Combat Oriented Military Training

It refers to the military training guidelines that closely centering on achieving the Party’s goal of building a strong army under the new situation and continuously improving the ability of the army to fight and win wars. Military training is the regular central task of the troops and the most direct preparations for military struggles and previews of future wars. Actual combat military training is training performed strictly that starts from actual combat needs. It is an important guarantee for advancing the integration of training and actual combat. Xi Jinping emphasized: “We must insist on putting military training in a strategic position.” “Starting from actual combat needs, we shall train troops strictly, and strive to improve the actual combat level of military training, so that the troops can master skills to win wars”.

The Central Military Commission issued the “Opinions on Improving the Actual Combat Level of Military Training” in March 2014, and systematically put forward the guiding ideology, overall ideas, main tasks and measures required to improve the actual combat level of military training, providing important basis for strict training of the whole army and armed police forces starting from actual combat needs. In November 2016, in order to further implement actual combat military training, the Central Military Commission issued the “Interim Regulations for Strengthening Actual Combat Military Training”, proposing rigid measures and hard codes, officially implemented from January 2017. The guiding ideology and principles of actual combat military training are: adhere to taking the military strategic guidelines of the new era as the command, and taking military combat preparations as the leader, firmly establishing the combat effectiveness standard, strengthening the actual combat training concept, innovating the actual combat training models, improving the actual combat training mechanism, strengthening actual combat training practices, and comprehensively improving the deterrent and combat capabilities under the conditions of informatization.

Strengthen mission task traction, determine military capabilities based on mission tasks, design training targets based on military capabilities, and plan training development in accordance with training targets. Follow the winning mechanism of modern warfare, and strengthen the perspectiveness, scientificity and effectiveness of training through training design and strict training. Persist in reform and innovation, strengthen the problem forcing awareness, and innovate training content, methods, management, support and institutional mechanisms based on shortcomings in combat capability and weak links in training. Carry out strict training starting from the actual combat needs, and vigorously change the training style to make the training as close as possible to actual combat. Establish a correct concept of safety, unify strict training, improving the actual combat level of training and ensuring the safety of training, resolutely overcome the passive safety protection at the expense of combat effectiveness, and implement strict, scientific and safe training. The main contents of actual combat military training are as follows: focus on correcting the prominent problems in current military training, standardize the organization and implementation of actual combat military training, conduct training based on the enemy's situation, our situation, and the battlefield environment, ensure the implementation of joint training, and continue to promote tactical innovation, standardize battle and tactical training procedures, pay attention to commander training, implement the teaching by chief officers and grades, improve the actual military test exercises, and increase the intensity of training difficulty.

Focus on promoting the further transformation of training, exercise and examination style, solving the problems of cheats in training, pursuit of fame and gain, and soft examination and weak contest, strictly implementing the general examination system for training, and strictly organizing the examination and contest. Focus on scientific deployment of training support resources, further improve the comprehensive support benefits of actual combat military training, strengthen training safety management, and improve training publicity.