I. Significance

1. Enhance national defense concept: National defense education helps citizens to enhance their national defense concept, understand the national security situation and the importance of national defense construction, and thus consciously safeguard national security and interests. Carry forward the spirit of patriotism: through national defense education, stimulate citizens' patriotic enthusiasm, enhance national pride and pride, and consciously fulfill their national defense obligations.

2. Improve military quality: National defense education can popularize military knowledge and skills, and improve citizens' military quality and ability to respond to security threats. Promote all-round development: national defense education not only pays attention to the military, but also pays attention to the all-round development of citizens' ideological and moral character, scientific culture and physical and mental quality.

Second, the role

Cultivating national spirit: National defense education is an important way to cultivate national spirit, which is helpful to inherit the red gene, cultivate the culture of worshipping the army and martial arts, and cultivate the national defense concept of the whole people. Enhance cohesion and centripetal force: through national defense education, social cohesion and centripetal force can be enhanced, so that citizens can unite more closely and jointly contribute to the prosperity and development of the country.

Main contents of national defense education

1, national defense theory. Including the significance of national defense, China's national defense and national defense laws and regulations. National defense history, including China's national defense history and modern national defense history. The national defense spirit includes patriotism and revolutionary heroism. National defense legal system, including national defense law and military service law. Common sense of national defense, including national defense science and technology, national defense sports, etc. National defense economy and national defense technology, including national defense economy and national defense technology.

2. National defense situation. Including the international situation and the domestic situation. Popularize national defense knowledge, train military skills, cultivate national defense reserve talents, stimulate patriotic enthusiasm, enhance national defense concepts, enhance national self-esteem, self-confidence, pride, cohesion and centripetal force, and improve citizens' consciousness of fulfilling national defense obligations.

3. National defense education is of great significance and function. It is an important guarantee to safeguard national security, an important way to cultivate citizens' sense of responsibility and mission, and an important means to promote the all-round development of society. Therefore, we should attach great importance to national defense education, constantly strengthen and improve the national defense education system, and make greater contributions to the prosperity and development of the country.