National Defense Education Day: Don't let national defense education be just a tour

Today, our country's 14th National defense Education Day.

August 31, 2001, the ninth National People's Congress Standing Committee 23rd meeting in accordance with the "National Defense Education Law" related content, will be the third Saturday every year September as the National Defense Education Day. It is the first theme festival in China to provide national defense education to citizens in a legal form.

The significance of national defense education is self-evident. The fundamental essence of national defense is the defense of the people, only every citizen can consciously defend the country and defend the sovereignty, the State can establish a strong national defense. The establishment of national Defense Education Day will help to carry forward the spirit of patriotism, improve the concept of national defense, make it master the necessary national defense knowledge and military skills, consciously fulfill the national defense obligations, care, support and participate in national defense construction.

In order to better carry out education, the annual National Defense Education Day has set the theme. For example, the theme of 2001 is "concerned about national defense, is concerned about their own home", 2006 coincides with the 70 anniversary of the Long March, the theme is "to promote the spirit of the Long March, build Steel", this year's National Defense Education Day theme is "Concerned about national security, safeguarding the interests of the

In addition to the National Defense Education Act, the state has also issued the "National Defense Education Program", "National defense education Base naming management measures" and other specific legal documents, in order to ensure the implementation of national defense education, the provinces generally promulgated the National Defense Education regulations or National Defense Education Law Implementation rules, Basically formed the upper and lower cohesion of the national Defense education laws and regulations system.

Countries and provinces and cities have set up a national defense education base, it is understood that the national level of provincial government-named national defense Education Base has thousands of. More than 350 cities nationwide have built up a street of national defense education, some cities have set up national defense Education Theme park, Square, many communities also set up national defense education Room and Publicity window to publicize the universal defense knowledge.

Even so, defense education still faces many challenges and problems in the present. There are reporters in the National Museum, National Defense education Base-The Chinese People's War Memorial Hall interview, interviewed 20 of visitors, there are half before the memorial, only a tourist know the specific date of national defense Education Day.

National defense education should not only be mentioned in the third Saturday of every year in September, it should not be "day-trips", it should permeate silently into every 365 days of the year. This requires the national defense education activities must be low in close proximity to the people. For example, in the National Defense Education Day open warships, warplanes or military barracks for ordinary people to visit voluntarily, in the mass holding a national defense-style military sports competitions, these ways are conducive to the people in the enjoyment of physical and mental activities to receive national defense education.

The youth is the main body of national defense construction, is also the country's future, the universal National defense education may be more lively, in the theater release military subject movie blockbuster, launches the patriotic theme net swims and the hand swims, uses the new media to release the eye-catching fresh defense topic, these are the important way which attracts the young people

In addition, how to integrate national defense education "tall" propaganda theme more "grounding gas" into the life of ordinary people, but also worthy of our serious thinking.

Britain does not set up a national defense education day, but every year on November 11, the British people will spontaneously wear red flowers in the way to commemorate the "Memorial days." Safflower become nostalgic for the soldiers of the sustenance, nurturing the public's national defense consciousness.

The United States has designated Memorial Day as a federal holiday, but many Americans spontaneously go to a cemetery or memorial to commemorate the event, and the President of the United States will also lay a wreath at the National Cemetery.

In Ukraine, when young men and women are married to a national hero monument to the flowers, when the new people to their wedding flowers to sacrifice for the country Martyrs, national defense education in the way of folklore into the ordinary people's life without gap.

It is the highest state of education to inspire the educated to accept the knowledge and ideas voluntarily, and the national defense education should follow this rule. National defense education needs the participation of all the people, with the seemingly simple form of the state and citizens as a whole, with the popular way to carry out national defense education, the National defense awareness into the life of the general public, to stimulate the public's patriotic behavior, so as to achieve the goal of national defense education. (Fang Yongzhi of the Academy of Engineers)