Xi Jinping: Speed up the building of the People's Army into a world-class military.

This morning, the grand ceremony celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held at the Great Hall of the People. General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the country, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping awarded the "July 1st Medal" to the awardees and delivered an important speech. Xi Jinping stated that a strong country must have a strong military, and only with a strong military can national security be ensured. In the new journey ahead, it is necessary to comprehensively implement the Party's military thinking in the new era, implement the new era military strategic guidelines, uphold the Party's absolute leadership over the People's Liberation Army, firmly follow the path of building a strong military with Chinese characteristics, comprehensively promote political army building, reform-based strengthening of the military, technology-based strengthening of the military, talent-based strengthening of the military, and law-based governance of the military. Strive towards high-quality national defense and military modernization, achieve the goal of building a strong military in one hundred years as scheduled, accelerate the development of the People's Liberation Army into a world-class military, firmly defend national sovereignty, security, development interests, and make greater contributions to maintaining world peace and development.