BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping has underscored the importance of enhancing political loyalty in the military in the new era and providing a firm political guarantee for building a strong military.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), made the statement at a military political work conference held in Yan’an City, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province from Monday to Wednesday.
The Yan’an conference, which Xi personally decided to convene, took place 10 years after a similar meeting was held in Gutian County in east China’s Fujian Province. The participants discussed and made arrangements to promote political work in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Xi emphasized the need to uphold the Party’s absolute leadership over the military and to build a high-quality cadre team that is loyal, clean, responsible and capable of fulfilling the mission of strengthening the military.
On Monday afternoon, Xi led CMC members and heads of various departments and units to visit the revolutionary relics at Wangjiaping, where the CMC’s headquarters were stationed from August 1937 to March 1947.
Xi visited the former residences of late revolutionary leaders, including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De, in Yan’an to honor the memory of their revolutionary struggle.
The Yan’an conference marks a return to the roots of the military, Xi said.
He called on senior military officials to shoulder the responsibility entrusted to them by the Party and the people to keep strengthening the armed forces. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
