The significance of China's national defense

China's national defense unswervingly pursues a defensive national defense policy. China's national defense has always given top priority to safeguarding national sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and security.

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's national defense unswervingly pursues an independent foreign policy of peace, and advocates handling international affairs from the fundamental interests of the Chinese people and the people of the world, and does not form an alliance 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.

Extended data

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

1. 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'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.

2. 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.

3. Implement 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.

4. 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.

5. Maintain world peace and oppose 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.

People's Republic of China (PRC)'s Ministry of National Defense website-China's national defense white paper