National defense education day is a theme activity day designated by the state to carry out large-scale national defense education for all, and it is one of the forms of mass national defense education activities. Article 12 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on National Defense Education stipulates that the state establishes a national defense education day.
2001August 3 1 day, the 23rd meeting of the 9th the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) decided to establish a national defense education day, and the third Saturday of September every year was designated as the national defense education day. This is the first theme festival in China that clearly stipulates national defense education in legal form. According to this decision, September 2006 1 day was the first national defense education day. September 17 this year is the 22nd National Defense Education Day.
The purpose of National Defense Education Day:
(1) Enriching the national defense knowledge of the whole people. Through national defense education, citizens can master national defense knowledge and help people to improve their understanding of national defense modernization and know what to do and how to do it in national defense construction.
(2) enhance the national defense awareness of the whole people. A strong sense of national defense is not innate. Therefore, the party and the state should carry out extensive and long-term national defense education, and enhance the national defense awareness of the whole people and the basic concepts of undefended, unguarded, prepared for danger in times of peace, prepared for danger in times of peace, enriching Qiang Bing and inviolability of state sovereignty.
(3) Improve citizens' national defense quality. Only by cultivating good political, military and national defense psychological qualities can a citizen love his job and care about national defense construction.
(4) Cultivate citizens' national defense ability. National defense capability refers to people's ability to engage in or participate in national defense practice. Only when citizens have the corresponding national defense capabilities can they make a difference in the practice of defending and building national defense.