National defense education is the foundation of building and consolidating national defense. On the one hand, the national defense force with patriotism as its spiritual pillar is invincible, and the main function of national defense education is to stimulate citizens' patriotic enthusiasm and lay a solid foundation for national defense construction. National defense education is an important part of socialist spiritual civilization construction. Fundamentally speaking, national defense education and socialist spiritual civilization construction are aimed at improving the quality of citizens, cultivating qualified talents and inspiring the people of the whole country to build China into a prosperous, strong, democratic and civilized socialist modern country. It is precisely because of the consistency in purpose, content and means between national defense education and socialist spiritual civilization construction that the former becomes an indispensable part of the latter.
The position and function of students' military training
1. Military training is a compulsory military service for students. According to the Military Service Law, college students must receive basic military training during their school days. Senior middle schools and schools equivalent to senior middle schools are equipped with military teachers to conduct military training for students. Cultivating college students' military training skills is one of the main ways to carry out national defense education in most colleges and universities at present. Carrying out military training can improve college students' physical fitness, strengthen their physique, cultivate excellent team spirit and collectivism consciousness, cultivate their fearless, tenacious and hard-working style and fighting spirit, and make their physical and mental quality develop and improve in an all-round way.
2. Military training for students is a strategic measure to strengthen the construction of national defense reserve forces. Through military training, students can enhance their awareness of national defense, master certain military theories and skills, and improve their consciousness of performing military service obligations according to law, which is conducive to the rapid mobilization of troops. Through military training for students, we can reserve a large number of military reserve talents for the country and lay the foundation for building a strong national defense reserve force.
3. Military training for students is an important means of all-round development. Through military training, students can not only enrich their knowledge and strengthen their physique, but also cultivate a sense of responsibility for selfless dedication, a discipline concept of forbidding, and a fighting spirit of solid struggle, which is conducive to promoting students' all-round moral, intellectual and physical development and cultivating outstanding talents for national economic construction and national defense construction.
The purpose of national defense education
1. Enhance the concept of national defense. The concept of national defense is the ideological basis of citizens' national defense activities. Only when citizens have a certain concept of national defense can they actively learn national defense knowledge and military skills and actively fulfill their national defense obligations. Correctly realize that a country must have sufficient comprehensive national strength to stand on its own feet among the nations of the world, which has actual political, economic, diplomatic, scientific and technological, national defense strength and war potential. "National wealth" cannot be regarded as "national strength", and "father of the country" and "national strength" must be promoted simultaneously. Vigorously carry out various national defense education publicity activities, so that college students can fully understand China's national defense policy, the status quo of national defense education and the importance of national defense education, enhance their sense of urgency, responsibility and hardship, and make them consciously participate in national defense education.