The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is a people's army founded and led by the **** Proletarian Party and armed with Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought. Since the founding of the army, the "people are the creators of social history" this materialist concept of history as an important part of political and ideological education, and image of civil-military relations compared to fish-water relations to emphasize the importance of good civil-military relations, so that the majority of the combatants from the height of the world view to establish a strong concept of the masses. And with practical action "believe in the masses, rely on the masses, love the masses", for the interests of the people and struggle.
The purpose of the PLA is to serve the people wholeheartedly. Therefore, the PLA is both a "combat team, a work team and a production team". While accomplishing its military tasks, it always tries to support the work of the people's government and help the people to solve their problems.
During the period of the Land Revolutionary War, the Red Army assisted the Soviet government in the fight against the landlords, the division of land, and the implementation of the "land for the cultivator".
During the Anti-Japanese War, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army "propagandized the masses, organized the masses, and armed the masses", and worked with the anti-Japanese government to set up militias and anti-Japanese mass organizations: children's corps, Young Pioneers, Youth Anti-Japanese Vanguard, trade unions, farmers' associations, and women's anti-Japanese rescue associations, and so on.
The Jinchahi border area is a model anti-Japanese base. The people's anti-Japanese sentiment is high, the Eighth Route Army is regarded as the people's sons and daughters, and actively support the Eighth Route Army in the war. Presented a "mother called the child to the battlefield, his wife to send a son to fight in the East China Sea," the warm and moving scenes. For example, Rong Guanxiu, the "Mother of the Sons and Daughters" in the anti-Japanese base area of Jizhong; the "Mother of the New Fourth Army" in the anti-Japanese base area of Jintan County, Jiangsu Province; and the "Sister-in-law of the Red Sisters" in the anti-Japanese base area of Yimeng, Shandong Province, "Six Sisters of the Anti-Japanese Front" and so on. The central task of the anti-Japanese government at all levels is to support the front, carry out support for the military, and support the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in the war.
During the Liberation War, especially during the strategic counter-offensive phase, the PLA sent a large number of excellent commanders and fighters to work with local cadres who went south with the army to take over the pseudo-regime and set up the people's government, as well as to send troops to clean up and exterminate the bandits, and to help the government and the masses to resume and develop production. The people's governments at all levels did everything for the sake of the front line, organizing the masses to supply the troops with ammunition, food, military clothes, military shoes and other supplies by ox carts, donkey carts and horse-drawn carts, and organizing the militia to cooperate with the troops in combat, carry stretchers, save the wounded and take care of the wounded. Wherever the People's Liberation Army fought, the masses supported it, making great contributions to the war of liberation. In support of the Huaihai Campaign alone, a total of 5.43 million people were mobilized, and 7.35 million kilograms of ammunition and 43,000,000 kilograms of grain were transported. Marshal Chen Yi once said fondly, "The Battle of Huaihai was pushed out by the people on carts." Patriotic democrats who came to the liberated areas from Hong Kong also marveled at the sight of the people's courageous support for the front.
The People's Liberation Army is a disciplined and righteous force that does not commit any crimes. The troops of the East China Field Army that took down Shanghai stayed on the streets at night to avoid disturbing the citizens. It aroused a strong reaction and good reflection among the masses. Mr. Rong Yiren, a capitalist at that time, went out in the morning, saw the PLA sleeping on the ground, and was moved to tears, and decided to stay in Shanghai to welcome the PLA of the ****production party and build a new China. Later he also served as vice president of the Chinese People's **** and State.
The war we fought was a just people's war. Under the wise leadership of Chairman Mao of the CPC Central Committee, with the support of the people's government and the people, carrying forward the fine tradition of supporting the government and the people and the army, and utilizing flexible and tactical strategies, the People's Liberation Army grew from a small to a large, weak to a strong army, and went from victory to victory. Expelled the Japanese invaders, defeated the Kuomintang reactionaries, eliminated Chiang's army of eight million, toppled the "three mountains" over the people, and established the Chinese People's **** and the country. The people have become the masters of their own house, and China is now moving towards a new era!
In the new China, the People's Liberation Army, in addition to shoulder the important task of national defense, but also shoulder the support of socialist modernization and disaster prevention and relief and other important tasks, and made a significant contribution to the emergence of a lot of heroic characters. Governments and people at all levels also vigorously support national defense construction and support the military. Every "August 1", "Spring Festival" and other festivals, will carry out visits to active duty, retired, rehabilitated, demobilized soldiers and martyrs, military families.
"Support the government and love the people", "support the military and favor the families", military and political unity, military and civilian unity. The People's Liberation Army will have an endless source of strength, the army will be invincible, the country will have an unbreakable national defense, the people's well-being will have a strong and reliable guarantee. Our country every year in the country to carry out a wide range of "support for the government and the people", "support for the military" activities, and formed a system, so that this glorious tradition to carry forward.
As a retired veteran of the army, I sincerely hope that the good tradition of our party and our army will be passed on from generation to generation and carried forward!