Significance of students' military training

(1) Military training for students is the need to cultivate students' all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique.

School education shoulders the important task of imparting scientific and cultural knowledge and cultivating all kinds of specialized talents for socialist modernization. There are many ways to accomplish this task, and military training for students is an important measure to train qualified talents. In military training, students should not only learn the basic knowledge and skills that junior officers and men must master, but also carry out political education, organize them to study the modern history of our country, understand the road and heroic deeds of revolutionary pioneers, learn the party's line, principles and policies, and enhance their consciousness of keeping in line with the CPC Central Committee ideologically and politically; Organize them to engage in social investigation in rural areas, factories and troops, experience life and understand the national conditions and social reality of China. At the same time, because military skill is also a science, it has its own laws and characteristics, and it contains many natural science contents. Studying military can also promote the study of other majors.

(2) Military training for students is the need to speed up the modernization of the People's Liberation Army.

With the continuous development of national economic construction, the pace of modernization of PLA weapons and equipment will be further accelerated. This requires thousands of people with high military quality and scientific and cultural knowledge to master. Students in institutions of higher learning and senior middle schools are highly educated. After a period of military training, selecting some students suitable for active service is conducive to the modernization of the People's Liberation Army. Our army has selected a large number of college graduates from local colleges and universities all over the country to join the army, which has played a very good role in the modernization of the army. In the future, according to the needs of the development of national education and the modernization of the People's Liberation Army, our army will continue to select soldiers and recruit officers from institutions of higher learning and senior high schools. Through such reform, the knowledge structure of PLA officers and men will be better improved, the quality of officers and men will be improved, and the modernization of PLA will be accelerated.

(3) Military training for students is the need to strengthen the construction of national defense reserve forces.

Adhering to the road of combining lean and powerful national defense reserve forces is the only way for China's national defense modernization. Military training for college students and high school students is a strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission from the height of strengthening the construction of national defense reserve forces. We carry out military training for students in institutions of higher learning and senior middle schools, so that they can firmly establish the concept of national defense, master certain military knowledge and skills, and lay a solid foundation for our army to carry out rapid mobilization in wartime and reserve grass-roots commanding officers, technical officers and reserve soldiers. At present, there are more than 1 10,000 institutions of higher learning in China, with more than10.5 million students, and more than 600,000 new students are added every year. There are more than 24,000 senior middle schools (including secondary specialized schools, technical schools and vocational high schools) with more than 7 million students, with more than 4 million new students each year. If they have received certain military training, mastered certain military knowledge and skills, and integrated soldiers into the people and schools, China's national defense reserve force will be stronger. Once the war breaks out, it will constantly meet the needs of mobilizing troops and ensure the victory of the war.

(4) Military training for students is the need to strengthen national defense education for the whole people.

National defense education is an important content of national education and an important part of the whole ideological and political education of contemporary college and middle school students. Historical experience shows that the rise and fall of a country and a nation is closely related to national defense consciousness. College and middle school students have high scientific and cultural knowledge and are young and strong. They are the most promising generation of the country and the main source of national defense talents. To strengthen the national defense education of the whole people, the first choice is to strengthen the national defense education of students, starting with dolls and improving their national defense concept. The most effective way is to give them military training. Through military training, we will educate them in patriotism, revolutionary heroism and the tradition of the people's army, stimulate their patriotic enthusiasm, and enhance their sense of responsibility in building and defending the motherland, thus promoting the development of national defense education for the whole people, carrying forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, and enabling all citizens to establish a national defense concept of being prepared for danger in times of peace, being always ready and being prepared.