Uphold the party's absolute leadership over the army —— A series of talks on implementing the strategy of running the army according to law ③ ■ Fan Jing "Law is the end of governance." In his important speech delivered at the plenary meeting of the PLA and armed police delegation to the fifth session of the 13th National People's Congress, President Xi deeply expounded the political implication, spiritual essence and practical requirements of the strategy of running the army according to law with the "eight insistences". In the "eight insistences", adhering to the party's absolute leadership over the army is the fundamental requirement in the first place and the core issue related to the correct direction and implementation of the strategy of running the army according to law. one A fundamental prerequisite for the success of implementing the strategy of running the army according to law is whether the direction is correct and whether the political guarantee is strong. Only by further improving the understanding of the fundamental principle and system of adhering to the party's absolute leadership over the army can we consciously adhere to the party's absolute leadership in implementing the strategy of running the army according to law and orderly promote the construction of the rule of law in our army. The historical experience of building and running the military is revealed. Our party has always attached great importance to using the system of the party's absolute leadership over the army to promote the management of the army according to law in all historical periods of leading revolution, construction and reform. In October 1932, the instruction on smashing the political work of the enemy's four encirclement and suppression issued by the General Political Department of the Red Army put forward: "strengthen the proletarian vanguard - the absolute leadership of the Communist Party in the Red Army, and lead the Red Army with the unified will of the Communist Party." In the following historical periods, our party has repeatedly emphasized the absolute leadership over the army and determined the principle of the party's absolute leadership over the army in the form of systems and regulations. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, President Xi has guided the people's army to continuously strengthen political military building, comprehensively strengthen the Party leadership and Party building of our army, and promote the self-improvement and development of the socialist military system with Chinese characteristics. The 19th CPC National Congress defined "upholding the party's absolute leadership over the people's army" as a basic strategy for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee clearly proposed to "uphold and improve the system of the party's absolute leadership over the people's army". The historical experience of our army over the past 90 years shows that the fundamental principle and system of the party's absolute leadership over the army is the fundamental guarantee for the people's army to withstand various tests and effectively perform its missions and tasks, and it is the lifeblood that can not be shaken at all. Only under the absolute leadership of the party can we implement the strategy of running the military according to law, so as to ensure the soul and direction of running the military according to law, so as to continuously improve the level of legalization of national defense and military construction, and provide a strong legal guarantee for promoting the cause of building a strong military. Clarify the political direction of running the army according to law. The party's absolute leadership over the army determines the political direction of the army's legal construction. In China, the party and the law, the party's leadership and the rule of law are highly unified. Adhering to the party's absolute leadership over the army and implementing the strategy of running the army according to law are also highly unified. The rule of law is also an important guarantee for realizing the party's absolute leadership over the army. The most fundamental political direction to adhere to in implementing the strategy of running the army according to law is to unswervingly adhere to the party's absolute leadership over the army, keep pace with the times, improve the system and regulations of the party's absolute leadership over the army, and ensure that the fundamental principles and systems of the Party's absolute leadership over the Army take root with the force of the rule of law. Only by implementing the party's absolute leadership over the army to the letter can we ensure the comprehensive management of the army according to law and orderly progress in the correct political direction. The fundamental guarantee for implementing the strategy of running the army according to law. The party's absolute leadership over the army is the essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics, an important political advantage of the party and the country, and the greatest feature, advantage and confidence of the people's army. It has a bearing on the nature and purpose of our army, the future and destiny of socialism, and the long-term stability of the party and the country. Implementing the strategy of running the army according to law is a systematic project with strong political, policy and legal principles. It involves a wide range, heavy tasks and high standards. We must always grasp the party's absolute leadership over the army, the foundation and soul of building the army, and implement the firm belief in the Party's loyalty into the practical action of strengthening the army under the rule of law. two Implementing the strategy of running the army according to law is a systematic project. Adhering to the party's absolute leadership over the army is the core and fundamental requirement of this major strategy. We should adhere to the vivid practice of comprehensively administering the military according to law in the new era, clarify the focus of efforts, identify specific starting points, and promote the in-depth development of the construction of the rule of law in our military as a whole. Adhere to the fundamental principle and system of the party's absolute leadership over the army. After our party came to power, by improving the legal system and bringing the party's absolute leadership over the army into the track of rule of law, the principle of the party commanding the gun has been raised to the national will, with a clear legal status, legal authority and legal effect, which is more fundamental, overall, stable and long-term. We must fully and thoroughly implement the CMC Chairman responsibility system, consciously follow it as the highest political requirement and strictly abide by it as the highest political discipline; Conscientiously implement the Party committee system, the political commissar system and the political organ system to ensure the construction and mastery of the army ideologically, politically and organizationally; Implement the system of division of labor and responsibility of leaders under the unified collective leadership of the Party committee, and give full play to the role of "fixing the sea god needle"; Strictly implement the establishment of branches in companies to ensure that the party's absolute leadership over the army goes directly to the grass-roots level and officers and soldiers. This series of fundamental principles and systems are explored and summarized by our party in the practice of leading the people's army in revolution, construction and reform. They are the specific application of Marxist state theory, determined by the state system of China's people's democratic dictatorship, consistent with the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics, and have indisputable legitimacy. No matter how the form of war evolves, how the internal and external environment of military construction changes, and how the organizational form of the military is adjusted, we must unswervingly adhere to it. Let the party's ideas be incorporated into the law and regulations in time. The party's basic theory, basic line, basic strategy and major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee embody the wisdom of the whole Party and the fundamental interests and common will of the overwhelming majority of the people. Taking the party's banner as the banner, the party's direction as the direction and the party's will as the will, and adhering to the party's absolute leadership over the army in the practice of implementing the strategy of running the army according to law, our army must be good at upgrading the party's proposition into military laws and regulations through legal procedures, and fixing the party's major decisions and arrangements on building and running the army in the form of laws, regulations, rules and regulations, so as to become the basic basis for promoting national defense and army building, Become a code of conduct and code of conduct to be followed by all officers and men of the army. We should fight a tough battle for policy and system reform, improve the quality of legislation, enhance the systematicness, integrity and synergy of legislation, ensure the party's absolute leadership over the army from the perspective of laws and regulations, and ensure the effective implementation of the strategy of running the army according to law. We will unswervingly defend the military soul with the force of the rule of law. At present, the struggle in the ideological field is acute and complex. Western hostile forces have stepped up the implementation of the "Cultural Cold War" and "political transgenic" projects against China. The competition between fixing and destroying roots, casting and decaying souls has not stopped for a moment. We urgently need to make good use of legal weapons, occupy the high point of the legal system, and defend the military soul with the force of the rule of law. We should uphold and publicize the party's theory, line, principles and policies with a strong sense of reason; We should take a clear-cut stand against all kinds of erroneous political views and refute them with reasons and grounds. We should be good at applying Marxist legal theory, clarify the essential characteristics of China's socialist rule of law, clarify the legal basis for adhering to the party's absolute leadership over the army, clarify the hypocrisy and deception of the capitalist rule of law and the reactionary propaganda of Western hostile forces, help the vast number of officers and soldiers distinguish right from wrong and stand firm, and provide solid legal support for adhering to the party's absolute leadership over the army. three Implementing the strategy of running the army according to law under the absolute leadership of the party is not only a serious political task, but also a major practical topic. It needs to do a lot of detailed basic work. We must work for a long time and make unremitting efforts. Internalization is deepened in theoretical arming. The height of ideological understanding determines the strength of implementation; The depth of theoretical arming determines the effect of implementation. To implement the strategy of running the army according to law under the absolute leadership of the party, we must first lay a solid ideological foundation and strengthen the armed forces of theory. We should integrate education in the rule of law into the education system of military colleges and universities, the theoretical study of cadres and the education and training system of the army, guide officers and soldiers to adhere to laws and regulations as a principle, fulfill the maintenance of laws and regulations as a responsibility, cultivate compliance with laws and regulations as a habit, and cultivate the implementation of laws and regulations as a quality, so as to continuously enhance the ideological and action consciousness of officers and soldiers to respect the law, abide by the law and use the law. Cultivate norms in observing discipline and law. The officers and men of the whole army consciously abide by discipline and law, which is the basic guarantee for implementing the strategy of running the army according to law. The key to abiding by discipline and law is to strictly enforce political discipline and political rules, guide officers and men to further deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishment", constantly enhance the "four awareness", strengthen the "four self-confidence", achieve the "two maintenance", implement the chairman responsibility system of the Military Commission, maintain a high degree of consistency with the CPC Central Committee, the Central Military Commission and chairman Xi in thinking, politics and action, and always bear in mind the bounden duty of soldiers, Always tighten the string of law and discipline. We must uphold discipline and strict law enforcement. We must strictly hold accountable and deal with erroneous words and deeds that violate the party's absolute leadership over the army, earnestly maintain the authority and seriousness of laws and disciplines, and ensure the effective implementation of maintaining the core and obeying commands by strengthening the rigid constraints of law and discipline. Sublimation and improvement in practical perception. "Things in the world are not difficult to legislate, but difficult to act by law." Implementing the strategy of running the army according to law under the absolute leadership of the party is not only an ideological understanding, but also a practical requirement. We should consolidate the responsibility of the rule of law, pay attention to refining the list of responsibilities of all departments at all levels to implement the strategy of running the army according to law, further clarify the subject of responsibility and standardize the operation of law enforcement. Adhere to the spirit of rectification, strengthen inner-party supervision, strengthen law enforcement and discipline enforcement, seriously investigate and deal with people and things who step on the "red line", cross the "bottom line" and break into the "minefield", vigorously correct the "micro corruption" and unhealthy tendencies around the officers and soldiers, and create a good political ecology and legal environment to ensure that the party's absolute leadership over the army reaches the foundation and officers and soldiers. The majority of officers and men should learn, use and trust the law from time to time and everywhere, constantly strengthen their consciousness of acting according to the law, finding ways to solve problems, resolving contradictions and relying on the law, and take practical actions to strictly implement the requirements of the rule of law, so as to further build an ideological foundation of listening to the party's command and following. (author unit: Academy of military political work, Academy of Military Sciences) (outlook new era)