Political Work

A Certain Base Thoroughly Implements Xi Jinping's Thought on Strengthening the Military in Conjunction with Its Mission and Tasks

某基地结合使命任务深入贯彻习近平强军思想

PLA Daily (解放军报) 28 May 2026

Summary

An unnamed PLA base conducting underground national defense construction used a geological setback to run political consolidation training (政治整训) tied to Xi Jinping on Strengthening and Developing the Military (Volume IV), with a Party committee standing committee member personally leading a 'Party member assault team' at the construction face. The article documents how the base has institutionalized a four-mode study mechanism—work-site-linked, mission-integrated, network-synchronized, and video-supplementary—designed to reach dispersed personnel across long, mobile lines of operation. This is standard political work content; its value is as a record of how the PLA frames ideological consolidation as a driver of operational and construction performance, not as evidence of a new policy line or changed posture.

Translation

A Certain Base Thoroughly Implements Xi Jinping's Thought on Strengthening the Military in Conjunction with Its Mission and Tasks—— Integrating Knowledge and Applying Learning

■ PLA Daily Special Correspondents Li Bingfeng and Fang Lei

Deep within rock strata, machinery roared. Some time ago, a national defense construction site under a certain base entered a critical phase, and officers and soldiers encountered adverse geological conditions that brought construction to a standstill.

"Engineer units are also combat units. Building national defense works capable of fighting and winning battles requires firmly establishing a combat mindset and adhering to combat standards." Seeing that the morale of the officers and soldiers had begun to flag, a member of the base's Party committee standing committee who had been stationed there to provide guidance seized a rest interval to organize everyone in studying and discussing important passages from Xi Jinping on Strengthening and Developing the Military (Volume IV), including those on "improving the People's Army's capability to win battles." He guided everyone to actively bring their initiative into play and pool their collective wisdom to overcome the difficulties. In the subsequent tasks, this Party committee standing committee member led a Party member assault team to charge to the front, respond scientifically, and in one sustained effort break through the adverse geological section.

"The harsher the environment and the more arduous the task, the more indispensable is the scientific guidance of the Party's innovative theories." The base's leadership told reporters that they are vigorously carrying forward the fine study style of integrating theory with practice, persisting in using Xi Jinping's Thought on Strengthening the Military as a powerful ideological weapon, drawing wisdom and strength from it, and transforming it into the ideas and measures for solving practical problems and completing national defense construction tasks. Taking the deepening of political consolidation training (政治整训) as the driving force, they persist in using combat effectiveness—the one and only fundamental standard—to test the results of theoretical study, and through using consolidation to promote rectification and using consolidation to promote governance (以整促改、以整促治), they guide Party member cadres to continuously transform the fruits of study into concrete rectification results, driving the overall high-quality development of the force.

Not long ago, the base Party committee's theoretical study central group conducted a concentrated study session. This Party committee standing committee member, who had just returned from a construction site, combined his frontline experience of overcoming difficulties to conduct an in-depth analysis of the contradictions and problems existing in the force's combat effectiveness building, and put forward targeted recommendations for improvement.

"Only by integrating study and application can the power of theory be brought to bear." This Party committee standing committee member introduced to reporters that, in response to the characteristics of the subordinate units—many dispersed sites, long lines of operation, dispersed and mobile disposition, and diverse tasks—the base has explored and developed a mechanism of "work-site-linked concentrated study, mission-integrated permeation study, information network synchronized study, and video course supplementary study," ensuring that study and education covers all personnel without exception. They also focus on guiding officers and soldiers to conduct key studies in conjunction with actual mission requirements and post responsibilities, further achieving integration of knowledge and application of learning (融会贯通、学以致用), so that the Party's innovative theories demonstrate their power at the construction frontline.

Applying learning, pooling strength to resolve difficulties. As theoretical study has continued to deepen, the enthusiasm of the base's officers and soldiers for hard struggle and tackling key problems has continued to surge. Recently, a certain construction site once again encountered a "stumbling block." Officers and soldiers united in cooperation, fought continuously, and boldly applied new construction techniques, successfully resolving the construction difficulties.

Original Chinese

某基地结合使命任务深入贯彻习近平强军思想—— 融会贯通学以致用 ■解放军报特约记者李兵峰方雷岩层深处，机械轰鸣。前段时间，某基地一处国防工区进入攻坚阶段，官兵遭遇不良地质阻碍，施工陷入困境。 “工程部队也是战斗队，建设能打仗、打胜仗的国防工程，必须牢固树立打仗思想、坚持打仗标准。”眼见官兵士气有些低落，在此蹲点帮建的该基地一名党委常委利用休息间隙，组织大家围绕《习近平论强军兴军（四）》中“提高人民军队打赢能力”等重要论述展开学习讨论，引导大家积极发挥主观能动性，集聚智慧攻坚克难。后续任务中，这名党委常委带领党员突击队冲锋在前、科学应对，一鼓作气打通不良地质段。 “环境越艰苦，任务越艰巨，越离不开党的创新理论科学指引。”该基地领导告诉记者，他们大力发扬理论联系实际的优良学风，坚持把习近平强军思想作为强大思想武器，从中汲取智慧力量，并将其转化为解决实际问题、完成国防施工任务的思路举措；以深化政治整训为牵引，坚持用战斗力这个唯一的根本的标准检验理论学习成效，通过以整促改、以整促治，引导党员干部不断将学习成果转化为整改实效，推动部队全面建设高质量发展。前不久，该基地党委理论学习中心组开展集中学习。这名刚从施工点归来的基地党委常委结合一线攻坚经历，深入剖析部队战斗力建设方面存在的矛盾问题，并针对性提出改进建议。 “学用贯通才能发挥理论威力。”这名党委常委向记者介绍，基地针对所属部队点多线长、动散分布、任务多元等特点，探索形成“工区联动集中学、紧贴任务渗透学、信息网络同步学、视频课程补漏学”机制，确保学习教育全员覆盖、不落一人。他们还注重引导官兵结合任务实际、岗位要求等抓好重点学习，进一步做到融会贯通、学以致用，让党的创新理论显威施工一线。学以致用，聚力解难。随着理论学习不断深入，该基地官兵奋斗攻坚的热情持续高涨。日前，某工区再次遭遇“拦路虎”，官兵团结协作、连续鏖战，大胆运用新工艺，成功破解施工难题。