National defense education is the foundation of building and consolidating national defense and an important way to enhance national cohesion and improve the quality of the whole people. Popularizing and strengthening national defense education is of great and far-reaching significance for rallying the will and strength of the whole nation, strengthening the modernization of national defense and the army, advancing the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
National defense education is a social activity to defend national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security, resist the construction and struggle of foreign aggression and subversive threats, and impart ideas, knowledge and skills related to national defense to the whole people.
The important content of national defense construction includes all kinds of social activities to enhance the national defense thought, knowledge, skills and physical quality of the whole people and help form and improve the national defense concept and ability.