National defense education institutions at all levels shall organize and coordinate relevant departments to do a good job in the selection, training and management of national defense education teachers.

Rule number one. In order to popularize and strengthen national defense education, carry forward the spirit of patriotism and promote the construction of national defense and socialist spiritual civilization, this Law is formulated in accordance with the National Defense Law and the Education Law.

Second, 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.

Article 3. By carrying out national defense education, the state enables citizens to enhance their national defense concepts, master basic national defense knowledge, learn necessary military skills, stimulate patriotic enthusiasm, and consciously fulfill their national defense obligations.

Article 4. National defense education follows the principles of participation by the whole people, long-term persistence and practical results, and adheres to the principles of combining regular education with centralized education, universal education with key education, and theoretical education with behavioral education, and determines and organizes corresponding educational content for different objects.

Article 5. All citizens in People's Republic of China (PRC) have the right and obligation to receive national defense education. Popularizing and strengthening national defense education is the common responsibility of the whole society. All state organs, armed forces, political parties and social organizations, enterprises and institutions, and grass-roots mass autonomous organizations shall organize and carry out national defense education according to the actual conditions of their respective regions and units.

Article 6. The State Council leads national defense education. The Central Military Commission cooperated with the State Council to carry out national defense education for all. Local people's governments at various levels shall lead the work of national defense education within their respective administrative areas. Resident military organs shall assist and support local people's governments in developing national defense education.

Seventh, national defense education institutions plan, organize, guide and coordinate national defense education. The local institutions responsible for national defense education at or above the county level shall organize, guide, coordinate and inspect the national defense education within their respective administrative areas.