On the significance of national defense education in colleges and universities Abstract: National defense education in colleges and universities is an important part of national defense education for all. Strengthening national defense education in colleges and universities is of great significance for strengthening students' national defense concept, cultivating students' national defense spirit, cultivating national defense talents and promoting socialist modernization. & lt With the promulgation and implementation of the National Defense Education Law, the national defense education in many colleges and universities in China has made some progress, but many places still need to be improved. National defense education is a form of education in the field of national defense. It is an organized and planned national defense political thought, morality, military theory, military tactics and national defense strength. National defense education in colleges and universities is an important part of national defense education. Its fundamental purpose is to improve college students' national security awareness and enhance their national defense concept. Colleges and universities are the bases for cultivating socialist builders and successors, improving students' humanistic quality and promoting students' all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics. Their national defense education belongs to the category of basic quality education in the whole national defense education system, and only has the function of strengthening the national defense concept and improving the national defense awareness of the whole people. But also has a strong educational function in promoting the improvement of students' ideological quality. As an important part of China's national education, the fundamental purpose of national defense education in colleges and universities is to continuously enhance college students' ability to defend national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security, resist foreign aggression and subversion, popularize military knowledge and skills, and improve their physical and mental quality. Make full preparations for national defense construction and national defense struggle ideologically and organizationally. The rapid development of science and technology in the world today and its wide application in the military make war put forward higher requirements for people's spirit, knowledge, skills and physique. As a comprehensive education, national defense education in colleges and universities plays an increasingly important role in improving students' national defense quality and ability. In the field of national defense, both spiritual construction and system construction are closely related to national defense education, which is the ideological basis. At the same time, the cultivation of talents, the development of weapons and the scientific combination of man and weapons in the field of national defense also depend on national defense education to inject vitality and vitality into it. It is of long-term strategic significance to carry out national defense education in colleges and universities in depth, extensively and persistently in the historical period.