Chinese Military Demanding Combat Power from Scientific and Technological Innovation

中國軍隊需要科技創新提升戰力

現代英語:

Demand combat power from technological innovation

■National Defense University of Science and Technology Party Innovation Theory Research Center

Scientific and technological innovation is the core element of developing new quality productivity and a powerful engine for generating new quality combat capability. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, President Xi has profoundly grasped the internal laws of the new military reform and strengthening the army, made the important conclusion that science and technology are the core combat capability, clearly put forward and fully implemented the strategy of strengthening the army through science and technology, and continuously promoted the transformation of our army’s construction model to innovation-driven development. On the new journey, we must persist in innovation-driven development, promote the efficient integration and two-way pull of new quality productivity and new quality combat capability, and continuously improve the contribution of scientific and technological innovation to the construction of the army and the development of combat capability.

Deeply understand the internal logic of how technological innovation generates combat power

Science is a revolutionary force that has played a driving role in history. President Xi’s important statement that science and technology are the core combat power clarifies the inherent logic of scientific and technological innovation and combat power development, and provides scientific guidance for accelerating the modernization of national defense and the military.

Scientific and technological innovation promotes the leap of endogenous elements of combat effectiveness. Marxism believes that the basic elements of combat effectiveness are people, weapons and equipment, and the combination of people and weapons and equipment. Science and technology are not independent elements of combat effectiveness, but they deeply penetrate and integrate into the elements of combat effectiveness, becoming the leading force for the growth of combat effectiveness. From the perspective of people, with the continuous development of science and technology, the technical composition of the army is becoming more and more complex, the degree of specialization is getting higher and higher, and higher and higher requirements are placed on the comprehensive quality of people. From the perspective of weapons and equipment, they themselves are the materialization of science and technology in the military field. Not only does their design and research and development reflect the application of scientific and technological innovation results in the military field, but their production and manufacturing process is also the result of the joint action of high-tech production equipment, high-quality production processes and high-level scientific management. From the perspective of the combination of man and weapon, whether it is inspiring innovation in military theory, leading the adjustment of system organization, or catalyzing the change of combat command, science and technology are increasingly active and revolutionary factors, and have become the catalyst for achieving the best combination of man and weapon. It can be said that the more advanced science and technology are, the higher the degree of informationization and intelligence of war, and the more obvious the role of science and technology in reshaping and improving combat effectiveness.

Scientific and technological innovation leads the development direction of new quality combat power. Looking back at history, every breakthrough in military technology is an important driving force for the gradual disintegration of the old combat force system and the gradual formation of a new combat force system. The invention and use of gunpowder “blew the cavalry class to pieces” and also made infantry and artillery gradually become the main forces on the battlefield; military technological innovations such as tanks and airplanes, while leading human warfare into the mechanized era, gave birth to mechanized combat forces such as armored troops and aviation; the application of emerging technologies such as information network technology has brought new quality combat capabilities such as information attack and defense. At present, a new round of scientific and technological and industrial revolution is surging, with the main features of the continuous emergence of major disruptive technologies, the accelerated transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and the extensive application of a large number of advanced technologies in the military field. Scientific and technological innovation has become the main battlefield of international strategic games. Whoever holds the “bull’s nose” of scientific and technological innovation and takes the first step in scientific and technological innovation will be able to improve combat effectiveness faster, gain technical advantages, and win the initiative.

Scientific and technological innovation catalyzes changes in the way combat power is used. War practice has shown that science and technology are the most direct, powerful and decisive factors in military development. Every major technological advancement has triggered major changes in the form of war and the way of fighting. For example, the emergence of firearms led to the collapse of formation tactics and the emergence of linear tactics; in the information age, integrated joint operations have become the basic form of operations, and platform operations, system support, tactical actions, and strategic guarantees have become the prominent features of modern warfare. With the emergence of high-tech groups such as artificial intelligence, network information, and big data, military intelligence is becoming a powerful driving force for a new round of military reforms, profoundly affecting the future war winning mechanism, combat rules, and combat methods. We must make greater efforts to strengthen the military through science and technology, insist on seeking combat effectiveness from scientific and technological innovation, and seize the strategic initiative of information-based and intelligent warfare.

Accurately grasp the scientific path to gain combat effectiveness through scientific and technological innovation

Innovation capability is the core competitiveness of an army and an accelerator for generating and improving combat effectiveness. We must focus on actual combat, accurately grasp the scientific path of generating combat effectiveness, and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological innovation into combat effectiveness.

Improve the level of military training with scientific and technological innovation. High-tech represented by the new generation of information technology has accelerated its breakthrough application, providing simulation, networking, and confrontational means for actual combat training, joint combat training, scientific and technological training, and training under the rule of law, becoming an important foundation and key guarantee for improving the quality and effectiveness of training and the ability to win. Empower training conditions with science and technology, deeply explore the application of technologies such as generative artificial intelligence, effectively integrate various fields such as land, sea, air, space, electricity, and the Internet, construct a vivid and realistic actual combat training environment, develop advanced means such as combat experiments and war games, and explore new training methods such as “science and technology +” and “network +”. Use science and technology to empower the transformation of training models, keep a close eye on the characteristics of intelligent warfare, innovate intelligent military training models, fully rehearse the next war in military training, actively develop new combat concepts and training theories, comprehensively use “temple computing”, “machine computing” and “intelligent computing” to improve the level of intelligent command research and training, increase new types of training such as unmanned combat, and promote the integration of new quality forces into the combat system.

Promote the development of weapons and equipment with scientific and technological innovation. Scientific and technological innovation is the most active element and the most powerful driving force for the modernization of weapons and equipment. The long-term construction of the equipment system must be guided by the future combat needs brought about by the progress of military science and technology, and the leapfrog development of the weapons and equipment system must be achieved. The concept and development ideas of military demand generation that are oriented to long-term development and focus on the promotion of scientific and technological innovation must be established, and the strategic needs of short-term and long-term development must be well connected. It is necessary to accelerate the upgrading and replacement of weapons and equipment and the development of intelligent weapons and equipment, strengthen the construction of high-tech weapons and equipment and new concept weapons and equipment, and promote the modernization level of weapons and equipment to accelerate into the ranks of the world’s advanced countries. It is necessary to accelerate the transformation from the development of single equipment elements to the formation of system capabilities, use network information systems to connect various combat elements, clench fingers into a fist to exert overall effectiveness, and form joint combat capabilities.

Strengthen the effectiveness of military governance through scientific and technological innovation. Comprehensively strengthening military governance is a strategic requirement for accelerating the modernization of national defense and the military, and science and technology are important means to promote the modernization of military governance capabilities. At present, our military construction is at a critical stage of improving quality and efficiency. We must use scientific thinking to update governance concepts, strengthen system concepts, strengthen overall coordination, focus on aggregating governance resources, reducing governance costs, and improving governance effectiveness, and improve the systematicity, integrity, and coordination of military governance. We must use scientific and technological means to improve strategic management, strengthen the application of advanced technologies in military governance, further open up strategic management links, substantially promote the military management revolution, accelerate the construction of a modern military logistics system and a modern military asset management system, and improve the operational efficiency of the military system and the efficiency of the use of national defense resources.

We must firmly grasp the practical implementation of accelerating the transformation of science and technology into combat power

The purpose of national defense science and technology innovation is application. It must serve the construction of the troops and military combat readiness and increase its contribution to combat effectiveness. We must firmly grasp the key points of focusing, transforming and implementing science and technology into combat effectiveness, so that advanced science and technology can be transformed into real combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

Accelerate the research of key core technologies. Key core technologies are the country’s heavy weapons, an important foundation for the comprehensive strength of a modern country, and the most direct core combat power of the military. We must take practical measures to achieve practical results in close contact with military needs, clarify the direction and focus of key core technology research, distinguish between priorities, design key core technology systems, focus on being able to fight and win battles, and concentrate on breakthroughs in key core technologies. We must make every effort to tackle “stuck neck” technologies, focus on blocking points, breakpoints, and card points to make up for shortcomings, and concentrate on tackling key problems. We must aim at high-end frontiers, strengthen forward-looking, leading, exploratory, and disruptive technology research, and strive to seize the strategic commanding heights of military competition. We must increase investment in basic research on national defense, adhere to the principle of giving equal importance to free exploration and goal-oriented research, drive through major scientific and technological issues, abstract theoretical problems from major applied research, and then explore scientific laws, strive to achieve major breakthroughs in forward-looking basic research and leading original achievements, and enhance the driving force of national defense science and technology innovation.

We must do a good job in the transformation and application of innovative achievements. Achievements that are shelved are useless, while innovations that take root are worth ten times as much. We must establish a clear orientation of serving the military and fighting, pay close attention to prominent issues such as long transformation cycles and low utilization rates, and face the battlefield, the troops, and the future from the beginning of the project. We must increase the promotion and application of advanced and mature independent innovation achievements so that scientific and technological innovation can better serve combat power construction. We must promote the deep integration of national defense science and technology innovation into the national innovation system, actively discover, cultivate, and use cutting-edge technologies that can serve national defense and military construction, capture potential growth points for the development of military capabilities, and form comparative advantages and asymmetric checks and balances. We must further explore the transformation mechanism and operation model of scientific and technological achievements, adopt comprehensive measures from the aspects of improving the evaluation system, carrying out institutional reform, and improving service guarantees, so as to open up the innovative chain of scientific and technological achievements from basic research, applied research, technology development to military application, and provide strong scientific and technological support for winning information-based and intelligent wars.

Continuously improve the scientific and technological literacy of officers and soldiers. Accelerating the transformation of science and technology into combat effectiveness requires officers and soldiers of the whole army to master new equipment, improve new skills, explore new tactics, and enhance scientific and technological cognition, innovation, and application. We must continue to increase the intensity of learning and applying scientific and technological knowledge, so that our own scientific and technological literacy will always be in sync with the development of the times and resonate with job requirements. In particular, leading cadres at all levels must take the lead and strive to become leaders in learning high-tech knowledge, guides in practicing science and technology to strengthen the army, and people who understand information warfare. We must strengthen scientific and technological training, make good use of scientific and technological forces, significantly increase the scientific and technological content of training, keep a close eye on strong enemies in training, aim at learning on future battlefields, and strive to transform the scientific and technological advantages of the troops into capability advantages and combat advantages. We must take improving the scientific and technological literacy of officers and soldiers as a basic task, popularize scientific knowledge and promote the scientific spirit throughout the army, and pool the wisdom and strength to win the battle to achieve the goal of building the army for the centenary.

(Written by: Liu Yangqian, Zhang Xiubo, Wang Tao)

現代國語:

向科技創新要戰鬥力

■國防科技大學黨的創新理論研究中心

科技創新是發展新質生產力的核心要素,也是生成新質戰鬥力的強大引擎。黨的十八大以來,習主席深刻把握新軍事變革和強軍興軍內在規律,作出科技是核心戰鬥力的重大論斷,鮮明提出並全面實施科技強軍戰略,不斷推動我軍建設模式向創新驅動發展轉變。新征途上,我們必須堅持創新驅動,推動新質生產力同新質戰鬥力高效融合、雙向拉動,不斷提高科技創新對軍隊建設和戰鬥力發展的貢獻率。

深刻理解科技創新催生戰鬥力的內在邏輯

科學是一種在歷史上起推動作用的、革命的力量。習主席關於科技是核心戰鬥力的重要論述,闡明了科技創新與戰鬥力發展的內在邏輯,為加速國防和軍隊現代化提供了科學指引。

科技創新推動戰鬥力內生要素躍升。馬克思主義認為,戰鬥力的基本構成要素是人、武器裝備以及人與武器裝備的結合方式。科技不是戰鬥力構成的獨立要素,但卻深度滲透和融入戰鬥力構成要素之中,成為戰鬥力增長的先導力量。從人的角度來看,隨著科學技術不斷發展,軍隊的技術構成越來越複雜,專業化程度越來越高,對人的綜合素質提出越來越高的要求。從武器裝備的角度來看,其本身就是科技在軍事領域的物化表現,不僅其設計研發體現著科技創新成果在軍事領域的應用,其生產製造過程也是高技術生產設備、高質量生產工藝和高水平科學管理等共同作用的結果。從人與武器的結合來看,無論是激發軍事理論創新、引領體制編制調整,或是催化作戰指揮變革,科學技術都是日趨活躍和具有革命性的因素,已成為實現人與武器最優結合的催化劑。可以說,科學技術越先進,戰爭資訊化、智慧化程度越高,科技對重塑和提升戰鬥力的作用就愈發明顯。

科技創新引領新質戰鬥力發展方向。回顧歷史,軍事技術的每一次突破,都是推動舊有作戰力量體系逐步瓦解和新型作戰力量體系逐步形成的重要動力。火藥的發明和使用,“把騎士階層炸得粉碎”,也使步兵和砲兵逐步成為戰場的主要力量;坦克、飛機等軍事科技革新,在把人類戰爭引向機械化時代的同時,催生了裝甲兵、航空兵等機械化作戰力量;信息網絡技術等信息攻防等新質作戰能力。當前,新一輪科技與產業革命風起雲湧,其主要特點是重大顛覆性技術不斷湧現,科技成果轉化速度加快,大量先進科技在軍事領域廣泛應用,科技創新成為國際戰略博弈的主要戰場。誰牽住了科技創新這個“牛鼻子”,誰走好了科技創新這步先手棋,誰就能較快提升戰鬥力,佔得技術優勢、贏得制勝先機。

科技創新催化戰鬥力運用方式變革。戰爭實踐表明,科學技術是軍事發展最直接、最強大、最具決定性的因素,每次重大技術進步都引發了戰爭形態和作戰方式的重大變革。例如,火器的出現導致了陣戰戰術的瓦解和線式戰術的產生;資訊化時代,一體化聯合作戰成為基本作戰形式,平台作戰、體系支撐、戰術行動、戰略保障成為現代戰爭的顯著特點。隨著人工智慧、網路資訊、大數據等高新技術群體迸發,軍事智慧化正成為推動新一輪軍事變革的強大動力,深刻影響著未來戰爭制勝機理、作戰規則和作戰方法。我們必須下更大氣力推動科技強軍,堅持向科技創新要戰鬥力,掌握資訊化智慧化戰爭戰略主動。

準確掌握向科技創新要戰鬥力的科學路徑

創新能力是一支軍隊的核心競爭力,也是產生和提升戰鬥力的加速器。必須堅持聚焦實戰,準確掌握戰鬥力生成科學路徑,讓科技創新向戰鬥力加速轉化。

以科技創新提升軍事訓練水準。以新一代資訊科技為代表的高新科技加速突破應用,為實戰實訓、聯戰聯訓、科技強訓、依法治訓提供了模擬化、網絡化、對抗性手段,成為提升訓練質效和打贏能力的重要基礎和關鍵保障。以科技賦能訓練條件建設,深入探索生成式人工智慧等技術應用,把陸、海、空、天、電、網等各領域有效融合起來,構設生動逼真的實戰化訓練環境,發展作戰實驗、兵棋推演等先進手段,探索“科技+”“網絡+”等訓練新方法。以科技賦能訓練模式轉變,緊盯智能化戰爭特點,創新智能化軍事訓練模式,在軍事訓練中充分預演下一場戰爭,積極開發新型作戰概念和訓練理論,綜合運用“廟算”“機算”“智算”提升智能指揮研練水平,加大無人作戰等新樣式訓練,推動新質力量融入作戰體系。

以科技創新推動武器裝備發展。科技創新是武器裝備現代化最活躍的元素和最強大的驅動力量。必須以軍事科技進步帶來的未來作戰需求引領裝備體系的長遠建設,實現武器裝備體系的跨越式發展,確立起面向長遠發展、注重科技創新推動的軍事需求生成理念和發展思路,對接好短期與長遠發展的戰略需求。必須加速武器裝備升級換代和智慧化武器裝備發展,加強高技術武器裝備、新概念武器裝備建設,推動武器裝備現代化水準加速邁入世界先進行列。必須加速由單裝要素發展到形成體系能力轉變,用網絡資訊系統聯結各作戰要素,攥指成拳發揮整體效能,形成聯合作戰能力。

以科技創新增強軍事治理效能。全面加強軍事治理是加速國防和軍隊現代化的戰略要求,科技是促進軍事治理能力現代化的重要手段。當前,我軍建設正處在提質增效的關鍵階段。要運用科學思維更新治理理念,強化系統觀念,加強全局統籌,著力聚合治理資源、降低治理成本、提升治理效能,提升軍事治理系統性、整體性、協同性。要運用科技手段改進戰略管理,加強先進技術在軍事治理中的應用,進一步暢通戰略管理鏈路,實質性推進軍事管理革命,加快建設現代軍事物流體系、軍隊現代資產管理體系,提高軍事系統運行效能和國防資源使用效益。

緊緊扭住加速科技向戰鬥力轉化的實踐落點

國防科技創新目的在於應用,必須為部隊建設和軍事鬥爭準備服務,提高對戰鬥力的貢獻率。要牢牢扭轉科技向戰鬥力聚焦、轉化、落地的關鍵點發力,讓先進科學技術盡快轉化為現實戰鬥力。

加快關鍵核心技術攻關。關鍵核心技術是國之重器,是現代化國家綜合實力的重要基礎,也是軍隊最直接的核心戰鬥力。要在緊貼軍事需求上出實招求實效,明確關鍵核心技術攻關方向和重心,區分輕重緩急,設計關鍵核心技術體系,聚焦能打仗打勝仗,集中突破關鍵核心技術。要在「卡脖子」技術上全力攻堅,聚焦堵點、斷點、卡點補短板,聚力攻關。要瞄準高端前沿,加強前​​瞻性、先導性、探索性、顛覆性技術研究,奮力搶佔軍事競爭戰略制高點。要加大國防基礎研究投入,堅持自由探索和目標導向並重,透過重大科技問題帶動,在重大應用研究中抽像出理論問題,進而探索科學規律,努力實現前瞻性基礎研究、引領性原創成果重大突破,增強國防科技創新的原動力。

抓好創新成果轉化運用。束之高閣的成果百無一用,落地生根的創新以一當十。要立起姓軍為戰的鮮明導向,緊盯轉化週期長、利用率低等突出問題,在立項之初就面向戰場、面向部隊、面向未來,加大先進成熟的自主創新成果推廣應用,使科技創新更好為戰鬥力建設服務。推動國防科技創新深度融入國家創新體系,主動發現、培育、運用可服務於國防和軍隊建設的前沿尖端技術,捕捉軍事能力發展的潛在增長點,形成比較優勢和非對稱制衡能力。要進一步探索科技成果轉化機制和運作模式,從健全評價體系、抓好制度改革、完善服務保障等方面綜合施策,暢通科技成果從基礎研究、應用研究、技術開發到軍事應用的創新鏈路,為打贏資訊化智能化戰爭提供堅強有力的科技支撐。

不斷提高官兵科技素養。加速科技向戰鬥力轉化,要求全軍官兵熟練新裝備、提升新技能、探索新戰法,增強科技認知力、創新力、運用力。要不斷加大科技知識的學用力度,讓自身科技素養始終與時代發展同頻、與崗位需求共振,特別是各級領導幹部要率先垂範,努力成為學習高科技知識的帶頭人,實踐科技強軍的引路人,駕馭資訊化戰爭的明白人。要強化科技練兵,用好用足科技力量,大幅提升訓練科技含量,緊盯強敵對手練,瞄準未來戰場學,努力把部隊的科技優勢轉化為能力優勢、作戰優勢。要把提高官兵科技素養作為基礎工作來抓,在全軍普及科學知識、弘揚科學精神,凝聚起全力打贏實現建軍一百年奮鬥目標攻堅戰的智慧力量。

(執筆:劉楊鉞、張秀波、王濤)

中國原創軍事資源:http://www.mod.gov.cn/gfbw/jmsd/163155888.html

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