CCTV News: On the afternoon of March 27, the Ministry of National Defense held a regular press conference, and Colonel Wu Qian, director of the Ministry of National Defense News Bureau and spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense, answered questions from reporters.

Reporter: President Xi recently attended the plenary meeting of the People's Liberation Army and Armed Police Force delegation of the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress and delivered an important speech, emphasizing the implementation of the requirements of high-quality development and the successful conclusion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the construction of our army. How is the military progress in completing the 14th Five-Year Plan? What key and difficult issues will be focused on in the next step to fight the tough battle?

Wu Qian: Over the past four years since the implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the construction of our army, the whole army has focused on achieving the 100th goal of the founding of the army as scheduled, adhered to the combat effectiveness standards, focused on overcoming difficulties, and made every effort to promote the implementation of the various tasks arranged in the plan, and achieved a series of major results, especially the accelerated supply of new quality combat effectiveness, and the strategic ability of the People's Army to effectively fulfill its mission and tasks in the new era has been continuously enhanced. At the same time, the construction tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan" are still arduous and heavy, and have entered a critical stage of climbing the hill and overcoming the hurdle and ending the sprint.

All officers and soldiers of the army will thoroughly implement the spirit of President Xi’s important speech, strengthen confidence, face challenges, step up efforts to promote the finalization of the plan, focus on handling the relationship between progress and quality, continuously improve the strategic management system and mechanism, and further strengthen process control. We must not only adhere to the progress requirements, but also achieve performance goals, and resolutely prevent the sacrifice of construction quality in order to catch up with the progress. Focus on handling the relationship between cost and efficiency, unswervingly follow the path of high-quality, high-efficiency, low-cost and sustainable development, make good use of various advantageous forces and resources, scientifically allocate the investment volume of national defense resources, and improve the accuracy and efficiency ratio of fund use. Focus on handling the relationship between the overall situation and key points, further strengthen overall coordination and precise regulation of planning implementation, focus on major projects and key projects, and focus on tackling key projects, and use key breakthroughs to drive the overall implementation of the plan. Focus on handling the relationship between development and supervision, put supervision in a more prominent position, build a complete and effective supervision system, and form a supervision synergy to ensure the quality of construction, form capabilities as scheduled, and maintain the bottom line of integrity. Focus on handling the relationship between planning implementation and capability formation, innovate combat effectiveness generation mode, improve advanced technology agile response and rapid transformation mechanisms, accelerate the transformation of the delivery project to the delivery capacity, and ensure that the strong combat effectiveness of a strong army to win the battle as scheduled.