CCTV News (Focus Interview): Today (April 15) is the 9th National Security Education Day. The theme of this year's National Security Education Day publicity and education activities is "The 10th Anniversary of the Overall National Security Concept and Innovation Leadership". On April 15, 2014, at the first meeting of the Central National Security Commission, General Secretary Xi Jinping creatively put forward the overall national security concept, and emphasized that our party should consolidate its ruling position, unite and lead the people to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, and ensure national security is the top priority. This year marks the 10 th anniversary of the promulgation of the overall concept of national security and the 10 th anniversary of opening up a new situation in national security work. Over the past 10 years, the theoretical guidance and practice of the overall concept of national security have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and remarkable results have been achieved.
National security refers to the state of state power, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, people's well-being, sustainable economic and social development, and other major national interests in a state of relative freedom from danger and internal and external threats, as well as the ability to ensure a sustained state of security.
The key to the overall national security concept lies in the "whole", and what stands out is the concept of general security. It includes not only traditional political security, homeland security, and military security, but also non-traditional economic security, cultural security, social security, scientific and technological security, network security, ecological security, resource security, nuclear security, and overseas interest security. The overall concept of national security is an open strategic ideological system that is constantly evolving with the times over time.
Ma Fang, dean and professor of the School of National Security of Southwest University of Political Science and Law: "When the general secretary put forward the overall national security concept in 2014, these risks were not fully revealed. In the overall national security concept, the most important thinking is to have bottom-line thinking and risk prevention awareness. ”
At present, the internal and external situations facing national security are becoming increasingly severe and complex, and the complexity and arduousness of national security issues have increased significantly. As a result, new changes and adjustments have taken place in the national security pattern, security system, and overall planning.
Yang Mingjie, President of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations: "Looking at development from the perspective of security, looking for security assistance from the perspective of development, that is, coordinating development and security, this change is the biggest. Everyone's understanding is also to continue to understand and learn this theory in the past ten years, and to experience the power of theory in practice. ”
The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China stressed the need to unswervingly implement the overall concept of national security and ensure that safeguarding national security runs through all aspects of the work of the Party and the state. Persist in taking people's security as the purpose, political security as the foundation, economic security as the foundation, military, scientific, technological, cultural, and social security as the guarantee, and the promotion of international security as the basis, coordinate external and internal security, homeland security and national security, traditional and non-traditional security, self-security and common security, coordinate the maintenance and shaping of national security, consolidate the grassroots foundation of national security and social stability, and ensure a new development pattern with a new security pattern. This series of important expositions has both inherited and innovated, marking that our party's understanding and grasp of the laws governing the practice of national security has reached a new height.
In the new bank of the National Germplasm Bank of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, researcher Xin Xia introduced us to a batch of seeds she had just received. The new National Germplasm Bank is known as the "Noah's Ark" of mainland crops, and its design stock capacity is 1.5 million copies, ranking first in the world.
According to reports, the national germplasm resource bank now preserves seeds and germplasm resources of important crops such as grain, cotton, oil, sugar, fruits, vegetables, tea, and mulberry.
Since the implementation of the "Seed Industry Revitalization Action Plan" in 2021, the third national survey of crop germplasm resources has been carried out in full swing, and it will be completed as scheduled by the end of 2023, covering 2,323 counties. The new National Germplasm Resource Bank, which was put into trial operation in September 2021, was established for this purpose.
Chu Yujun, deputy director of the Seed Industry Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: "The national treasury is the important weapon of the country, and the Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the safety of germplasm resources. It is necessary to elevate the safety of seed sources to a strategic height related to national security, do a good job in the revitalization of the seed industry, and serve to ensure national food security. ”
Food security is the "great thing of the country". In the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "we should consolidate the foundation of food security in all aspects, and fully implement the same responsibility of the party and government for food security". China's grain and rice bowl have a special weight in the general secretary's heart.
Ma Fang: "The competition between regional countries and major countries has brought certain damage to the production, storage, consumption and supply chain of grain. Without the guidance of the overall national security concept, there is no awareness of risk prevention, and with the guidance of bottom-line thinking, we can first discover risks, and then improve the relevant security system and system, so as to maintain food security. ”
In the process of development, it is necessary to consider security factors and make decisions and deployments simultaneously. The overall national security concept requires the overall situation to judge and identify risks, and put forward strategies to deal with risks, and the security domains it includes are open and dynamic, and these fields also influence each other.
Yang Mingjie: "The rice bowl mentioned by the general secretary is firmly in our own hands, and now the price of grain is stable, the supply is more abundant, and it has not affected everyone's rice bowl because of the changes in the world grain market, this change comes from everyone's side, and it is closely related to what air and what everyone eats, which is the overall national security concept." ”
In the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, "coordinating development and security" is a main line running through the whole content. The status of "coordinating development and security" has been elevated from the methodological level to the level of strategic deployment, and has become a strategic guide for promoting the development of the cause of the Party and the country in the new era.
Yang Mingjie: "Now it is proposed to use a high-quality security pattern to ensure a high-quality development pattern, and the interaction between the two patterns will form a more secure guarantee in development, and also enjoy more development dividends in the guarantee." ”
Ecological security is an important part of national security, a good ecological environment is the fundamental foundation for the sustainable development of people and society, the Yangtze River is China's mother river, accounting for one-fifth of the country's land area, the Yangtze River basin nourishes one-third of the country's population, produces one-third of the country's grain, is China's economic growth of the most dynamic, the most potential ecological region. At the same time, the Yangtze River is also a treasure trove of biodiversity.
For a long time, affected by many human activities, the aquatic biological resources of the Yangtze River have decreased sharply, rare and endemic species have declined in an all-round way, and biodiversity has continued to decline.
In order to restore the aquatic biodiversity of the Yangtze River, the state has made an important decision to ban fishing on the Yangtze River for 10 years. This year is the third year of the ban on fishing in the Yangtze River, and the once-elusive finless porpoises have appeared in droves.
The "ten-year fishing ban" on the Yangtze River is unprecedented in the history of the protection of ecological resources in the mainland, and it is taken under the guidance of the overall national security concept, and the key measures to jointly protect and ensure the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt play an important role in maintaining national ecological security. In the three years since the implementation of the Yangtze River fishing ban, the number of the iconic Yangtze finless porpoise has stopped falling and rebounded for the first time, the fish resources have rebounded significantly, and biodiversity has shown a gratifying recovery trend.
For example, in the ecological field, the destruction of the environment and ecology leads to the destruction of the economy, and the economy cannot develop, which has a great impact on the social side, and eventually transmits it to the field of political security, so it is not a single field, if the risks in a field are not discovered in time, or if they are not resolved after discovery, its risks will gradually spread out, and the national security system or national security ecology will be damaged, which is the so-called 'overall'. ”
Only by coordinating development and security, enhancing the sense of danger, being prepared for danger in times of peace, integrating national security into the entire process of all aspects of the work of the Party and the state, and planning and deploying together with economic and social development, can we build a momentum of long-term stability and grow the cause of governance.
Yang Mingjie: "There is development with security, but there is no security without development, which is 'one body and two sides', and now it is reflected in all aspects." When it comes to the governance departments of national security, the security awareness and security functions of each department have been looking for their position in the overall national security concept in the past ten years. ”
In the face of the new changes, new characteristics, and new trends in the national security situation, it is necessary to answer this series of major issues of the times theoretically and practically.
Huang Dahui, chief expert and professor of the National Security Interdisciplinary Platform of Renmin University of Chinese, said: "The overall national security concept is a fundamental principle to follow and guide national security work in the new era, and it also promotes the birth and development of the discipline of national security. ”
Yang Mingjie: "After national security has become a first-level discipline, we will prepare talents and professionals for new national security challenges that may be encountered in the future. In this way, in the next 10 years, under the guidance of the overall national security concept, our country will be more capable, more professional and more effective in dealing with risks and challenges in the field of security. ”
The overall concept of national security has opened up a new path for national security governance and provided important theoretical guidance for promoting the mainland's historic leap from big to strong. With the guidance of the overall national security concept, it will surely gather a powerful force to escort and coordinate the overall situation of the great rejuvenation strategy of the Chinese nation and the great changes unprecedented in the world in a century, and will surely form a strong joint force to promote high-quality development and high-level security in an integrated manner, so that every Chinese in the new era will have a more satisfying sense of achievement, a more sustainable sense of happiness, and a more secure sense of security.