

National defense construction is subordinate to and serves the overall situation of the country's economic construction, and the coordinated development of national defense construction and economic construction is a long-term basic policy for China's national defense construction.

Fourth: Implementing the military strategy of active defense

China strategically applies the principles of defense, self-defense and pre-emptive measures, and adheres to the principle that "if no one commits an offense against me, I will not commit any crime, but if someone commits an offense against me, I will definitely commit a crime".

V. Building and consolidating national defense independently and autonomously

China's social system, foreign policy, historical tradition and natural geography determine that China must build and consolidate its national defense independently and autonomously.

Sixth, the implementation of the combination of the military and the people, the whole people self-defense

In the national defense construction and the national defense struggle, we should inherit and carry forward the fine tradition of the people's war, resolutely relying on the strength of the masses of the people, and adhere to the principle of the combination of the military and the people, and the self-defense of the whole people.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China - China's National Defense Policy