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We should strengthen and improve our work related to Chinese nationals
overseas to forge a powerful force for all the sons and daughters of the Chinese

nation, both at home and abroad, to work together to make remarkable
achievements.
We should fully implement Xi Jinping’s thinking on strengthening the military
and the military strategy for the new era. Our armed forces, with a focus on the

goals for the centenary of the People’s Liberation Army in 2027, should work to
carry out military operations, boost combat preparedness, and enhance military
capabilities so as to accomplish the tasks entrusted to them by the Party and the
people.

The armed forces should intensify military training and preparedness across
the board, develop new military strategic guidance, devote greater energy to
training under combat conditions, and make well-coordinated efforts to strengthen
military work in all directions and domains.
We should improve all-around military governance and build on and expand

the gains of national defense and military reform. We should see that military
operations, capacity building, and combat preparedness are well-coordinated in
fulfilling major tasks and speed up the implementation of major defense-related
projects.

We should consolidate and enhance integration of national strategies and
strategic capabilities and step up capacity building in science, technology, and
industries related to national defense. We should enhance public awareness about
national defense.

We in governments at all levels should give strong support to the development
of national defense and the armed forces and conduct extensive activities to
promote mutual support between civilian sectors and the military. In doing so, we
will open a new chapter of unity between the military and the government and

between the military and the people.
We should fully, faithfully, and resolutely implement the policy of One
Country, Two Systems, under which the people of Hong Kong administer Hong
Kong and the people of Macao administer Macao, both with a high degree of
autonomy.

We should remain committed to law-based governance in Hong Kong and
Macao and ensure that constitutional order in the two regions is upheld as
stipulated in China’s Constitution and the basic laws of the two regions, and that

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