Mao Zedong attached great importance to and emphasized the extreme importance of the army. 1927 In his speech at the emergency meeting of the Central Committee on August 7, he proposed that the new Politburo Standing Committee "should pay great attention to the military in the future. It should be noted that the regime comes from the barrel of a gun. " Later, it was pointed out that "without the people's army, there would be nothing for the people" and that "to defeat the enemy, we must first rely on the army with guns in our hands". In the long-term struggle practice, Mao Zedong founded a set of army-building theories and principles, among which the main ones are:
1. Serving the people wholeheartedly is the sole purpose of the people's army, and all actions of the army are required to conform to this purpose.
2. Put the people's armed forces under the absolute leadership of the China Production Party. Adhere to the principle that the party commands guns, and never allow guns to command the party. In order to ensure the Party's absolute leadership over the army, the General Political Department was established in the People's Liberation Army as the highest political leading organ of the whole army, and under the unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, it managed the work of the Party in the army. Implement the dual leadership system of the military system and local party committees over the military; Establish party organizations at all levels in the army, with branches built in companies; Set up political commissars and political organs in units above the regiment level; Implement the division of labor and responsibility system for heads under the collective leadership of the party Committee.
3, clearly defined the nature and tasks of the people's army. The people's army is an armed group that carries out revolutionary political tasks, and it is a tool to carry out the party's program, complete revolutionary political tasks, seize political power and consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat. It will always be a combat team, and it will also undertake the tasks of a task force and a production team. We should be vigilant and defend our motherland.
4. Establish a strong political work system of the People's Army. Mao Zedong pointed out: "The political work of the Chinese Production Party in the China People's Liberation Army is the lifeline of our army." Strong revolutionary political work is an important factor in uniting us and defeating the enemy. To determine the policy of political work in the army is to mobilize soldiers, commanders and all staff to achieve three major goals of high political unity, improvement of life and improvement of technology and tactics in the army through the democratic movement under centralized leadership; Implement the three principles of unity between officers and men, unity between the army and the people, and disintegration of the enemy's political work; Implement political democracy, economic democracy and military democracy; Implement the unity of officers and men and the unity of the army and the people; Carry out the campaign of supporting the government and loving the people.
5. Pay attention to the construction of military discipline and work style. It is pointed out that the strict and unified discipline and excellent style of work of the army are the guarantee for the victory of the revolutionary war. Strengthen discipline, the revolution is invincible. Raise discipline to the height of unity and prohibition. It is required to strictly implement the "three major disciplines and eight attentions". Attach importance to the construction of fine style of work in the army. Need to persist and develop. The style of hard struggle; Brave fighting, not afraid of sacrifice, not afraid of fatigue and continuous fighting style, not afraid of suffering and not afraid of death, and so on.
6. Pay attention to military art research and strictly train soldiers. Mao Zedong pointed out that in order to destroy all enemies, officers and men of the whole army must conduct military theoretical research and training campaigns, and everyone should learn two sets of skills to destroy the enemy and arouse the people. Put forward the principle of paying equal attention to military training and political training, and carry out mass training campaigns for officials, instructors and soldiers. Strengthen military training by taking advantage of combat gaps. Only by emphasizing strict training and demanding troops can we fight. The troops are required to learn and master the latest tactics with the development of equipment.
7. The historical task of strengthening the modernization and regularization of the armed forces is put forward, and the armed forces are required to gradually develop from a low-level stage to an advanced stage to ensure the completion of the task of safeguarding the security of the motherland.