China's traditional strategic thought refers to

Strategic thinking is the basic viewpoint guiding war. Including the preparation and implementation of war and the construction and use of armed forces. It is the theoretical basis for formulating national defense policies, strategic guidelines, operational principles and military training. It is constantly enriched and developed with the development of war guidance practice. The value of strategic thinking depends on the degree of reflecting the objective laws and development trends of war. Advanced strategic thinking plays an important guiding role in winning the war.

Strategic thinking is the result of systematic thinking activities of a certain class or social group to study and understand military strategic issues.

When a strategic idea is adopted by the highest authorities, it becomes the strategic guiding ideology of a country or military group. Advanced strategic thinking plays an important guiding role in winning the war. The formation and development of strategic thought are restricted by certain social, historical, political, military, economic, geographical, scientific, technological and cultural conditions. Generally speaking, a class, country or political group that can grasp the social and historical development trend or master advanced science and technology can put forward more advanced strategic ideas. Different countries, classes and their strategic thinkers put forward their own strategic ideas from the interests of their respective countries and classes, so they have distinct class nature. The strategic thoughts in different historical periods are all adapted to the social material production level and combat capability at that time, so they have the characteristics of the times. For example, the ancient society based on agriculture and handicrafts could only put forward the strategic idea of fighting with cold weapons mainly on land or at sea; With the development of modern large-scale industry, strategic ideas such as "mechanized warfare theory", "Air Force Winning Theory" and "Sea Power Theory" came into being. The strategic thoughts formed in history are the crystallization of strategic guiding experience and reflect the objective laws of war to varying degrees, so there is inheritance between the strategic thoughts of past dynasties. When drawing lessons from these ideas, we must consider the characteristics of both sides of the war, focus on the development of the war, learn from their strengths and use them for our own use. China is the first country to form strategic thoughts, and the theoretical value of Sun Tzu's strategic thoughts has been recognized by the world.