A Focus on Primary-Level Units

Primary-level units are the military's bedrock. While inspecting troops stationed in Kunming of Yunnan Province in January 2015, Xi Jinping reaffirmed the need to strengthen primary-level units with focus on their Party organizations, combat readiness, military training, personnel development, and implementation of rules and regulations. Addressing a CMC meeting in November 2019, Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of improving the quality of the primary-level units in areas including political awareness and loyalty to the Party, combat skills and abilities, legal compliance, and moral integrity, so as to provide a solid basis for building a strong military.

The Outlines on Strengthening Primary-level Military Units call for:

strengthening Party organizations at the primary level, by addressing issues faced by these organizations, especially strengthening their effectiveness and ability to generate innovative ideas and mobilize efforts around the Party's objectives;

stepping up military training, including function-specific training and organization of combat skills contests, cultivating a strong fighting spirit, and developing an inspiring military culture;

building a sense of ownership among all service members and promoting democratic practices in all aspects of military life to encourage the rank and file to realize their full potential; and

strengthening compliance with rules and regulations and political ethics education at the primary level to create an environment that rewards integrity, and implementing law-based governance measures to build well-disciplined and stable troops.

全面推進基層建設

基層是部隊全部工作和戰斗力的基礎。2015年1月，習近平視察駐昆明部隊時指出，要堅持扭住黨的組織抓基層，扭住戰備訓練抓基層，扭住官兵主體抓基層，扭住厲行法治抓基層。2019年11月，習近平在中央軍委基層建設會議上強調，全面鍛造聽黨話、跟黨走的過硬基層，能打仗、打勝仗的過硬基層，法紀嚴、風氣正的過硬基層，為推進強軍事業提供堅實基礎和支撐。

按照《軍隊基層建設綱要》全面推進基層建設，主要包括：在基層黨組織建設上用勁，提高解決自身問題、領導部隊全面建設和帶領官兵遂行任務的能力，增強黨組織創造力、凝聚力、戰斗力；圍繞戰備訓練開展基層工作，深入開展崗位練兵、比武競賽等活動，加強戰斗精神培育，營造練兵打仗的濃厚氛圍；尊重官兵主體地位和首創精神，加強部隊政治民主、經濟民主、軍事民主"三大民主"建設，增強基層內生動力和工作主動性，緊緊依靠官兵把基層建設好；按照條令條例規范基層建設，狠抓經常性思想工作和經常性管理工作落實，營造風清氣正的良好環境，把依法治軍作為基層建設的基本方式確立起來，保持部隊正規秩序和安全穩定。