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integration between new quality productive forces and new combat
capabilities so that the development of one helps drive that of the other.

We should develop advanced defense-related science, technology, and
industry systems, improve planning for these fields, and promote
interoperability between military and civilian standards. We should

strengthen work on submitting and reporting on defense-related military
needs, enhance military-civilian alignment, and ensure that all major
infrastructure facilities meet national defense requirements, so that our

strategic needs are better fulfilled in advance.
We should work faster to develop national defense mobilization
capabilities and build up our reserve forces. We should modernize our border,

coastal, and air defense and get our Party, government, military, police, and
civilians all working together on consolidating our borders and defense. We
should raise public awareness of national defense and further strengthen the

unity between the military and the government and between the military and
the people.

XV. Rallying the Whole Party and All Chinese People and Striving to
Fulfill the 15th Five-Year Plan

Upholding and strengthening the Party’s overall leadership is the
fundamental guarantee for advancing Chinese modernization. We should use
the Party’s self-reform to steer social reform and stay committed to
strengthening full and rigorous Party self-governance. We should see to it

that our Party becomes better at providing political leadership and theoretical
guidance, organizing the people, and inspiring society, while also improving

its ability to lead China’s economic and social development endeavors. All
this will enable us to gather a mighty force for advancing Chinese
modernization.
56. Upholding and strengthening the Party Central Committee’s centralized,

unified leadership
We should refine the mechanisms through which the Party Central
Committee’s major decisions and plans are carried out so as to ensure

cohesion across different levels and effective implementation. We should
continue to apply the Party’s new theories to achieve unity in thinking, will,
and action. We should develop intraparty democracy and improve and

implement democratic centralism to ensure that decision-making is sound,

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