Deepen National Defense Education for All in the New Era, Gather Positive Energy for Patriotism and a Strong Military

General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized that our national defense is the defense of the entire people, and that advancing the modernization of national defense and the armed forces is a common cause of the entire Party and the entire nation. National defense education for all is a foundational project for building a solid national defense and a strong people’s military, and an effective way to promote the spirit of patriotism and enhance the national defense awareness of the entire people. The 11th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress voted to pass the newly revised *Law of the People’s Republic of China on National Defense Education* (hereinafter referred to as the “National Defense Education Law”), which comprehensively implements General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on strengthening national defense education for all and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, actively adapts to the new situation of the modernization of national defense and the armed forces and the new changes in the national defense concept of the entire people, and makes a series of new norms and new requirements for the field of national defense education for all. This is of great significance for accelerating the construction and improvement of a new pattern of national defense education for all and raising the level of law-based governance in national defense education for all. Jiangxi is the cradle of the Chinese Revolution, the cradle of the People’s Republic, the cradle of the People’s Army, and the birthplace of the Chinese workers’ movement. We must make good and full use of the rich red resources, make every effort to ensure that the newly revised National Defense Education Law takes root in the land of Jiangxi, and continuously gather the powerful positive energy of patriotism and a strong military.

习近平总书记强调，我们的国防是全民的国防，推进国防和军队现代化是全党全国人民的共同事业。全民国防教育是建设巩固国防和强大人民军队的基础性工程，是弘扬爱国主义精神、增强全民国防意识的有效途径。十四届全国人大常委会第十一次会议表决通过新修订的《中华人民共和国国防教育法》（以下简称“国防教育法”），全面贯彻落实习近平总书记关于加强全民国防教育的重要论述和党中央决策部署，主动适应国防和军队现代化建设新形势、全民国防观念新变化，对全民国防教育领域作出一系列新规范新要求，对于加速构建完善全民国防教育新格局、提升全民国防教育法治化水平具有重大意义。江西是中国革命的摇篮、人民共和国的摇篮、人民军队的摇篮和中国工人运动的策源地。要用好用活丰富的红色资源，全力推动新修订的国防教育法在赣鄱大地落地生根，不断汇聚起爱国强军的强大正能量。

I. Improve the Education System at Multiple Levels, Build a “Spiritual Cornerstone” for Esteeming the Military and Advocating Martial Spirit

一、多层次完善教育体系，筑牢崇军尚武的“精神基石”

This revision of the National Defense Education Law puts forward new requirements for social national defense education, school national defense education, and other aspects. We must focus on building a multi-level, multi-field, and wide-coverage national defense education system for all. Based on the cognitive characteristics and acceptance habits of different targets, we should promote the combination of regular education and centralized education, the combination of universal education and key education, and the combination of theoretical education and behavioral education, so that esteeming the military and advocating martial spirit becomes a pursuit of the times that guides the value orientation of society.

这次国防教育法修订，对社会国防教育、学校国防教育等方面提出了新的要求。我们要着眼于构建分层次、多领域、广覆盖的全民国防教育体系，根据不同对象的认知特点和接受习惯，推动经常教育与集中教育相结合、普及教育与重点教育相结合、理论教育与行为教育相结合，让崇军尚武成为引领社会价值取向的时代追求。

First, focus tightly on the “key minority.” [1]1 “Key minority” (关键少数) is a term used by the CPC to refer to leading cadres, especially those at senior levels, whose exemplary role is considered crucial for the success of Party policies. Leading cadres are the key to national defense education for all. The newly revised National Defense Education Law sets higher standards for personnel in state organs, requiring them to possess a relatively high level of national defense literacy and to play an exemplary and leading role in national defense education for all. We must deeply study and thoroughly comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on national defense education for all, include national defense education in the study plans of the theoretical study center groups of provincial Party committees (Party leadership groups), incorporate it into the learning content of Party schools (schools of administration), socialist colleges, and cadre colleges at all levels, and educate and guide leading cadres at all levels to enhance their national defense concept while deeply studying and thoroughly understanding the Party’s innovative theories. We will explore the establishment of a hierarchical and categorized training system for national defense education for leading cadres, gradually include senior and middle-level leading personnel of state-owned enterprises, principals of schools at all levels, and responsible persons of major news media in the scope of provincial national defense education and training, and strive to enhance the national defense literacy necessary for leading cadres in the New Era to perform their duties.

一是紧盯“关键少数”。领导干部是全民国防教育的关键。新修订的国防教育法，对国家机关工作人员提出了更高标准，要求应当具备较高的国防素养，发挥在全民国防教育中的模范带头作用。我们要深学细悟习近平总书记关于全民国防教育的重要论述，将国防教育列入全省党委（党组）理论学习中心组学习计划，纳入各级党校（行政学院）、社会主义学院、干部学院学习内容，教育引导各级领导干部在学深悟透党的创新理论中增强国防观念。探索建立领导干部国防教育分级分类培训体系，将国有企业中高层领导人员、各级学校校长以及主要新闻媒体负责人逐步纳入全省国防教育培训范围，着力提升新时代领导干部履职尽责所必需的国防素养。

Second, focus on the “top priority.” [2]2 “Top priority” (重中之重) is a standard Chinese political expression meaning the most important item among priorities. Young people are the hope and future of the motherland, and also the top priority of national defense education for all. The newly revised National Defense Education Law supplements and improves the objectives, content, methods, and approaches of national defense education for schools at all levels and of all types, which highlights the importance of national defense education for young people in the New Era. We must take Jiangxi’s promotion of the comprehensive reform pilot zone for “grand ideological-political courses” [3]3 “Grand ideological-political courses” (大思政课) refers to a comprehensive reform initiative to integrate ideological and political education across all subjects and activities in schools, moving beyond standalone courses. as a starting point, combine classroom teaching with military training, promote schools at all levels to create high-quality national defense education courses that are closer to national and provincial conditions and fit the learning situation, and truly sow the seeds of patriotism and a strong military in the hearts of students. Taking the creation of provincial “National Defense Education Demonstration Schools” and “Youth Military Schools” as a guide, we will organize activities such as the paired-up building of “One Hundred Teams Entering One Hundred Schools” by the Armed Police Force and the “August 1st Cup” war-gaming exercises, guiding young people to enhance their feelings for family and country and the spirit of esteeming the military and advocating martial spirit. Relying on provincial patriotism education bases and national defense education bases, we will extensively carry out online and offline special activities such as “Red Study Tours” and “Red Research Studies,” explore new scenarios and new models such as youth military skills experience and expansion training, and inspire young people to develop patriotic hearts, aspirations to serve the country, and actions to strengthen the country through practical experience and understanding.

二是聚焦“重中之重”。青少年是祖国的希望和未来，也是全民国防教育的重中之重。新修订的国防教育法，对各级各类学校的国防教育目标、内容和方法途径等进行了补充完善，这凸显了新时代青少年国防教育的重要性。我们要以江西推进“大思政课”综合改革试验区为抓手，把课堂教学与军事训练结合起来，推动各级学校打造更加贴近国情省情、符合学情的国防教育精品课程，切实把爱国强军的种子播撒在学生心田。以全省“国防教育示范学校”“少年军校”等创建为引领，组织开展武警部队“百队进百校”结对共建、“八一杯”兵棋推演等活动，引导广大青少年增强家国情怀和崇军尚武精神。依托全省爱国主义教育基地和国防教育基地，广泛开展网上网下“红色走读”“红色研学”等特色活动，探索青少年军事技能体验与拓展训练等新场景新模式，让青少年在实践感悟中激发爱国之心、报国之志和强国之行。

Third, emphasize “the entire people and the entire domain.” [4]4 “Entire people and entire domain” (全民全域) is a slogan emphasizing that national defense education should cover every person and every location. Mobilizing the entire people and achieving full coverage is the most effective national defense education. The newly revised National Defense Education Law implements the policy of participation by the entire people, long-term persistence, and emphasis on practical results, requiring all citizens to enhance their national defense concept, strengthen their awareness of potential dangers, master national defense knowledge, and improve national defense skills. This is conducive to creating a strong atmosphere in the whole society of caring for and supporting national defense and military construction. We must promote the popularization and legal education of the newly revised National Defense Education Law as a foundational and long-term task for building a higher level of law-based governance in Jiangxi. Taking National Constitution Day and National Security Education Day for All as nodes, we will strengthen legal education and publicity by level and category, guiding the broad masses of cadres and the people to better respect, study, abide by, and apply the law. We will incorporate national defense education for all into the scope of provincial cultural-ethical progress, promote it in an integrated manner with patriotism education, ideological and moral education, and civilized law-based governance education, and integrate it into provincial civilized practice activities such as the “Four 100s” cultural mentors going to the countryside and “Ten Thousand Artists Going to the Grassroots Level,” so that national defense education becomes part of daily life and enters the mind and heart.

三是注重“全民全域”。全民动员、全域覆盖是最有效的国防教育。新修订的国防教育法，贯彻全民参与、长期坚持、讲求实效的方针，要求全体公民增强国防观念、强化忧患意识、掌握国防知识、提高国防技能，这有利于在全社会营造关心支持国防和军队建设的浓厚氛围。我们要推动新修订的国防教育法普法宣传作为建设更高水平法治江西的基础性、长期性工作，以国家宪法日、全民国家安全教育日等为节点，分级分类加强法治宣传教育，引导广大干部群众更好尊法学法、守法用法。将全民国防教育纳入全省精神文明建设范畴，与爱国主义教育、思想道德教育、文明法治教育等一体推进，融入全省“四个100”文化导师下乡、“万名文艺家下基层”等文明实践活动，使国防教育融入日常、入脑入心。

II. Expand Channels and Carriers in All Directions, Forge a “Great Wall of Steel” for Patriotism and a Strong Military

二、全方位拓展渠道载体，铸就爱国强军的“钢铁长城”

This revision of the National Defense Education Law enriches and expands the methods and channels of national defense education for all, and standardizes media networks and cultural dissemination, mass national defense education activities, and national defense education venues. We must innovate educational methods and enrich educational carriers, make precise efforts in telling national defense stories well, building practical platforms, and creating distinctive brands, and promote the integration of national defense awareness into the bloodline and deep into the heart.

这次国防教育法修订，丰富拓展了全民国防教育的方法和渠道，对媒体网络和文化传播、群众性国防教育活动、国防教育场所等作出规范。我们要创新教育方式、丰富教育载体，在讲好国防故事、搭建实践平台、打造特色品牌上精准发力，推动国防意识融入血脉、浸入心扉。

First, tell national defense stories at a high level. Telling stories well is an important way to carry out national defense education for all. The newly revised National Defense Education Law requires innovating methods of publicity and reporting, adopting various forms and channels to carry out national defense education and popularize national defense knowledge. This is an inevitable requirement for adapting to the current changes in the public opinion ecosystem, media landscape, and communication methods. We must promote the “cloud-based, data-empowered, and digitally enabled” national defense education for all, rely on the Jiangxi Media Brain, make good use of the three-level (provincial, city, county) integrated media communication system, launch special columns, news reports, and integrated media products on national defense education, and tell the wonderful stories of Jiangxi’s dedication to national defense and love for the military and support for the army. Focusing on major revolutionary themes such as the “Three 100th Anniversaries” of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army, the Autumn Harvest Uprising, and the establishment of the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base, as well as the revitalization of the Soviet Area, we will create and produce a batch of high-quality works, such as the film series *The Volunteers* and the TV series *Facing Death*, that promote patriotism, a strong military, and dedication to national defense, better writing for the cause of national defense, expressing emotions for the spirit of national defense, and singing praises for the achievements of national defense. Taking the creation of the “Virtue Nourishes Jiangxi” good-person cultural brand as a starting point, we will organize the selection and promotion of typical models such as “Most Beautiful Veterans” and “Good Militiamen Dedicated to National Defense,” using typical stories and the power of role models to guide the broad masses of cadres and the people to enhance their national defense awareness and cultivate national defense sentiments.

一是高水平讲好国防故事。讲好故事是开展全民国防教育的重要方式。新修订的国防教育法，要求创新宣传报道方式，采取多种形式和途径开展国防教育、普及国防知识，这是适应当前舆论生态、媒体格局、传播方式变革的必然要求。我们要推动全民国防教育“上云用数赋能”，依托江西融媒大脑，用好省市县三级融媒体传播体系，推出国防教育专题专栏、新闻报道和融媒体产品，讲好赣鄱大地情系国防、爱军拥军的精彩故事。聚焦中国人民解放军建军、秋收起义、井冈山革命根据地创建“三个100周年”和苏区振兴等重大革命题材，创作推出电影《志愿军》系列、电视剧《向死而生》等一批爱国强军、献身国防的精品力作，更好为国防事业书写、为国防精神抒情、为国防成就放歌。以打造“德润赣鄱”好人文化品牌为抓手，组织开展“最美退役军人”“情系国防”好民兵等典型选树推介，以典型的故事、榜样的力量引导广大干部群众增强国防意识，培养国防情感。

Second, build practical carriers with high efficiency. Doing a good job of national defense education for all cannot be separated from diversified practical carriers. The newly revised National Defense Education Law further enriches and expands practical carriers, especially adding clauses such as “utilizing major festivals, commemorative days, and major thematic activities to extensively carry out mass national defense education activities.” We must coordinate military and local resources and forces, accelerate the construction of national defense education venues such as the Jiangxi Revolutionary Military Museum and the Revolutionary Military Culture Street, encourage the construction of national defense education theme parks, theme blocks, theme squares, and other venues in various places, and better promote national defense education to reach the masses and penetrate people’s hearts. Relying on the more than 2,900 revolutionary former residences, former sites, and revolutionary memorial halls and museums spread across the province, we will strengthen technological empowerment through artificial intelligence, large models, etc., build and make good use of digital platforms such as the digital exhibition hall of Jiangxi Province’s patriotism education bases, create more immersive, experiential, and interactive new scenarios, and continuously enhance the contemporaneity and appeal of national defense education. Using important time nodes such as Army Day, National Day, and National Defense Education Day for All, we will organize mass publicity and education activities such as the National Defense Literacy Competition for All and the “National Defense Ten Thousand Screenings” public welfare film screenings, promoting national defense education for all to heat up at the grassroots level and among the masses.

二是高效能搭建实践载体。抓好全民国防教育，离不开多元化的实践载体。新修订的国防教育法，进一步丰富拓展了实践载体，尤其是新增“利用重大节日、纪念日和重大主题活动等，广泛开展群众性国防教育活动”等条款。我们要统筹军地资源力量，加快推进江西革命军事博物馆、革命军事文化街等国防教育阵地建设，鼓励各地建设国防教育主题公园、主题街区、主题广场等场所，更好推动国防教育走进群众、深入人心。依托遍布全省的2900余处革命旧居旧址和革命纪念馆博物馆，强化人工智能、大模型等技术赋能，建好用好江西省爱国主义教育基地数字展馆等数字化平台，打造更多沉浸式、体验式、互动式新场景，不断增强国防教育的时代性和感染力。利用建军节、国庆节、全民国防教育日等重要时间节点，组织开展全民国防素养大赛、“国防万映”公益电影展映等群众性宣传教育活动，推动全民国防教育热在基层、热在群众。

Third, create distinctive brands from a high starting point. Red culture is Jiangxi’s most dazzling calling card and a distinctive advantage for doing a good job of national defense education for all. The newly revised National Defense Education Law explicitly states that the educational function of red resources shall be leveraged to carry out national defense education. We must formulate and implement the *Jiangxi Province Plan for Building a Pilot Zone for Inheriting Red Genes (2024–2028)*, promote the integration of national defense education into research on the revolutionary spirit, red education and training, and the integration of red culture and tourism, and create a batch of national defense education brands for all that carry forward the red bloodline and have the characteristics of the times. We must build and make good use of the National Research Center for Inheriting Red Genes, deepen research and interpretation of the spiritual pedigree of Chinese Communists, including the great founding spirit of the Party, the Jinggangshan Spirit, the Soviet Area Spirit, and the Long March Spirit, and summarize and refine a batch of spiritual symbols unique to Jiangxi. We must strengthen red education and training, with Jinggangshan, Ruijin, and other places as key points, solidly advance the construction of national demonstration zones for red training and red study tours, and continuously raise the level of professionalization and branding of red education and training.

三是高起点打造特色品牌。红色文化是江西最闪亮的名片，是抓好全民国防教育的特色优势。新修订的国防教育法，明确提出发挥红色资源教育功能开展国防教育。我们要编制实施《江西省建设红色基因传承先行区规划（2024—2028年）》，推动国防教育融入革命精神研究、红色教育培训、红色文旅融合等方面，打造一批赓续红色血脉、具有时代特色的全民国防教育品牌。建强用好全国红色基因传承研究中心，深化伟大建党精神和井冈山精神、苏区精神、长征精神等中国共产党人精神谱系研究阐释，总结提炼一批独具赣鄱特色的精神标识。做强红色教育培训，以井冈山、瑞金等地为重点，扎实推进全国红色培训、红色研学示范区建设，不断提升红色教育培训专业化品牌化发展水平。

III. Build a three-dimensional work pattern to forge a “solid defense line” for national defense education

三、立体化构建工作格局，共筑国防教育的“坚固防线”

This revision of the National Defense Education Law has made improvements in strengthening organizational leadership, reinforcing military-local coordination, and consolidating foundational guarantees. We must improve the work mechanism, perfect institutional safeguards, and accelerate the construction of a new pattern for national defense education for all that spans regions, systems, departments, and businesses.

这次国防教育法修订，在加强组织领导、强化军地协同、夯实基础保障等方面作了完善。我们要健全工作机制，完善制度保障，加快构建跨区域、跨系统、跨部门、跨业务的全民国防教育工作新格局。

First, exert effort in perfecting the leadership system. Party leadership is the fundamental guarantee for promoting the high-quality development of national defense education for all in the New Era. The newly revised National Defense Education Law further improves the systems and mechanisms for Party leadership over national defense education work, and adjusts the national defense education functions borne by the military and local Party committees and governments at all levels to be uniformly the responsibility of the Party Central Committee and local Party committees at all levels. We must deepen the construction of the leadership mechanism for national defense education for all at the city and county levels, further tighten and consolidate responsibilities, standardize work operations, and promote the formation of an organizational leadership system with unified leadership by Party committees, clear duties and responsibilities, smooth communication and coordination, and strong work supervision. The Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee should play a leading and coordinating role, strengthen guidance, supervision, and overall coordination of national defense education for all work at all levels in the province, and ensure that all work is standardized, institutionalized, and normalized. We will organize the revision of policy regulations such as the *Jiangxi Province National Defense Education Regulations*, further clarify the work responsibilities of military-related and local departments and mass organizations, and promote grassroots units such as enterprises, villages, schools, street communities, and social organizations to organize national defense education for their own localities, departments, and units, striving to open up the “last kilometer” of national defense education for all.

一是在完善领导体系上发力。党的领导是推动新时代全民国防教育高质量发展的根本保证。新修订的国防教育法，进一步完善党领导国防教育工作的体制机制，将军队以及地方各级党委、政府担负的国防教育职能统一调整由党中央和地方各级党委负责。我们要深化市县两级全民国防教育领导机制建设，进一步压紧压实责任、规范工作运行，推动形成党委统一领导、职责任务明确、沟通协调顺畅、工作督导有力的组织领导体系。省委宣传部发挥好牵头抓总作用，加强对全省各级全民国防教育工作的指导、监督和统筹协调，确保各项工作规范化制度化常态化开展。组织修订《江西省国防教育条例》等政策法规，进一步明晰涉军涉地部门和群团工作职责，推动企业、农村、机关、学校、街道社区、社会组织等基层单位组织好本地本部门本单位的国防教育，着力打通全民国防教育“最后一公里”。

Second, exert effort in deepening military-local coordination. Military-local coordination and cooperation is a powerful lever for carrying out national defense education for all. The newly revised National Defense Education Law clearly stipulates the obligations of the military in carrying out national defense education, including provisions such as “local military organs shall assist schools in organizing student military training,” which helps promote the establishment of an efficient, smooth, and flexible military-local coordination mechanism. We must improve and perfect work mechanisms such as military-local joint meetings, joint offices, and consultation on important matters, to better smooth the military-local cooperation chain for national defense education for all. We must coordinate resources such as decommissioned military equipment and national defense education positions, actively support and cooperate with troops stationed in Jiangxi in carrying out military camp open activities, and attract cadres and the masses to receive the edification of national defense education through visits, experiences, exchanges, and interactions. We must make good use of the forces of the Provincial Military Command, the Army Infantry Academy, and troops stationed in Jiangxi, and carry out targeted special lectures for Party and government organs, enterprises and institutions, universities, primary and secondary schools, etc., across the province, promoting national defense education into organs, schools, enterprises, communities, villages, and the internet.

二是在深化军地协同上发力。军地协同配合是开展全民国防教育的有力抓手。新修订的国防教育法，对军队开展国防教育的义务作出了明确规定，提出“驻地军事机关应当协助学校组织学生军事训练”等规定，这有助于推动建立高效、顺畅、灵活的军地协同机制。我们要健全完善军地联席会议、联合办公、要事会商等工作机制，更好畅通全民国防教育军地协作链路。统筹好部队退役武器装备、国防教育阵地等资源，积极支持和配合驻赣部队开展军营开放活动，吸引广大干部群众在参观体验、交流互动中接受国防教育熏陶。用好省军区、陆军步兵学院和驻赣部队等力量，有针对性地面向全省党政机关、企事业单位、大中小学等开展专题授课，推动国防教育进机关、进学校、进企业、进社区、进乡村、进网络。

Third, exert effort in strengthening support and guarantees. National defense education for all is a long-term task that requires sustained effort and cannot be separated from strong support and guarantees. The newly revised National Defense Education Law has further improved the original systems for national defense education funding guarantees, social donations, and cultural relic protection. We must strengthen team building, establish a national defense education expert database for all, promote the selection and allocation of strong workforces by national defense education work institutions at all levels, organize and carry out education and training and practical exercises, and continuously improve work capacity and levels. We must strengthen funding guarantees, promote the inclusion of national defense education funds in budgets at all levels across the province, and encourage enterprises, institutions, social organizations, and individuals to donate and fund the cause of national defense education for all. We must do a good job of inspection and evaluation, promote the inclusion of national defense education for all work in the province’s economic and social development “15th Five-Year Plan” [5]5 The “15th Five-Year Plan” refers to the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People’s Republic of China, covering the years 2026-2030., target performance assessment, ideological inspection and patrols, and the creation of cultural-ethical progress in various localities, and use the results of inspection and evaluation as a reference for the comprehensive assessment and evaluation of leading bodies and relevant leading cadres at all levels, so that caring for national defense, loving national defense, building national defense, and defending national defense become common practice in Jiangxi.

三是在强化支撑保障上发力。全民国防教育是一项久久为功的工作，离不开强有力的支撑保障。新修订的国防教育法，对于原有的国防教育经费保障、社会捐助、文物保护等制度作了进一步完善。我们要加强队伍建设，建立全民国防教育专家库，推动各级国防教育工作机构选优配强工作力量，组织开展教育培训和实践锻炼，不断提高工作能力和水平。强化经费保障，推动全省各地将国防教育经费纳入预算，鼓励企业事业组织、社会组织和个人捐助资助全民国防教育事业。抓好检查考评，推动全民国防教育工作纳入全省经济社会发展“十五五”规划、目标绩效考核、意识形态巡视巡察、各地精神文明创建等内容，将检查考评结果作为各级领导班子和有关领导干部综合考核评价的参考，让关心国防、热爱国防、建设国防、保卫国防在赣鄱大地蔚然成风。

(The author is a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department)

（作者为江西省委常委、宣传部部长）

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