1March, 199714th, deliberated and adopted at the Fifth Session of the Eighth National People's Congress (National Defense Education Law? ), is China's national defense and armed forces;

The national defense education law is the general name of national laws and regulations on popularizing and strengthening citizens' national defense education. Part of the military law. The national defense education law is the basic basis for the country to carry out national defense education and an important means to enhance citizens' national defense concept and build and consolidate national defense.

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In the 8th century BC, the Spartan National Military Education Law formulated by the ancient Greek city-state was the earliest law in the world to regulate citizens' national defense education. The legal norms related to national defense education in ancient China are scattered in other laws. For example, the military service law provides for mobilizing conscripts to participate in the war and educating the people to prepare for the military.

After the Second World War, countries generally attached importance to and strengthened national defense education legislation. For example, in 1958, the United States promulgated the National Defense Education Act 1958 to meet its demand for national defense talents during the Cold War. 1973, Czechoslovakia promulgated the law on national defense education.