htmlOn August 29, the State Council Information Office held a press conference. Wang Xiaohui, Executive Vice Minister of the Central Propaganda Department, Li Qun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Lin Keqing, Standing Committee Member of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Executive Vice Mayor, Du Feijin, Standing Committee Member of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Publicity Department, Cong Liang, Secretary-General of the National Development and Reform Commission, and Cai Zhijun, Deputy Director of the Office of the Military Parade Leading Group and Deputy Director of the Operations Bureau of the Joint Staff Department of the Military Commission, introduced the relevant situation of the activities to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and answered questions from reporters. The press conference was chaired by Guo Weimin, deputy director of the State Council Information Office. According to Guoxin.com, Wang Xiaohui introduced that the celebrations mainly include: grand celebration meetings, military parades and mass parades; holding national day party activities in the capital; awarding national medals and national honorary titles; holding flower basket presentation ceremony to the people's heroes; holding a National Day reception; holding a National Day literary and artistic evening; holding a large-scale achievement exhibition to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China; awarding the commemorative medal of "celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China"; producing and broadcasting large-scale documentary special films; issuing commemorative stamps and commemorative coins, etc.
Wang Xiaohui emphasized that the activities to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China should be both solemn and enthusiastic, and pragmatic and frugal, strictly implement the spirit of the Central Eight Regulations, prevent formalism and do not engage in extravagance and waste.
Xinhua News Agency reporter asked: "This National Day military parade has attracted much attention. What is the purpose and significance of this National Day military parade, and what are the innovations and highlights compared with the past? It is now at the end of August. What are the current preparations?"
In response, Cai Zhijun replied that the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission decided to hold a grand military parade in Tiananmen Square on October 1 this year. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, will review the troops being watched. This military parade is an important part of the activity to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The theme is to firmly safeguard the core, reflect the characteristics of the times, demonstrate the prestige of the country and military, and inspire patriotic enthusiasm. The tone is solemn, enthusiastic, pragmatic and frugal. The goal is to highlight the characteristics of the National Day celebration and hold a grand military parade that fully demonstrates the style of a strong military in the new era. Through the military parade, the unchanging military spirit of the People's Army obeys the Party's command, reflects the achievements of reforming and strengthening the army, demonstrates the ability and level of preparation for war, reflects our army's firm confidence in achieving the Party's goal of strengthening the army in the new era and building a world-class army, and mobilizes and inspires the whole Party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to work tirelessly to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The overall design of this military parade grasps that socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, national defense and military construction have also entered the historical position of the new era. It adheres to the general principles of the Military Commission's management of the general, theaters are responsible for combat, and military branches are responsible for construction, focusing on highlighting joint formation, joint action, joint support, and scientific arrangement of military branches to refer to the forces and weapons and equipment of the military branches, carefully marching the echelons of each parade, showing the spirit of the "four-haves" revolutionary soldiers in the new era from a full perspective, and fully demonstrating the good image of the mighty and civilized troops of the People's Army.
The parade unit consists of three parts: hiking team, equipment team and air echelon. The hiking team focuses on reflecting the new leadership and command system, scale structure and force composition of our army after the reconstruction, and demonstrates the composition of our "three-in-one" armed forces. The equipment team focuses on reflecting my country's independent innovation capabilities and weapon equipment research and development level. All weapons and equipment are domestic active main combat equipment, and many of the equipment is debuted. The air echelon focuses on reflecting the systematic level of our army's aviation force development and demonstrating the new qualities of air combat capabilities and strong strength.
At the same time, the military parade has many innovative designs in creating a celebration atmosphere, marshalling reference power, reflecting historical elements, and displaying equipment forms. For example, it is reflected in the glorious history of national defense and military construction and development under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, reflecting the glorious history and outstanding military achievements of our army from victory to victory, expressing the memorial and outstanding troops in various historical periods, inheriting the red gene, and continuing to work hard; demonstrating the construction and development level of our army's new combat capabilities adapted to the development of science and technology and the evolution of war forms. These designs have made many innovative developments than before.
First of all, the characteristics of the times reflected are different.All military parades since the founding of New China have carved the rich connotations of different historical periods. This military parade is the first National Day military parade for socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era. It is the first concentrated appearance of the People's Army after the reform and reshaping. It strives to highlight the characteristics of the times and is refreshing.
Secondly, the theme connotation given is different. The military parade for the 70th anniversary of the National Day is an important part of the celebration, which is different from the special military parades commemorating the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the "battlefield" military parade and the maritime military parade. The design of this military parade focuses on coordinating with the theme atmosphere of the celebration. While fully demonstrating the achievements of reform and strengthening the military, it focuses on reflecting the meaning of "celebration", highlights the celebration characteristics of the National Day military parade, and shows the solemnity of the national ceremony.
Third, the methods of marshalling are different. The hiking teams, equipment teams and air echelons in the parade have made innovative developments based on previous practices, fully demonstrating the system structure of military forces with Chinese characteristics, focusing on demonstrating joint combat, joint training and guarantee capabilities and new quality combat capabilities, and further highlighting information leadership, systematic combat, and joint victory. The specific innovations and highlights of the military parade planning and design will be presented in a concentrated manner on the day of the military parade.
Cai Zhijun mentioned that at present, the military parade is steadily and orderly in accordance with the overall plan approved by the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission. In terms of leadership and command, a three-level military parade leadership and command organization for the military parade, a military parade leadership group, a joint military parade command center, and a three-level military parade leadership and command organization and specific implementation of the military parade are established. In terms of strength coordination, the military parade unit and the military parade joint military band have been drawn and have entered Beijing and surrounding areas. Centralized training and joint military parade rehearsal are underway. In terms of comprehensive guarantee, in accordance with the principles of pragmatic, frugality, intensive and efficient, and based on the current system and joint logistics support system, the relevant work has been strongly supported by relevant departments of the central and state organs and Beijing.
Overall, the preparations for the military parade are progressing smoothly, and the parade troops are investing in parade training with a high spirit and first-class standards. We firmly believe that under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission and President Xi, and with the joint efforts of all the soldiers on the parade, we will be able to accept the review of the Party and the people with a new look and dedicate a military parade that is full of Chinese style, reflects the characteristics of the times, and demonstrates the style of a strong military.
