National defense education is a construction and struggle to defend national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security and resist foreign aggression and subversion threats. National defense education is an important part of national defense construction, and it is a social activity to impart ideas, knowledge and skills related to national defense to the whole people, including various social activities to promote national defense ideas, knowledge, skills and physical quality, and to help form and enhance national defense concepts and capabilities.

National defense education National defense education is a basic education for all citizens, involving all aspects, rich in content and wide in scope. The integrity of national defense construction determines the content of national defense education. Modern national defense not only refers to the construction of troops, weapons and equipment, battlefields and strategic locations, but also is closely related to the country's economic strength, political situation, national psychology, education level and population quality.

National defense education is a universal education activity with specific purposes and contents for all citizens in order to guard against and resist aggression, stop armed subversion and defend national sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity. National defense education is an important part of national defense construction. Carry out national defense education in primary schools, middle schools and universities.

Throughout the ages, all sovereign countries in the world have attached great importance to national defense education and constantly enhanced their national defense awareness. In today's peaceful times, national defense education is still a major strategic issue in the world. With the strengthening of the concept of sovereign state and the establishment of modern national consciousness, national defense education has been paid more and more attention by all countries. A country that does not attach importance to national defense education has no future, and a nation without national defense consciousness has no hope. Therefore, we must strengthen national defense education and enhance the national defense concept of the whole nation.

Looking back at history, the Chinese nation suffered from wars of aggression and bullying by foreign powers. The Chinese nation is indomitable. After a long and heroic struggle, China now faces both rare opportunities for development and severe challenges. When we seize the historical opportunity and concentrate on modernization, we must clearly see that the world is still not peaceful, the national defense forces are seriously unbalanced, and hegemonism and power politics still exist and have new developments in the fields of national defense politics, economy and security. We must never let our guard down. The formulation and implementation of the national defense education law provides a reliable legal guarantee for thoroughly implementing the party's national defense education principles and policies and promoting the in-depth and lasting development of national defense education. The promulgation of the National Defense Education Law is also of great significance for improving the quality of the whole people and promoting the coordinated development of national defense construction and economic construction. At the same time, the formulation of national defense education law is also the need to implement the national defense law and education law. The general provisions of the Education Law clearly require that "the state shall educate the educated in patriotism, collectivism and socialism, and educate them in ideals, morality, discipline, legal system, national defense and national unity". Through the publicity and implementation of the national defense education law, the principle requirements of the national defense law and the education law for national defense education are embodied and implemented.