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Great Wall Watch | Raising the Level of Full-Cycle, Fine-Grained Training Management

长城瞭望丨提高全周期精细化训练管理水平

PLA Daily (解放军报) 19 May 2026

Summary

A PLA political-work article attributed to Sun Qitao calls on units across the force—citing an unnamed Army unit, an Information Support Force unit, and a Navy base—to adopt data-driven and modeling-based approaches to training management under the framework of 'full-cycle, fine-grained management' (全周期、精细化训练管理) derived from Xi Jinping's guidance. The article documents a persistent institutional problem the PLA has named explicitly: training management that prioritizes form over effect, relies on experience-based rather than systematic methods, and fragments responsibility across echelons rather than integrating it. The specific mention of the Information Support Force—a reorganized command established in 2024—alongside Army and Navy units extends the baseline record of how that new service is being incorporated into force-wide training governance rhetoric, though the article provides no evidence of changed posture or new policy.

Translation

Raising the Level of Full-Cycle, Fine-Grained Training Management

■ Sun Qitao

A certain Army unit has integrated data-driven thinking (数据化思维) into training management, optimized training ledgers, strengthened data analysis, and driven improvements in training quality and efficiency. A certain unit of the Information Support Force has applied military modeling thinking (军事建模思维) to unit training to ensure optimal configuration of all training elements. A certain Navy base's training inspection team tracks the training progress of every subject to ensure training quality remains stable… At present, units across the force are working in day-to-day exercises and training to raise the level of professionalization, fine-grained management (精细化), and scientific rigor in training management, striving to support first-rate training with first-rate management.

Chairman Xi has emphasized: "We must strengthen training management, optimize management models and processes, strengthen the development of relevant regulations, systems, and standard means, and raise the level of full-cycle, fine-grained training management (全周期、精细化训练管理)." Military training is the central work of the force; training management is an important guarantee for improving military training quality. It encompasses activities including the planning, organization, guidance, inspection, and assessment of training, and runs throughout the entire process of military training. A highly efficient training management system is conducive to optimizing resource allocation, reducing construction costs, and achieving twice the result with half the effort. If management methods are improper, it is easy to give rise to problems such as prioritizing rule by man over rule by law, prioritizing planning over process, and prioritizing form over effect, thereby undermining the improvement of the force's combat effectiveness. Establishing a scientific and efficient operational management mechanism is of far-reaching significance for improving training effectiveness and enhancing the combat effectiveness of the force.

"In the method of training soldiers, management is paramount; in the method of managing soldiers, practicing skills is paramount (练兵之法，管之为要；管兵之法，习艺为要)." No matter how good a military's weapons and equipment are, or how many combatants it has, if training management is in disarray and the various elements cannot form "a single game of chess (一盘棋)" and the various forces cannot be "twisted into a single rope (一股绳)," it will not be able to win battles. At present, our military's combat-realistic military training (实战化军事训练) involves large investment, many elements, difficult organization, and high risk. In particular, military training under informatized conditions involves the participation of forces and personnel across multiple regions, multiple systems, and multiple echelons, with highly pronounced characteristics of integrated force, systematic elements, and joint action (力量整体性、要素系统性、行动联合性). Relying solely on simplified, experience-based, and extensive management cannot meet development requirements. There is an urgent need to deepen the reform of training management, optimize management models, improve management processes, strengthen the development of regulations, systems, and standard means, and seek quality and efficiency through improved training management.

"Pull the one key cord and the ten thousand meshes all open (壹引其纲，万目皆张)." The Military Training Outline (军事训练大纲) is the fundamental regulation governing military training and assessment for the force; what to train, how to train, what to assess, and how to assess are all clearly stipulated within it. Raising the level of full-cycle, fine-grained training management requires taking regulations such as the Military Training Outline as the fundamental guide, and—targeting different missions, different equipment, and the technical and tactical levels of different personnel—adhering to precise planning, precise organization, precise assessment and evaluation, and precise support, to ensure that every individual soldier, every type of equipment, and every category of combat element is fully trained. Combat effectiveness of the force must be raised through strict and standardized training. We must persist in using future combat operations as the driver, focus training on potential adversaries, further refine and improve combat-realistic training standards for forces in each direction, each mission, and each type, and drive the expansion of combat-realistic military training (实战化) in both depth and breadth.

Full-process integration, full-element coordination, full-subject linkage, and full-chain closure are the essence of full-cycle management (全周期管理). Today's training involves diverse combat forces, clearly defined professional divisions of labor, and complex weapons operation. Raising the level of full-cycle training management requires us to guard against the problem of "railway police, each managing only their own section (铁路警察，各管一段)," to emphasize the integrity of training, and to ensure unified action across all training links and related domains. We must guard against "each blowing their own horn and each singing their own tune (各吹各的号，各唱各的调)," emphasize the coordination of training, and focus on improving overall training quality. We must guard against "one-size-fits-all" and "marching in lockstep (一刀切、齐步走)," emphasize the differentiation of training, and achieve tiered guidance and categorized training (分级指导、分类施训).

"Tackle the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great while it is still small (图难于其易，为大于其细)." Fine-grained management produces quality and excellence; careless management produces errors and problems. Details determine success or failure; fine-grained management is the essence of management. In training management, without fine-grained management there is no efficient training. Raising the level of fine-grained training management requires that training plans be meticulous and rigorous, down to the finest detail; that training implementation be carefully crafted and precisely fitted; that training support be calculated to every round and every bullet; and that training assessment be carefully cultivated and meticulously organized—ensuring that personnel, content, time, and quality are all implemented, and that every echelon and every category of subject can be trained completely, substantively, and to the required standard.

Governing the military must begin with governing training; governing training must be done strictly. At present, the effort to build a centenary military and advance toward a first-rate strong military has entered a critical stage of breaking through key difficulties and improving quality and efficiency. The requirements for the intensity and difficulty of combat-realistic training are gradually increasing, making it all the more necessary to raise the level of full-cycle, fine-grained training management through strengthened training inspection (训练监察). We must adhere to a problem-oriented approach, measure against the standard of "true, difficult, strict, and real (真难严实)," and adopt methods of discipline inspection and supervision (纪委监察), comprehensive inspection (综合督察), and special investigation (专项考察) to focus inspection on whether the on-site organization of training, the setup of training venues, training standard conditions, as well as the coordination of combat units, the application of tactics and methods, and the conduct of battles and campaigns conform to combat-realistic requirements, driving high-standard implementation across all training links. Problems must be placed in the "exposure column (曝光栏)" and also put "on the operating table (手术台)"; we must persist in combining targeting contradictions for action with targeting problems for correction, strive to form a sound situation in which inspection promotes training, inspection promotes development, and inspection promotes combat readiness (以监促训、以监促建、以监促战), make training discipline strict and training conduct solid, continuously drive the transformation of military training toward a quality- and effectiveness-oriented model (质量效能型), and achieve intensive and efficient development of combat effectiveness building.

Original Chinese

提高全周期精细化训练管理水平 ■孙启涛陆军某部将数据化思维融入训练管理，优化训练台账，加强数据分析，推动部队训练提质增效；信息支援部队某部将军事建模思维应用到部队训练，确保各训练要素配置最优化；海军某基地训练监察小组跟踪每个课目训练进程，确保训练质量保持平稳……当前，各部队在日常演训中着力提高训练管理的专业化、精细化、科学化水平，力求以一流管理支撑一流训练。习主席强调：“要强化训练管理，优化管理模式和流程，加强相关法规制度和标准手段建设，提高全周期、精细化训练管理水平。”军事训练是部队中心工作，训练管理是提升军事训练质量的重要保证，主要包括训练的计划、组织、指导、监察和考核等活动，贯穿于军事训练全过程。训练管理系统高效，有利于优化资源配置、降低建设成本，起到事半功倍的作用。管理若不得法，容易导致重人治轻法治、重筹划轻过程、重形式轻效果等问题，影响部队战斗力提升。建立科学高效的运行管理机制，对于提高训练效益、增强部队战斗力，具有深远意义。 “练兵之法，管之为要；管兵之法，习艺为要。”一支军队，武器装备再好，战斗人员再多，如果训练管理一团糟，各项要素不能形成“一盘棋”，各种力量不能拧成“一股绳”，也是打不了胜仗的。当前，我军实战化军事训练投入大、要素多、组织难、风险高，特别是信息化条件下的军事训练，多区域、多系统、多层次部队和人员参与，力量整体性、要素系统性、行动联合性的特征十分明显，只靠简单化、经验式、粗放型管理难以适应发展要求，迫切需要深化训练管理变革，优化管理模式，完善管理流程，加强法规制度和标准手段建设，向改进训练管理要质量效益。 “壹引其纲，万目皆张。”军事训练大纲是部队军事训练与考核的根本法规，训什么、怎么训，考什么、怎么考，里面规定很清楚。提高全周期精细化训练管理水平，必须以军事训练大纲等法规为基本遵循，针对不同任务、不同装备和不同人员技战术水平，坚持精确计划、精确组织、精确考评、精确保障，确保每一个单兵、每一型装备、每一类作战要素都训到位，在严格正规训练中提高部队战斗力。应坚持以未来作战为牵引，紧盯潜在对手抓训练，进一步完善细化各方向、各任务、各类型部队实战化训练标准，推动军事训练实战化向深度和广度拓展。全过程整合、全要素协同、全主体联动、全链条闭合，是全周期管理的本质。今天的训练，作战力量多元、专业分工明确、武器操作复杂，提高全周期训练管理水平，要求我们必须防止“铁路警察，各管一段”，注重训练的整体性，确保训练各环节和相关领域统一行动；必须防止“各吹各的号，各唱各的调”，注重训练的协调性，以提高训练整体质量为重点；必须防止“一刀切”“齐步走”，注重训练的差异性，做到分级指导、分类施训。 “图难于其易，为大于其细。”精细出质量、出精品，粗疏出纰漏、出问题。细节决定成败，精细是管理的精髓。对训练管理来说，没有精细管理就没有高效训练。提高精细化训练管理水平，要求训练计划必须细密严谨、细致入微，训练实施必须精雕细琢、严丝合缝，训练保障必须一枪一弹、精打细算，训练考核必须精耕细作、精心组织，确保人员、内容、时间、质量落实，确保各个层级、各类对象都能训全、训实、训到位。治军必先治训，治训务必从严。当前，奋斗建军百年、奋进强军一流已进入攻坚突破、提质增效的关键阶段，对实战化训练强度和难度的要求逐步加大，更加需要通过加强训练监察提高全周期精细化训练管理水平。应坚持问题导向，对照“真难严实”，采取纪委监察、综合督察、专项考察的方式，重点监察训练现场组织、训练场地设置、训练标准条件，以及作战单元配合、战术战法运用、战斗战役实施等是否符合实战化要求，推动训练各环节高标准落实。应让问题进“曝光栏”，又让问题上“手术台”，坚持瞄着矛盾抓与盯着问题改相结合，努力形成以监促训、以监促建、以监促战的良好局面，让训练纪律严起来、训练作风实起来，不断推动军事训练向质量效能型转变，实现战斗力建设集约高效发展。