China’s Military Strategy
China’s Military Strategy
(May 2015)
People’s Republic of China (PRC) the State Council press office
catalogue
foreword
I. National security situation
Second, the military mission and strategic tasks
Third, the strategic policy of active defense
Fourth, the construction and development of military forces
V. Preparation for Military Struggle
VI. Military security cooperation
foreword
Today, the world is facing unprecedented changes, and contemporary China is at a critical stage of reform and development. In the struggle to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the people of China hope to work with other countries to safeguard peace, seek common development and share prosperity.
China is closely linked to the fate of the world. World prosperity and stability are opportunities for China, and the peaceful development of China is also an opportunity for the world. China will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development, pursue an independent foreign policy of peace and a defensive national defense policy, oppose all forms of hegemonism and power politics, and never seek hegemony or expansion. China’s army has always been a staunch force for maintaining world peace.
Building and consolidating national defense and a strong army is the strategic task of China’s modernization and the security guarantee for the country’s peaceful development. Military strategy is the general strategy for planning and guiding the construction and application of military forces, which is subordinate to and serves the national strategic objectives. Standing at a new historical starting point, China’s armed forces adapt to the new changes in the national security environment, closely focus on realizing the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s goal of strengthening the armed forces under the new situation, implement the military strategic policy of active defense under the new situation, accelerate the modernization of national defense and the armed forces, resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests, and provide a strong guarantee for realizing the goal of "two hundred years" and the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
I. National security situation
In today’s era, world multipolarization, economic globalization and social informatization are developing in depth, and the international community is increasingly becoming a community of destiny in which you have me and I have you. Peace, development, cooperation and win-win have become an irresistible trend of the times.
The international situation has undergone profound evolution, and the international power balance, global governance system structure, Asia-Pacific geostrategic pattern and international economic, scientific, technological and military competition pattern are undergoing historic changes. The forces for maintaining peace are rising, and the factors restricting war are increasing. In the foreseeable future, there will be no world war, and the overall peace situation is expected to be maintained. However, hegemonism, power politics and neo-interventionism will have new development, the struggle of various international forces around the redistribution of power and rights and interests will become fierce, terrorist activities will become increasingly active, ethnic and religious contradictions, border and territorial disputes and other hot spots will be complex and changeable, skirmishes, conflicts and frequent crises will remain the norm in some regions, and the world will still face realistic and potential local war threats.
China’s development will still be in an important period of strategic opportunities, and the external environment is generally favorable. The country’s comprehensive national strength, core competitiveness and ability to resist risks have been significantly enhanced, its international status and influence have been significantly improved, people’s lives have been significantly improved, and the overall social situation has remained stable. As a large developing country, China still faces multiple and complex security threats, with increasing external resistance and challenges. The issues of survival security and development security, traditional security threats and non-traditional security threats are intertwined, and the task of safeguarding national unity, territorial integrity and development interests is arduous and arduous.
With the acceleration of the shift of the world economy and strategic focus to the Asia-Pacific region, the United States continues to promote the Asia-Pacific "rebalancing" strategy and strengthen its regional military presence and military alliance system. Japan actively seeks to get rid of the post-war system and substantially adjust its military security policy. The development trend of the country has attracted great attention from regional countries. Individual maritime neighbors have taken provocative actions on issues involving China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, and strengthened their military presence on the illegally "occupied" Chinese island reefs. Some foreign countries are also trying their best to intervene in the South China Sea affairs. Some countries keep high-frequency air and sea close to China for reconnaissance, and the struggle for rights protection in the maritime direction will exist for a long time. Some land territorial disputes still exist. There are many unstable and uncertain factors in the situation on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. The rampant terrorism, separatism and extremism in the region have also adversely affected the security and stability around China.
The Taiwan Province issue is related to national unity and long-term development, and national unity is the historical necessity of the Chinese nation’s great rejuvenation. In recent years, cross-strait relations have maintained a good momentum of peaceful development, but the root causes affecting the stability of the situation in the Taiwan Strait have not been eliminated. The "Taiwan independence" separatist forces and their separatist activities remain the biggest threat to the peaceful development of cross-strait relations. The task of maintaining national political security and social stability is arduous and arduous, and the separatist forces of "East Turkistan" and "Tibet independence" are doing serious harm. In particular, the threat of violent terrorist activities in "East Turkistan" has escalated, and anti-China forces are plotting to create a "color revolution", which poses more challenges to national security and social stability. With the continuous expansion of national interests, international and regional turmoil, terrorism, piracy, major natural disasters and disease epidemics may all pose threats to national security, and overseas interests security issues such as energy resources, strategic passage security and overseas institutions, personnel and assets security are prominent.
The world’s new military revolution is developing in depth, and the weapons and equipment are becoming more precise, intelligent, stealthy and unmanned. Space and cyberspace have become the new commanding heights of strategic competition among all parties, and the form of war has accelerated to an information-based war. Major countries in the world actively adjust their national security strategies and defense policies, step up military transformation, and reshape their military power systems. Revolutionary changes in military technology and war forms have had a great impact on the international political and military situation and brought new and severe challenges to China’s military security.
Second, the military mission and strategic tasks
China’s national strategic goal is to achieve the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way in the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized and harmonious socialist modern country in the centenary of the founding of New China, which is the Chinese dream of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Chinese dream is a dream of a strong country, and it is a dream of a strong army for the military. A strong army can defend the country, and a strong country must strengthen the army. In the new historical period, China’s army takes the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s goal of strengthening the army under the new situation as the general program, unswervingly adheres to the party’s absolute leadership over the army, always regards combat effectiveness as the only fundamental standard, vigorously carries forward the glorious tradition and fine work style, and builds a people’s army that listens to the party’s command, can win battles and has a good work style.
In the new era, the connotation and extension of China’s national security are richer than at any time in history, the space-time field is broader than at any time in history, and the internal and external factors are more complicated than at any time in history. We must adhere to the overall national security concept and make overall plans for internal security and external security, homeland security and national security, traditional security and non-traditional security, survival security and development security, and self-security and common security.
Realizing the national strategic goal and implementing the overall national security concept have put forward new demands for innovative development of military strategy and effective performance of military missions and tasks. It is necessary to adapt to the new requirements of safeguarding national security and development interests, pay more attention to using military forces and means to create a favorable strategic situation, and provide a strong security guarantee for peaceful development; Adapt to the new requirements of the development of the national security situation, constantly innovate strategic guidance and operational thinking, and ensure that we can fight and win the battle; Adapt to the new requirements of the new military revolution in the world, pay close attention to the challenges in the new security field, and strive to grasp the strategic initiative in military competition; Adapt to the new requirements of the development of national strategic interests, actively participate in regional and international security cooperation, and effectively safeguard the security of overseas interests; Adapt to the new requirements of the country’s comprehensive deepening reform, adhere to the road of military-civilian integration, actively support the country’s economic and social construction, resolutely safeguard the overall social stability, and make the army always become the backbone of the party’s consolidation of its ruling position and a reliable force for building Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
China’s army has effectively fulfilled its military mission in the new historical period, resolutely safeguarded the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership and the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system, resolutely safeguarded national sovereignty, security and development interests, resolutely safeguarded the period of important strategic opportunities for national development, resolutely safeguarded regional and world peace, and provided a strong guarantee for building a well-off society in an all-round way and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
China’s army mainly undertakes the following strategic tasks: responding to various emergencies and military threats and effectively safeguarding the sovereignty and security of the country’s territory, airspace and territorial waters; Resolutely defend the reunification of the motherland; Safeguard the security and interests of new fields; Safeguard the safety of overseas interests; Maintain strategic deterrence and organize nuclear counterattacks; Participate in regional and international security cooperation and safeguard regional and world peace; Strengthen the struggle against reverse osmosis, separatism and terrorism, and safeguard national political security and social stability; Responsible for emergency rescue and disaster relief, safeguarding rights and interests, security alert and supporting national economic and social construction.
Third, the strategic policy of active defense
The strategic thought of active defense is the basic point of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s military strategic thought. In the long-term revolutionary war practice, the people’s army has formed a set of active defensive strategic ideas, adhered to the unity of strategic defense and offensive in battle, adhered to the principle of defense, self-defense and taking the initiative after the enemy, and adhered to the principle that "people will not attack me, and I will not commit crimes; If people commit crimes against me, I will commit crimes. "
After the founding of New China, the Central Military Commission established the military strategic policy of active defense, and made many adjustments to the content of the military strategic policy of active defense according to the development and changes of the national security situation. In 1993, the military strategic policy for the new period was formulated, with winning local wars under modern technology, especially high technology, as the basic point for military struggle. In 2004, the military strategic policy in the new period was enriched and improved, and the basic point of preparation for military struggle was further adjusted to win local wars under the conditions of informationization.
The socialist nature of China, the fundamental interests of the country and the objective requirement of taking the road of peaceful development determine that China must unswervingly adhere to the strategic thought of active defense, and at the same time constantly enrich and develop the connotation of this thought. According to the national security and development strategy, adapt to the requirements of the situation and tasks in the new historical period, adhere to the military strategic policy of active defense, keep pace with the times, strengthen military strategic guidance, further broaden strategic vision, update strategic thinking, move forward the focus of guidance, make overall plans for preparing for and stopping wars, safeguarding rights and maintaining stability, deterring and actual combat, war actions and the use of military forces in peacetime, pay attention to far-reaching strategies, shape favorable situations, comprehensively control crises, and resolutely curb and win wars.
Implement the military strategic policy of active defense under the new situation and adjust the basic point of preparation for military struggle. According to the evolution of war forms and the national security situation, the basic point of military struggle preparation should be to win information-based local wars, highlight maritime military struggles and preparations for military struggles, effectively control major crises, properly deal with chain reactions, and resolutely defend national territorial sovereignty, unity and security. Implement the military strategic policy of active defense under the new situation and innovate the basic operational thinking. According to the security threats in all directions and the actual situation of military capacity building, we should adhere to the principle of flexibility and self-determination, and use the integrated combat forces of various services and arms to implement the system of information-led, strategic and joint victory.
Implement the military strategic policy of active defense under the new situation and optimize the military strategic layout. According to China’s geo-strategic environment, security threats and military strategic tasks, we should build a strategic deployment and military situation with overall planning, regional responsibility, mutual coordination and integration; Respond to new security threats such as space and cyberspace and safeguard common security; Strengthen international security cooperation in overseas stakeholder areas and safeguard the safety of overseas interests.
Carry out the military strategic policy of active defense under the new situation and adhere to the following principles: obey and serve the national strategic objectives, implement the overall national security concept, strengthen preparations for military struggle, prevent crises, contain wars and win wars; Create a strategic situation conducive to the peaceful development of the country, adhere to a defensive national defense policy, adhere to close cooperation in political, military, economic, diplomatic and other fields, and actively respond to the comprehensive security threats that the country may face; Maintain the balance of safeguarding rights and maintaining stability, coordinate the two overall situations of safeguarding rights and maintaining stability, safeguard the country’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, and safeguard the surrounding security and stability; Strive for the strategic initiative of military struggle, actively plan military struggles in all directions and fields, and seize the opportunity to accelerate the construction, reform and development of the army; Use flexible strategies and tactics, give full play to the overall effectiveness of joint operations, concentrate superior forces, and comprehensively use tactical means; Based on dealing with the most complicated and difficult situations, adhere to the bottom line thinking, do a good job in all preparations, and ensure proper response and handling; Give full play to the unique political advantages of the people’s army, adhere to the party’s absolute leadership over the army, attach importance to the cultivation of fighting spirit, strictly organize and discipline the army, purify and consolidate the army, close the relationship between the military, the government and the people, and boost the morale of the army; Give full play to the overall power of the people’s war, adhere to the people’s war as an important magic weapon to defeat the enemy, expand the content and methods of the people’s war, and promote the transformation of war mobilization from human mobilization to scientific and technological mobilization; Actively expand the space for military security cooperation, deepen military relations with big countries, neighboring countries and developing countries, and promote the establishment of regional security and cooperation frameworks.
Fourth, the construction and development of military forces
To carry out the military strategic policy under the new situation, we must closely focus on realizing the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s goal of strengthening the army under the new situation, take the country’s core security needs as the guide, focus on building an information-based army and winning an information-based war, comprehensively deepen the reform of national defense and the army, strive to build a modern military force system with China characteristics, and constantly improve the army’s ability to respond to various security threats and complete diversified military tasks.
Development of services and armed police forces
In accordance with the strategic requirements of mobile operations and three-dimensional attack and defense, the Army has realized the transformation from regional defense to global mobility, accelerated the development of miniaturization, versatility and modularization, adapted to the needs of different tasks in different regions, organized the construction of combat forces in different categories, built a combat force system that meets the requirements of joint operations, and improved the capabilities of precise operations, three-dimensional operations, global operations, multi-functional operations and sustained operations.
In accordance with the strategic requirements of offshore defense and offshore protection, the navy has gradually changed from offshore defense to offshore defense and offshore protection, built a comprehensive, multi-functional and efficient maritime combat force system, and improved its strategic deterrence and counterattack, maritime mobile operations, maritime joint operations, comprehensive defense operations and comprehensive support capabilities.
According to the strategic requirements of air and space integration and both offensive and defensive, the Air Force has realized the transformation from national air defense to both offensive and defensive, built an air and space defense force system that meets the needs of information operations, and improved its strategic early warning, air strikes, air defense and anti-missile, information confrontation, airborne operations, strategic delivery and comprehensive support capabilities.
The Second Artillery Corps, in accordance with the strategic requirements of being lean and effective, with both nuclear and conventional capabilities, accelerated the information transformation, promoted independent innovation of weapons and equipment by relying on scientific and technological progress, enhanced the safety, reliability and effectiveness of missile weapons, improved the power system with both nuclear and conventional capabilities, and improved the strategic deterrence, nuclear counterattack and medium-and long-range precision strike capability.
According to the strategic requirements of multi-functional integration and effective stability, the Armed Police Force develops the forces of duty security, emergency stability, anti-terrorism assault, emergency rescue, emergency support and air support, improves the power system with duty emergency and anti-terrorism stability as the main body, and improves the ability to complete diversified tasks with the duty emergency capacity as the core under the information conditions. Power development in major security fields.
The ocean is related to the long-term stability and sustainable development of the country. We must break through the traditional thinking of attaching importance to land and neglecting the sea, and attach great importance to managing the sea and safeguarding sea power. We will build a modern maritime military force system that is compatible with national security and development interests, safeguard national sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, safeguard the safety of strategic channels and overseas interests, participate in international cooperation in the ocean, and provide strategic support for building a maritime power.
Space is the commanding height of international strategic competition. The weaponization of space is beginning to show signs about the development of space forces and means by countries concerned. China has always advocated the peaceful use of space, opposed the weaponization and arms race in space, and actively participated in international space cooperation. Closely follow and master the space situation, respond to the threats and challenges of space security, safeguard the safety of space assets, serve the national economic construction and social development, and safeguard space security.
Cyberspace is a new pillar of economic and social development and a new field of national security. The international strategic competition in cyberspace is becoming increasingly fierce, and many countries are developing cyberspace military forces. China is one of the biggest victims of hacker attacks. The security of network infrastructure is facing severe threats, and the influence of cyberspace on military security is gradually rising. Accelerate the construction of cyberspace power, improve the ability of cyberspace situational awareness, cyber defense, support national cyberspace struggles and participate in international cooperation, curb major cyberspace crises, ensure national network and information security, and safeguard national security and social stability.
Nuclear power is the strategic cornerstone for safeguarding national sovereignty and security. China has always pursued the policy of no-first-use of nuclear weapons, adhered to the nuclear strategy of self-defense, unconditionally refrained from using or threatening to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon States and nuclear-weapon-free zones, and never engaged in a nuclear arms race with any country. Its nuclear power has always been maintained at the lowest level required for safeguarding national security. We will improve the nuclear power system, improve the capabilities of strategic early warning, command and control, missile penetration, rapid response and survival protection, and deter other countries from using or threatening to use nuclear weapons against China.
Military strength building measures
Strengthen ideological and political construction. Always give priority to ideological and political construction in all aspects of military construction, strengthen and improve military political work under the new situation, carry forward and practice socialist core values, continuously cultivate contemporary revolutionary soldiers’ core values, carry forward glorious traditions and fine work style, adhere to a series of fundamental principles and systems of the party’s absolute leadership over the military, enhance the creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness of party organizations at all levels, vigorously cultivate a new generation of revolutionary soldiers with soul, ability, blood and morality, and ensure that the troops resolutely obey the Party Central Committee and morality at all times and under all circumstances.
Promote the construction of modern logistics. Deepen the reform of logistics policy system and logistics support force, optimize the strategic logistics layout, innovate the support mode, develop new support means, enrich the reserve of combat readiness materials, integrate the construction of logistics information system, improve the system of laws and regulations, carefully organize supply support, and build logistics to win the modern war, serve the modernization of the army and transform into information.
Develop advanced weapons and equipment. Adhere to information-oriented, system construction, independent innovation and sustainable development, make overall plans and give prominence to key points, speed up the upgrading of weapons and equipment, and build a weapons and equipment system that meets the requirements of information warfare and mission performance.
Do a good job in training new military talents. Vigorously implement the talent strategy project, improve the military human resources system, deepen the reform of military academies, improve the new military talent training system of military academy education, military training practice and military vocational education, attract more outstanding talents, and cultivate and cultivate talent groups that meet the needs of information war.
We will further promote the rule of law and strictly manage the army. Focus on comprehensively strengthening the revolutionization, modernization and regularization of the army, innovate and develop the theory and practice of governing the army according to law, build a perfect military rule of law system with China characteristics, and improve the level of rule of law in national defense and army building.
Promote innovation in military theory. Adhere to the guidance of the Party’s innovative theory, strengthen the research on operational issues, deeply explore the winning mechanism of modern wars, innovate flexible strategies and tactics, develop the theory of army building under the new situation, and form an advanced military theoretical system suitable for winning future wars.
Strengthen strategic management. Optimize the functional allocation and institutional setup of the leading organs at the headquarters of the Military Commission, improve the leadership management system of various services and arms, and adhere to demand-driven planning and planning leading resource allocation. Strengthen the overall planning and coordination, improve the planning system, and build a planning management mechanism. Strengthen the overall supervision of strategic resources and strengthen the process supervision and risk control of major projects. Improve the strategic evaluation mechanism, establish and improve the evaluation system and supporting standards and norms.
Integration of defense and civilian technologies’s deep development.
We will carry out the policy of combining the military with the people, further promote the development of military-civilian integration, constantly improve the integration mechanism, enrich the integration forms, expand the integration scope and upgrade the integration level, and strive to form a comprehensive, multi-field and high-efficiency deep development pattern of integration of defense and civilian technologies.
Accelerate the integration of military and civilian development in key construction areas. We will increase policy support, comprehensively promote the common use of military and civilian standards in basic fields, key technical fields and major industries, and explore ways and means to cultivate military talents by relying on the national education system, develop weapons and equipment by relying on the national defense industry system, and promote socialized logistics support by relying on the social security system. We will extensively carry out joint military-civilian infrastructure construction, promote the rational development and cooperative use of military-civilian marine, space, airspace, surveying and mapping, navigation, meteorology, spectrum and other resources, and promote the mutual complementarity and mutual use of military-civilian resources.
Improve the operation mode of overall military and civilian construction. At the national level, we will establish a unified leadership, military-civilian coordination, demand docking and resource sharing mechanism for integration of defense and civilian technologies’s development, improve the management responsibilities of relevant military-civilian departments, improve the general military-civilian standard system, explore the construction of a policy system of government investment, tax incentives and financial support, accelerate the legislative process of military-civilian coordinated construction, and gradually form an overall pattern of military-civilian coordinated development. We will promote the comprehensive use of military forces and forces in various fields, and establish and improve an operational mechanism for joint military and civilian response to major crises and emergencies.
Improve the system and mechanism of national defense mobilization. Strengthen national defense education and enhance the national defense concept of the whole people. Strengthen the construction of reserve forces, optimize the structure of reserve forces, increase the proportion of reserve forces of arms and services and forces undertaking support and support tasks, and innovate the grouping and application mode of reserve forces. Strengthen the scientific and technological content of national defense mobilization, do a good job in the preparation of information resource requisition support mobilization, strengthen the construction of professional support team, and build a national defense mobilization system that is suitable for winning the information war and integrated with emergency response.
V. Preparation for Military Struggle
Preparation for military struggle is the basic practical activity of the army and an important guarantee for maintaining peace, containing crises and winning wars. To expand and deepen the preparations for military struggle, we must adhere to the requirements of being able to fight and win the battle, adhere to the orientation of solving key and difficult problems, be practical and ready, and comprehensively improve the deterrence and actual combat capability of the army.
Enhance system capabilities based on information system. Accelerate the transformation of combat power generation mode, integrate various combat forces, combat units and combat elements into an overall combat capability by using information systems, and gradually build an integrated joint combat system with seamless links of combat elements and independent cooperation of combat platforms. Efforts will be made to solve the outstanding contradictions and problems that restrict system capabilities, promote the in-depth development and efficient utilization of information resources, strengthen the construction of reconnaissance and early warning systems and command and control systems, develop medium-and long-range precision strike forces, and improve the comprehensive security system. In accordance with the requirements of authority, competence, flexibility and efficiency, establish and improve the joint operational command organization of the military commission and the joint operational command system of the theater.
Make overall plans to advance preparations for military struggle in all directions and fields. China’s geo-strategic environment is complex, and there are different threats and challenges in all strategic directions and security fields. We must make overall plans, highlight key points, promote comprehensive and coordinated development of military struggle preparations, and maintain overall strategic balance and stability. Coordinate preparations for military struggle in the traditional and new security fields, and do a good job in safeguarding national sovereignty and security, safeguarding national maritime rights and interests, and responding to armed conflicts and emergencies. Adapt to the upgrading of weapons and equipment and the development and change of combat style, further optimize the battlefield layout and strengthen strategic preset.
Maintain a constant state of readiness. Improve the daily combat readiness level in an all-round way, maintain a high alert posture, and carefully organize border air defense combat readiness patrols and duties. The army forces have built a system of combat readiness forces that are linked in various strategic directions, combined with multiple arms, and supported by operational support, and maintained a good state of prompt, dynamic and effective response. The naval forces organize and implement normalized combat readiness patrols to maintain a military presence in relevant sea areas. The air force adheres to the principle of integration of peacetime and wartime, global response and arrival in Xinjiang, and maintains a sensitive and efficient combat readiness. The Second Artillery Corps maintains a moderate alert state at ordinary times, and builds an operational duty system with integrated elements, complete functions, sensitivity and high efficiency in accordance with the principles of combining peacetime and wartime, being always ready to fight at any time.
Improve the actual combat level of military training. Adhere to the strategic position of actual combat military training, train troops from difficulties to strictness based on actual combat needs, strictly follow the program, strengthen the innovation of tactics and training methods, improve military training standards and laws and regulations, speed up the construction of large-scale comprehensive training bases, and build an actual combat training environment. We will carry out in-depth simulation training based on actual combat needs, simulation training based on information technology, and actual combat training that meets actual combat standards, strengthen command training of the head office and joint training of various services and arms, and increase training in complex electromagnetic environment, complex unfamiliar areas and complex meteorological conditions. Establish and improve the training supervision and inspection system, and strive to integrate training with actual combat.
Organize preparations for non-war military operations. It is an inevitable requirement for the army to perform its duties and missions in the new period and an important way to enhance its combat capability to carry out non-war military operations such as emergency rescue, anti-terrorism, maintaining stability, safeguarding rights and interests, security alert, international peacekeeping and international rescue. Incorporate the construction of non-war military operational capability into the overall planning and implementation of military modernization and military struggle preparation, and do a good job in emergency command mechanism, emergency force construction, professional personnel training, applicable equipment support, and improve relevant policies and regulations. Promote the coordinated operation of the military emergency command mechanism and the national emergency management mechanism, and adhere to unified organization and command, scientific use of troops, rapid and efficient action and strict adherence to policies and regulations.
VI. Military security cooperation
China’s armed forces adhere to the security concept of common security, comprehensive security, cooperative security and sustainable security, develop military relations that are non-aligned, non-confrontational and not directed against third parties, promote the establishment of a fair and effective collective security mechanism and military mutual trust mechanism, actively expand the space for military security cooperation, and create a security environment conducive to the peaceful development of the country.
Develop all-round foreign military relations. Deepen the exchanges and cooperation between the Chinese and Russian armed forces under the framework of the comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation between the two countries, gradually build a comprehensive, diversified and sustainable mechanism framework, and promote the development of relations between the two armed forces in a wider field and at a deeper level. We will build a new military relationship that is compatible with the relationship between China and the United States, strengthen dialogue, exchanges and cooperation in the field of defense, improve the mechanism of mutual notification of trust measures for major military operations and the code of conduct for the safety of sea and air encounters, and enhance mutual trust, prevent risks and control crises. Consolidate and develop military relations with neighboring countries in accordance with the neighboring diplomatic concept of sincerity and tolerance. Improve the level of military relations with European countries and develop traditional friendly military relations with African, Latin American and South Pacific countries. Deepen the defense and security cooperation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, participate in multilateral dialogue and cooperation mechanisms such as the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Expansion Meeting, the ASEAN Regional Forum, the shangri-la dialogue Conference, the Jakarta International Defense Dialogue, and the Western Pacific Naval Forum, and hold multilateral activities such as the Xiangshan Forum to promote the establishment of a new security and cooperation framework conducive to peace, stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.
Promote pragmatic military cooperation. On the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, and win-win cooperation, we will carry out pragmatic cooperation with the armed forces of all countries in the world. Adapt to changes in the situation, constantly explore new areas, new contents and new modes of cooperation, and jointly respond to various security threats and challenges. Conduct extensive dialogues and exchanges with foreign troops in the fields of defense policy, service and arms construction, college education, logistics construction, etc., enhance mutual understanding and mutual trust, and learn from each other. We will strengthen cooperation with the armed forces of relevant countries in personnel training, military material assistance, equipment technology and other fields, support each other, and improve their respective defense capabilities. We will carry out multi-level, multi-field and multi-service joint training, promote the expansion of training subjects from non-traditional security fields to traditional security fields, and improve the ability of joint action. Actively participate in international maritime security dialogue and cooperation, and persist in cooperation to deal with traditional and non-traditional maritime security threats.
Fulfill international responsibilities and obligations. Participate in UN peacekeeping operations, fulfill the mandate of the Security Council, commit to peaceful settlement of conflicts, promote development and reconstruction, and safeguard regional peace and security. Actively participate in international disaster relief and humanitarian assistance, send professional rescue forces to disaster-stricken countries to rescue and reduce disasters, provide relief materials and medical assistance, strengthen international exchanges in rescue and reduction, and improve the ability and professionalism of carrying out tasks. Faithfully fulfill international obligations, continue to carry out escort operations in the Gulf of Aden and other sea areas as needed, strengthen exchanges and cooperation with multinational escort forces, and jointly safeguard the safety of international sea lanes. Participate extensively in regional and international security affairs, and promote the establishment of mechanisms such as emergency notification, military danger prevention, and crisis conflict control. With the continuous strengthening of national strength, China’s army will increase its participation in international peacekeeping and international humanitarian relief, undertake more international responsibilities and obligations within its capacity, provide more public safety products, and make greater contributions to maintaining world peace and promoting common development.