At present, China is vigorously developing the socialist commodity economy, vigorously developing the productive forces and building socialism with China characteristics, which particularly needs a long-term and stable peaceful environment. Creating and maintaining a long-term and stable peaceful environment requires not only a strong material foundation, a strong national defense force and strong national defense measures, but also an urgent requirement for the people of the whole country to be prepared in times of peace and to build the Great Wall of Wan Li in the spirit of national defense.

Carrying out national defense education can not only lay a good ideological foundation for safeguarding the security of the motherland and promoting the cause of world peace, but also inspire the national spirit, arouse people's enthusiasm for loving, defending and building the motherland, and enhance the centripetal force and cohesion of the Chinese nation. This centripetal force and cohesion can be transformed into combat effectiveness in the military and productivity in the economy, which greatly promotes the cause of socialist modernization.

The long-term peaceful environment has made some people, especially some young people, grow up with the idea of peace paralysis and indifferent to national defense. This shows that the education and cultivation of national defense consciousness and spirit is still a weak link at present and should be paid attention to. Therefore, the Thirteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Seventh National People's Congress emphasized that it is not only of great practical significance, but also of far-reaching strategic significance to extensively strengthen national defense education and improve people's national defense concept.

The education and cultivation of national defense consciousness and national defense spirit is a long-term and gradual process, which not only needs to create a certain social environment and form a certain system, but also needs to instill systematic knowledge, concepts and ideas. Several young officers in the Guizhou Military Region system took the initiative to undertake the task and compiled a book "Calling the Soul of the Nation-An Introduction to National Defense Education", which made a very meaningful thing in this respect. ..... I hope that national defense education will be popularized in a large area of the province quickly, improve the national defense concept of the whole people, further invigorate the spirit, develop the economy, make Guizhou prosperous and Qiang Bing rich, build Guizhou into a strong national defense rear base, and make more contributions to China's four modernizations.