The great significance of building a new security pattern
Building a new security pattern is a major strategic deployment made by the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, from the strategic height of adhering to and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and sizing up the situation to answer how the new era and new journey can not only solve the common security problems faced in the development process of great powers, but also deal with the special security problems faced at the critical stage of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, which has great political, theoretical, practical and world significance.
The picture shows the theme poster of the National Security Education Day on April 15th, 2023. Photo courtesy of the Ministry of National Security
Political significance
Building a new security pattern highlights the great political significance of upholding the Party’s absolute leadership over national security work and taking the road of national security with China characteristics.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership is the most essential feature of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, the greatest advantage of the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system, and the root and lifeblood of the party and the country.
In the new era and new journey, to build a new security pattern, we must always uphold the absolute leadership of the Party over national security work, adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee over national security work, give full play to the core role of the Party in taking the overall situation and coordinating all parties in the national security practice with China characteristics, ensure that the Party’s leadership and China’s socialist system remain unshakable, and ensure that the national security road with China characteristics is getting wider and wider.
Theoretical significance
Building a new security pattern highlights the great theoretical significance of implementing the overall national security concept and constantly opening up a new realm of Marxist national security theory.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed that we must unswervingly implement the overall national security concept, improve the national security system, enhance the ability to safeguard national security, improve the level of public security governance, and improve the social governance system. This is the meaning of building a new security pattern, which implies that we should adhere to the principle of people’s security, take political security as the foundation, take economic security as the foundation, take military science, technology, culture and social security as the guarantee, and rely on promoting international security, coordinate external security and internal security, homeland security and national security, traditional security and non-traditional security, self-security and common security, coordinate and shape national security, consolidate the grassroots foundation of national security and social stability, and improve the mechanism of participating in global security governance.
Building a new security pattern has further expanded and sublimated the regular understanding of national security work in the new era and further enriched and developed Marxist national security theory.
Practical significance
Building a new security pattern highlights the great practical significance of promoting Chinese modernization and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China drew a grand blueprint for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in an all-round way with Chinese modernization.
At present, China’s development stands at a new historical starting point, the external environment and security pattern have undergone major changes, and all kinds of predictable and unpredictable risks, challenges, difficulties and even stormy waves have put forward higher requirements for national security work.
Only by accelerating the construction of a new security pattern and firmly holding the bottom line of safe development can we build development on a safer and more reliable basis; Only by ensuring development with safety and promoting safety with development can the new security pattern and the new development pattern be promoted together; Only in this way can we ensure that the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will not be delayed or even interrupted, and that Chinese modernization will be stable and far-reaching.
World significance
Building a new security pattern highlights the great world significance of persisting in promoting international common security and building a community of human destiny.
In today’s world, the linkage, transnationality and diversity of security issues are more prominent. China’s national security is inseparable from the international security situation. We should not only do our own national security work well, but also promote international security.
To build a new security pattern, we should proceed from the basic principles of Marxist national security theory such as "security is indivisible" and security community, abandon the old concepts such as "national power must dominate", zero-sum game, absolute security and alliance confrontation, and promote the construction of a community of human destiny.
Building a new security pattern points out the direction of coping with global challenges and moving towards a brighter future, marks the new progress of human national security governance, and provides important reference for those countries that want to maintain social security and stability as well as their own independence.
For more exciting contents, see: Chen Yixin’s "Deeply Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the 20th Party Congress and Accelerating the Construction of a New Security Pattern"
(Planning: Liu Mingmei Audit: Li Yanling)