Promote the modernization of the national security system and capabilities.
Wang Xiaohong
Promoting the modernization of the national security system and capabilities is a major strategic deployment made by the twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Decision on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese Modernization (hereinafter referred to as the Decision) adopted by the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee lists the modernization of the national security system and capabilities as a separate part, further clarifies the objectives, tasks and key measures of promoting the modernization of the national security system and capabilities in the new era and new journey from the perspective of the overall development of the cause of the party and the state, and further points out the direction for us to do a good job and provides fundamental follow. Promoting the modernization of the national security system and capabilities is an inherent requirement for actively responding to all kinds of risk challenges, serving to ensure the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation, an inevitable measure for continuing to write a new chapter of the two miracles, effectively meeting the people’s growing needs for a better life, and an objective need for actively adapting to changes in the world, times and history and improving global security governance. We should adhere to the guidance of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era, thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, profoundly understand the decisive significance of "two establishment", strengthen "four consciousnesses", strengthen "four self-confidences" and achieve "two maintenance", unswervingly implement the overall national security concept, solidly promote the modernization of the national security system and capabilities, and effectively prevent and resolve various risks affecting China’s modernization process.Strive to build a higher level of peaceful China, and provide a strong security guarantee for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese modernization.
First, unswervingly implement the overall concept of national security
The overall concept of national security is the national security chapter of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era. It systematically answers a series of important theoretical and practical questions such as why to safeguard national security, what kind of national security to safeguard and how to safeguard national security in the new era, and forms a scientific theoretical system with comprehensive system, strict logic, rich connotation and internal unity. It is a powerful ideological weapon and action guide to promote the modernization of national security system and capabilities, and it must be thoroughly studied, understood and resolutely implemented.
(1) Accurately grasp the core essence. The core essence of the overall national security concept is embodied in the "Ten Persistences" put forward by the Supreme Leader General Secretary, namely, upholding the Party’s absolute leadership over national security work, adhering to the national security road with China characteristics, persisting in taking people’s security as the purpose, persisting in overall planning development and security, persisting in putting political security at the top of the list, persisting in promoting security in all fields as a whole, persisting in giving prominence to preventing and resolving national security risks, persisting in promoting international common security, persisting in modernizing the national security system and capabilities, and persisting in strengthening national security cadres. These "Ten Persistences" are the deepening, expansion and sublimation of our party’s understanding of the regularity of national security work, and profoundly answer the important issue of how to solve the common security problems faced by great powers in the development process and the special security problems faced by the Chinese nation at the critical stage of great rejuvenation in the new era, which is both political, theoretical, historical and practical. Among them, upholding the party’s absolute leadership over national security work is the "root" and "soul". We must always adhere to the party’s centralized and unified leadership over national security work, unswervingly implement the responsibility system of the chairman of the Central National Security Committee, improve the efficient and authoritative national security leadership system, and faithfully implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee on national security work.
(2) Accurately grasp the concept of big security. At present, the connotation and extension of China’s national security are richer than at any time in history, the space-time domain is broader than at any time in history, and the internal and external factors are more complicated than at any time in history. In this context, the overall national security concept emphasizes the concept of great security, and advocates that national security is comprehensive and systematic, and it is common and overall security, covering politics, military, land, economy, finance, culture, society, science and technology, network, food, ecology, resources, nuclear, overseas interests, space, deep sea, polar regions, biology, artificial intelligence, data and so on. We must always adhere to the overall importance, pay attention to understanding the diversity, relevance and dynamics of national security issues from a holistic perspective, build a national security system that integrates security in all fields, and build a safe bottom line in all fields.
(3) Accurately grasp the principles and methods. In view of the internal and external linkage, cross-domain conductivity and sudden amplification of security issues under the background of globalization and networking, the overall national security concept regards scientific overall planning as an important principle and basic method of national security work. At the level of the cause of the party and the state, we emphasize the overall planning of high-quality development and high-level security, pay attention to the synergy between national security work and economic and social development, and plan and deploy together to make national security run through all aspects of the overall work of the party and the state. At the level of national security itself, it emphasizes the overall planning of external security and internal security, homeland security and national security, traditional security and non-traditional security, self-security and common security, and overall planning to safeguard and shape national security. It is necessary to coordinate development and security, promote the coordinated development and synchronization of all aspects of national security, and effectively prevent the transmission and superposition of various risks.
Second, focus on key measures to promote the modernization of the national security system and capabilities.
The "Decision" clearly requires that we focus on building a higher level of peaceful China, improve the national security system, strengthen the integrated national strategic system, enhance the ability to safeguard national security, innovate social governance systems and means, and effectively build a new security pattern. We should study and refine the key tasks deployed in the Decision one by one, and do a good job in promoting implementation.
(1) Improve the national security system. The national security system is a concentrated expression of the national security system and its implementation ability. It is necessary to strengthen the coordination mechanism of national security work, improve the security guarantee system in key areas and the coordination and command system for important special projects according to the new characteristics and changes of the national security situation, improve the inter-departmental real-time monitoring, grading early warning, rapid verification, prompt notification and other mechanisms for major risks, and improve the national security review and supervision system, crisis management and control mechanism, supervision and inspection and accountability mechanism, so as to form a systematic synergy and combat effectiveness. It is necessary to improve the national security rule of law system, strategic system, policy system and risk monitoring and early warning system, actively promote national security legislation in important areas such as space security, deep-sea security and data security, strengthen inspection and supervision of the implementation of relevant national security laws and regulations, and enhance the level of legalization of national security work; Strengthen national security strategic planning and top-level design, optimize national security strategic guidelines, objectives, medium and long-term planning, and make overall use of various strategic resources and means; Insist on changing with the times and the situation, and improve the national security policy system and policy measures in key areas. It is necessary to improve the layout of national security forces and build a coordinated and efficient national security protection system. It is necessary to promote the empowerment of national security science and technology, focus on major needs, strengthen key core technology research, comprehensively enhance the ability of science and technology to maintain and shape national security, and give full play to the supporting role of scientific and technological innovation in national security.
(2) Improve the governance mechanism of public safety. Public safety is connected with thousands of households at one end and economic and social development at the other, which is the vane of social stability and order. It is necessary to adhere to safety first and prevention first, constantly improve the public safety governance mechanism, promote the transformation of public safety governance model to prevention beforehand, and improve the level of public safety governance. It is necessary to improve the security system for handling major public emergencies, improve the emergency command mechanism under the framework of big security emergency, enhance the support and guarantee of human, financial and material resources to deal with public emergencies, strengthen the foundation and strength of grassroots emergency, improve the ability of disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, and effectively prevent, mitigate and eliminate hazards. It is necessary to improve the mechanism of investigation and rectification of safety production risks and responsibility investigation, strengthen institutionalized and normalized safety supervision, strictly implement the responsibility system for safety production, prevent and resolve major safety risks from the source, and resolutely curb the occurrence of serious accidents. It is necessary to improve the food and drug safety responsibility system, fully implement the main responsibility of enterprise safety, compact the local government’s territorial management responsibility and the supervision responsibility of relevant departments, strengthen the whole process and life cycle safety supervision, crack down on crimes endangering food and drug safety according to law, and protect the people’s "safety on the tip of the tongue". It is necessary to improve the biosafety supervision, early warning and prevention system, comprehensively improve the national biosafety governance capacity, and weave a national biosafety protection network. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of the network security system, improve the laws and regulations on cyberspace governance, and improve the systems of network security level protection, key information infrastructure security protection, and data security protection to prevent and resist cyber attacks.Build a "firewall" for network security. It is necessary to establish an artificial intelligence safety supervision system, speed up the legislative process of artificial intelligence, improve the rules of scientific and technological ethics supervision, strengthen hierarchical and classified supervision, strengthen the dynamic analysis, evaluation and early warning of relevant risks, and tackle key technical problems to ensure that artificial intelligence always develops in the direction of continuously improving people’s well-being.
(3) Improve the social governance system. Only when the social governance system is scientific and reasonable can national security work get twice the result with half the effort. We must adhere to and develop the "Maple Bridge Experience" in the new era, improve the urban and rural grassroots governance system that combines autonomy, rule of law and rule of virtue under the leadership of party organizations, improve the social governance system of co-construction, co-governance and sharing, form a situation of joint governance of problems, joint control of risks and joint creation of peace, and improve the ability and level of grassroots governance. It is necessary to explore the establishment of a unified national population management system. It is necessary to adhere to the combination of specialized groups, prevention and treatment by groups, improve the system and mechanism of social work, strengthen party building to lead grassroots governance, strengthen the construction of social workers, promote the construction of volunteer service system, better organize and mobilize the masses, and win the most reliable and solid mass base and source of strength for national security work. It is necessary to promote the legalization of letters and visits, focus on the goal of "clear rights and responsibilities, clear basic figures, good order and satisfaction of the masses", give full play to the normative, protective and leading role of the Regulations on Letters and Visits, and promote the legalization of prevention, acceptance, supervision and accountability, and maintenance of order, so as to ensure that every appeal of the masses is handled and every appeal of the masses is promoted according to law. It is necessary to accurately grasp the requirements of preventing and controlling major risks in the city, fully integrate resources, improve the organizational structure and mode of social governance in the city, and improve the ability of social governance in the city. It is necessary to strengthen the functions of public service platforms such as citizen hotlines and promote "12345", "110" and other platforms are docked; Improve the list management mechanism and normalization promotion mechanism of "efficiently doing one thing" to realize diversification of work methods, optimization of work processes, simplification of work materials and minimization of work costs. It is necessary to improve the social psychological service system and crisis intervention mechanism, and shape the social mentality of self-esteem, self-confidence, rationality and peace, and goodwill and friendship. It is necessary to improve the mechanism to play the role of family education and family style construction in grassroots governance. It is necessary to deepen the reform of trade associations and chambers of commerce, further stimulate endogenous motivation and vitality, and give full play to unique advantages and functions. It is necessary to improve the management system of social organizations, strengthen standardized management, expand orderly participation, and promote social organizations to improve service quality and social credibility. To improve the township (street) responsibilities and power, resources matching system, strengthen the township (street) service management. It is necessary to improve the overall prevention and control system of social security, strengthen patrol control in key areas and parts, and enhance the control of social security; We will improve the working mechanism of eliminating evils and normalizing them, and severely punish illegal and criminal activities that are strongly reflected by the masses, such as those involving evils, telecommunication network fraud, cross-border gambling, guns and explosions, violations of women’s and children’s rights and interests, pornography, drugs, theft and fraud, and spare no effort to safeguard people’s lives and property.
(4) Improve the national security mechanism concerning foreign affairs. With more and more Chinese citizens and enterprises going abroad, foreign-related security plays an increasingly important role in the overall national security work. We should thoroughly study and implement the supreme leader’s diplomatic thoughts, actively implement global security initiatives, plan and promote foreign-related national security work with high standards, strive to create a favorable international environment for China, and resolutely defend national sovereignty, security and development interests. It is necessary to establish and improve the coordination mechanism of peripheral security work and promote security cooperation with neighboring countries. It is necessary to strengthen the system and mechanism of early warning, prevention and control and protection of overseas interests and investment risks, establish a legal risk assessment system for foreign-related projects, guide Chinese-funded enterprises to operate in compliance with laws and regulations overseas, and enhance their awareness and ability of overseas risk prevention and control; Deepen international law enforcement cooperation in the security field, expand the "circle of friends" of law enforcement security cooperation, and effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens and legal persons overseas. It is necessary to improve the mechanism of anti-sanctions, anti-interference and anti-"long-arm jurisdiction", strengthen legislation in the field of foreign-related security, and enrich the legal "toolbox". It is necessary to improve the mechanism for safeguarding maritime rights and interests, improve the cross-military and inter-departmental working mode, and effectively prevent and resolve major security risks related to the sea. It is necessary to improve the mechanism of participating in global security governance, adhere to the concept of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, safeguard the international system with the United Nations at the core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, and respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries.Attach importance to the legitimate security concerns of all countries, actively participate in the bilateral and multilateral mechanisms under the framework of the United Nations, give play to the platform functions of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS cooperation, "China+Five Central Asian countries" and the Global Forum for Public Security Cooperation (Lianyungang), promote the construction of a balanced, effective and sustainable security framework, jointly deal with regional disputes and global security issues, and achieve universal and common security.
III. Basic Requirements for Promoting the Modernization of National Security System and Capacity
To promote the modernization of the national security system and capabilities, we must make clear the work requirements, organize them scientifically and advance them strictly.
(1) Enhance systematic thinking. Promoting the modernization of national security system and capability is a complex system engineering. We should use systematic thinking to observe the security situation, analyze security problems and plan security countermeasures, be good at observing the general trend and seeking great things, not only seeing trees, but also seeing forests, strengthen forward-looking thinking, overall planning, strategic layout and overall promotion, strengthen coordination and efficiency, pay close attention to system penetration, break down departmental and local barriers, and promote the coordination and integration of national security work in all fields.
(2) Consolidate the grassroots foundation. The foundation is not firm, and the ground shakes. With the gradual deepening of the modernization of the national security system and capabilities, some basic and deep-seated problems have become more and more prominent. It is necessary to accurately grasp the characteristics of the current situation and tasks, do a solid job in grasping the grassroots, laying the foundation and benefiting the long-term, strengthen the grassroots strength, basic work and basic capacity building, improve the mechanism, innovative methods and rich means in a targeted manner, and make great efforts to supplement the shortcomings, strengths and weaknesses, and consolidate the foundation for safeguarding national security.
(3) Strengthen publicity and education. Safeguarding national security is a just cause. We should not only "do" unswervingly, but also "speak" confidently. We must adhere to the combination of centralized publicity and education with regular publicity and education, innovate the content, methods and carriers, carry out publicity and education activities that the people love, and extend them to the grassroots, all units and the masses, create a strong atmosphere in which everyone is responsible for national security, and guide the masses to enhance their national security awareness, assume national security responsibilities and enhance their ability to safeguard national security.
(4) Strengthen the implementation of responsibilities. Maintaining national security is the common responsibility of the whole society. It is necessary to overcome the idea of "equality depends on importance", take the initiative and act positively, clarify responsibilities and refine the division of labor, and form a work pattern of grasping the first level and implementing it at all levels, so as to be responsible, responsible and conscientious. Especially for difficult problems, we should carry forward the spirit of nailing, strengthen research, focus on tackling key problems, and ensure breakthroughs. At the same time, we should strengthen communication and coordination, clench our fingers into fists, step forward without leaving gaps, and form a strong joint force that brings together all aspects and levels of the party, government, military and civilian studies.