Many countries in the world attach great importance to the popularization of national defense education. The United States, Britain, France, Italy, Hungary and other countries have "National Defense Day" similar in nature and function to National Defense Education Day. On August 36, the 23rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth NPC in China decided that the third Saturday of September should be the National Defense Education Day. The National Defense Education Day was jointly organized by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council, local government departments at all levels and military organs, with unified arrangements and wide participation from all walks of life.