Exercises Modernization Political Work

A Navy General Station Improves Headquarters Work Style to Enhance Support Quality and Effectiveness at the Test-Training Front Line

海军某总站改进机关作风提升试训一线保障质效

PLA Daily (解放军报) 18 May 2026

Summary

A PLA Navy general station on the Bohai Sea coast, identified as supporting missile test-training missions at high-mountain and island sites, has restructured its headquarters work style under political rectification training (政治整训) by requiring Party committee standing members to station forward during major missions and headquarters staff officers to conduct routine embedded visits to squad and platoon-level units, replacing a prior norm of passive, remote command. The article documents a persistent institutional problem in PLA headquarters organs — bureaucratic distance from front-line execution — and records the specific administrative mechanisms this unit has built to address it: a five-step closed-loop problem-tracking system (collection, compilation, responsibility assignment, rectification, feedback) and a cadre evaluation criterion tied to grassroots satisfaction. The live-fire launch mission cited as a success at the end fits the standard pattern of political rectification coverage using operational outcomes to validate work-style campaigns, but the granular procedural detail — the problem ledger, the 'look-back' review cycle, the forward-stationing requirement — provides a useful baseline for how a PLA Navy test-support unit is institutionalizing the campaign's requirements at the unit level.

Translation

A Navy General Station Improves Headquarters Work Style to Enhance Support Quality and Effectiveness at the Test-Training Front Line—— From 'Sitting and Waiting for Reports' to 'Going to the Door to Solve Problems'

■ Lin Kunshan, Huang Xing, Zhang Zheng

On the shores of the Bohai Sea, as night deepened, a certain type of missile launch mission entered a critical preparatory stage.

"Verify the data one more time…" Faced with problems such as poor equipment networking and coordination and deviations in port data interfacing, leaders of a certain Navy general station took the lead in going deep into front-line island station sites, checking operational parameters item by item together with officers and soldiers, analyzing the root causes of problems on the spot, and ensuring the smooth advancement of the launch mission.

"To enhance support quality and effectiveness at the test-training front line, we must improve headquarters work style at the source." The general station's leadership introduced that since the deepening of political rectification training (政治整训), they have guided Party committee organs to abandon ingrained thinking such as 'sitting and waiting for reports' and 'remote command,' and in accordance with the approach of 'moving command forward, tilting support forward' (指挥前移、保障前倾), have put forward rigid requirements: during major missions, standing members of the Party committee are stationed in designated areas and command from the front, embedded throughout the mission chain; headquarters staff officers routinely enter squad and platoon bays and cabins and go deep into front-line combat positions, observing troop conditions and solving problems at the place closest to the officers and soldiers.

During the critical phase of this mission, the general station's leadership dispersed to various high-mountain and island station sites, eating, living, and tackling hard problems together with front-line officers and soldiers: during the day, inspecting equipment performance unit by unit and conducting dragnet-style checks for safety hazards; in the evenings, convening key personnel for exchanges and discussions, reviewing weak links in the mission, and continuously optimizing plans and contingency plans.

On one occasion, a radar measurement equipment unit experienced a sudden anomaly. The general station leadership, stationed forward at the site, took command on the spot and coordinated the deployment of technical forces; headquarters functional staff officers immediately linked up with each station site, simultaneously retrieving operational data from equipment of the same type, and conducting node-by-node troubleshooting and analysis. With top-to-bottom coordination and concentrated effort to tackle the problem, officers and soldiers rapidly identified the cause of the fault and completed emergency repairs, restoring the equipment to optimal condition.

Seeking truth and being pragmatic to change work style, going deep into the front line to solve problems. This reporter observed at a certain equipment staging area that a headquarters staff officer from the general station, conducting a stationed investigation, sat together with company commanders and technical backbone personnel, engaging in in-depth exchanges around difficult problems encountered in daily training, equipment maintenance, and mission support. His pocket notebook was densely filled with the difficulties, problems, opinions, and suggestions reported by officers and soldiers.

Returning to the office, Staff Officer Yu immediately sorted and compiled the contents, registering the collected problems one by one, categorizing and organizing them, and simultaneously updating the problem rectification ledger. Staff Officer Yu told this reporter that the general station has improved and perfected a closed-loop mechanism of 'collection—compilation—division of responsibility—rectification—feedback' (收集—汇总—分工—整改—反馈); every problem reported by officers and soldiers is filed through the appropriate channel and tracked for follow-up, ensuring that every matter receives a response and every issue is resolved.

"Now that the headquarters proactively comes to our door to provide service, many problems can have solutions worked out on the spot. There are fewer procedures, efficiency is higher, and we can better focus our minds and energy on training for combat readiness." Station Commander Ma of a certain station said with feeling when speaking of the changes brought about by the headquarters' improvement of its work style.

To continuously consolidate the results of work-style building, the general station has also explored the establishment of a long-term operating mechanism: institutionalizing the system of standing committee members being stationed at the front line and headquarters organs conducting regular visits; listing grassroots satisfaction and the quality and effectiveness of work implementation as important criteria for cadre evaluation and selection for commendations and awards; and regularly conducting 'look-back' reviews (回头看) of work-style building, checking for gaps and deficiencies against the problem list.

As political rectification training continues to go deeper and be implemented more thoroughly, the trends of Party committee forward command, headquarters organs going down to serve at the grassroots level, and grassroots units working hard and striving to be first have become a prevailing norm (蔚然成风) at the general station, driving a steady improvement in the unit's combat effectiveness. During a live-fire launch mission organized in the recent period, all officers and soldiers thought and worked toward the same goal, efficiently handled various unexpected situations, and effectively captured full-duration mission data.

Original Chinese

海军某总站改进机关作风提升试训一线保障质效—— 从“坐等汇报”到“上门解难” ■林琨山黄兴张铮渤海之滨，夜色渐浓，某型导弹发射任务进入筹备关键阶段。 “把数据再核实一遍……”面对装备组网协同不畅、端口数据对接偏差等问题，海军某总站领导带头深入海岛一线站点，与官兵一起逐项核对运行参数，现场剖析问题症结，确保发射任务顺利推进。 “提升试训一线保障质效，必须从源头上改进机关作风。”该总站领导介绍，深化政治整训以来，他们引导党委机关摒弃“坐等汇报”“远程指挥”等惯性思维，按照“指挥前移、保障前倾”的思路，提出刚性要求：重大任务期间，党委常委分片驻点、靠前指挥，全程嵌入任务链条；机关参谋常态化走进班排舱室、深入一线战位，在离官兵最近的地方察兵情、解难题。此次任务关键阶段，该总站领导分赴各高山海岛站点，与一线官兵同吃同住同攻坚：白天逐台检查装备性能，拉网式排查安全隐患；晚上召集骨干交流研讨，复盘任务薄弱环节，持续优化方案预案。一次，某雷达测量装备突发异常，靠前驻点的总站领导坐镇指挥，现场统筹调配技术力量；机关业务参谋当场联动各站点，同步调取同型装备运行数据，逐节点排查研判。上下联动、聚力攻坚，官兵迅速找准故障原因并完成抢修，使装备恢复最佳状态。求真务实改作风，深入一线解难题。笔者在某装备场坪看到，蹲点调研的总站机关于参谋与连队主官、技术骨干围坐一起，围绕日常训练、装备维护、任务保障中面临的难点问题展开深入交流。他随身携带的小本子上，密密麻麻记录着官兵反映的困难问题和意见建议。回到办公室，于参谋第一时间梳理汇总内容，将收集的问题逐条登记、分类整理，并同步更新问题整改台账。于参谋告诉笔者，总站健全完善“收集—汇总—分工—整改—反馈”闭环机制，官兵反映的每项问题都归口建档、跟踪督办，确保件件有回音、事事有着落。 “如今机关主动上门服务，不少问题现场就能拿出解决方案。流程少了，效率高了，我们能把心思精力更好地聚焦练兵备战。”谈及机关改进作风带来的转变，某站马站长感慨地说。为持续巩固作风建设成效，该总站还探索建立长效运行机制：固化常委一线驻点、机关定期走访制度；把基层满意度、工作落实质效等列为干部考评和评先评优的重要依据；定期开展作风建设“回头看”，对照问题清单查漏补缺。随着政治整训持续走深走实，党委靠前指挥、机关下沉服务、基层实干争先在该总站蔚然成风，助推部队战斗力稳步提升。在近期组织的实弹发射任务中，全体官兵心往一处想、劲往一处使，高效处置各类突发情况，有效捕获全时段任务数据。