How to promote the development of our military vocational education in the new era? The authoritative answer is coming!
The way to strengthen the army is to get people. President Xi stressed at the Central Military Commission’s talent work conference that it is necessary to adhere to the road of independent training of talents, adhere to the combination of military training and various ways, form a talent training and use mode with our military characteristics, and improve the supply capacity and level of talents preparing for war.
In recent years, our army has vigorously promoted military vocational education, built a ubiquitous learning environment where everyone can learn, learn everywhere and learn all the time, and provided strong talent and intellectual support for realizing the party’s goal of strengthening the army in the new era and building a world-class army in an all-round way.
December 11th is the first anniversary of the promulgation of the Regulations on Military Vocational Education (Trial). Looking back at this special node, what achievements have been made in the development of our military vocational education in the new era and what changes have been brought to the training of military talents? The reporter of the People’s Liberation Army Daily interviewed the relevant leaders of the Vocational Education Bureau of the Training Management Department of the Military Commission, and looked forward to the boosting role of military vocational education in improving the quality of officers and men, enhancing the combat effectiveness of the troops and improving the ability to win future wars.
Win talents and strengthen the army by learning.
-Leaders of the Vocational Education Bureau of the Training Management Department of the Military Commission answered questions from reporters on the development of military vocational education in the new era.
■ Liberation Army Daily reporter Liu Jianwei Peng Bingjie Special correspondent Xu You Wu Xu

The air force in the western theater vigorously promoted military vocational education, and the officers and men of a radar brigade were all smiles after obtaining the certificate. Photo by Liang Jie
The continuous "military academy with camp" accelerates the growth of officers and men.
-The network-based open military vocational education system covers military camps.
Q: What is the overall development of our military vocational education?
A: At present, military vocational education is being carried out in an all-round and orderly way. More than 2,500 massive open online course courses, more than 13,000 micro-courses and more than 248,000 test questions have been launched on the service platform of the military comprehensive network (including the Armed Police Network) of military vocational education. There are 2.7 million registered users of the military integrated network service platform, 5.4 million registered users of the Internet service platform and nearly 110,000 registered users of the military mobile phone APP … The learning resources are constantly enriched and the functions of the network platform are constantly improved.
At this stage, military vocational education has initially formed a ubiquitous learning environment of military vocational education, which combines military comprehensive network, armed police network and Internet, web version, APP version and WeChat applet, and online learning and offline learning.
Q: How to promote practical and effective learning measures in military vocational education?
A: Since the promulgation of the Regulations on Military Vocational Education in the Army (Trial), all major units have formulated and promulgated relevant rules for the implementation of the Regulations in light of their own reality, which has provided a basis for promoting the work.
In order to clarify the functions and responsibilities of all levels in military vocational education, we have established a regular docking and exchange mechanism with large units to grasp the classified guidance; We went to more than 70 colleges and troops to find out the truth and seek practical solutions, organized 250,000 officers and men to conduct online questionnaires, sorted out 34 practical problems in five categories, and studied and put forward solutions one by one.
Coordinate the construction of three-network learning platforms such as military integrated network, Internet and military mobile APP. Set up a lifelong learning account for each officer, and provide online courses and other learning resources, seminars, exchanges and exams; Select and push courses according to thematic modules, strengthen classified management, and facilitate officers and men to choose courses; Provide online learning groups and effectiveness tracking data kanban and other functions to help officers and men keep abreast of learning trends and improve learning efficiency.
Many grass-roots units have built or renovated online learning rooms and micro-lesson production rooms in Yinglian, providing officers and men with a fully functional learning platform. The continuous "military school with the camp" has accelerated the growth of officers and men, and learning to punch in, do exams, and exchange and share has become a daily habit of officers and men.
Q: With the vigorous development of military vocational education, what changes have been brought to the construction of learning-oriented military camps?
A: A networked, open and full-coverage military vocational education system has gradually taken shape, completely opening the "fence" of college education.
The military integrated network service platform provides one-stop online services such as learning, teaching and management for officers and men; Internet service platform is connected with online learning resource platforms such as China University massive open online course and Xuetang Online, and more than 20,000 general military and military courses have been introduced, thus enriching digital learning resources.
From the Gobi desert to the alpine forest, from the "underground dragon palace" to the offshore island reef, every officer and soldier can realize various functions such as resource learning, discussion exchange and examination through the network platform. In order to meet the needs of troops’ field training, voyage and diversified military tasks, we have also developed an offline learning system without network environment, which is gradually put into use.
As an organized and self-employed modern continuing education, military vocational education has not only become a platform for talent training, but also a supplement, extension, expansion and support for military academy education and military training practice. Colleges and universities use the military vocational education platform to carry out preparatory courses, which greatly promotes the reform of classroom teaching mode. The troops use the military vocational education platform to carry out outline theory courses and professional courses, which greatly improves the quality and efficiency of training.
Full-time, full-time and global ubiquitous learning has become a common practice.
—— Virtual game-based learning platform stimulates officers and men’s interest in learning.
Q: How to give full play to the initiative of the grassroots and officers and men and form a ubiquitous learning environment?
A: Military vocational education is not a simple self-study, but a systematic design with careful organization and clear objectives around the career development of officers and men, so that the knowledge structure of military personnel can be updated in time, and their performance ability and professional quality can be improved in an all-round way.
Therefore, the army should guide officers and men to make learning plans and choose learning contents according to their missions and construction and development needs; Through individualized study plan, diversified course selection, precise study guidance and interactive teaching organization, officers and men should learn independently, voluntarily and individually.
Many units have made active explorations, such as "tailoring" a study plan for each officer, arranging courses according to the actual tasks, hobbies and shortcomings of the individual, and assigning the backbone of the study group to lead the inspectors.
In the new era, the organization level of military vocational education has been continuously improved and the methods have become more flexible, and full-time, full-time and global ubiquitous learning has become a common practice. Some officers and men reported that at the beginning of the operation of the military vocational education platform, they and people around them were not enthusiastic about learning. With the increasingly personalized and interactive course content and learning plan, everyone became eager to learn and loved learning.
Q: Under the background of the new era, how to stimulate the interest of officers and men in autonomous learning?
A: Take "Re-taking the Long March Road", the most popular open class on the platform, as an example. This online virtual training course for ideological and political courses launched by the Armed Police Academy has set a record for nearly 1.18 million people to choose courses.
Through roaming VR, video lessons, audio lessons, encyclopedias, games, answering questions and other forms, the production team truly reproduces the history of that bloody battle, and officers and men can go deep into the immersive experience of field scenes in several provinces and cities along the Long March footprint.
What kind of learning methods do officers and men like? This course is a vivid answer-to stimulate the interest of officers and men in autonomous learning through networked and flexible learning methods.
We have successively set up columns such as "Military Micro-course" and "Scientific Training" on the network platform, organized online reading group activities, and launched the knowledge contest PK on "Party History and Military History", attracting more than 400,000 users to participate in it … By creating a "course supermarket" and a "central kitchen" that gather all kinds of high-quality resources, we have launched a online celebrity course that is close to actual needs and loved by officers and men, effectively meeting the diverse learning needs of officers and men.
From offline to online, from prescribed actions to independent choices, more and more officers and men have realized the transformation from "I want to learn" to "I want to learn" and benefited from it.
Q: What changes have military vocational education brought to grassroots officers and soldiers in the new era?
A: The development of military vocational education pays close attention to the needs of officers and men to become talents and combat effectiveness, so that everyone can understand what they need to learn, where to learn, how to learn and how to learn efficiently.
In the past, many officers and men reported that although there was a lot of information from various channels, there was a lack of professional knowledge that could really meet the needs, and what they wanted to learn could not be seen and what they saw could not be used. Now, in the system of military vocational education, which has no "fence" and is fully open, the "package" of learning courses tailored for various positions for the vast number of officers and men has truly covered the learning content. The course content focuses on preparing for war, taking into account personal career development, quality improvement, hobbies, etc., and also meets the needs of officers and men for academic upgrading and skill learning.
In recent years, many officers and men have realized post transformation, ability improvement and self-change through military vocational education. Up to now, 160,000 officers and men have upgraded their academic qualifications through military vocational education, and nearly 30,000 people have obtained special certificates for the national information and communication industry through examinations and entered the database of skilled personnel of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Military vocational education covers the main positions of various arms and services.
-Taking the ability to fight and win as the starting point and the end result.
Q: How to implement the requirements of "post-oriented, integrated and open" in military vocational education in practical work?
A: Focusing on preparing for war is the common requirement of the core competence of military vocational posts. Focusing on military occupations, highlighting the main business of fighting and serving for training and preparing for war are also the core values of military vocational education.
Military vocational education, guided by the core competence and quality requirements of various military professional posts at all levels, is effectively connected with the practical needs of the army and the requirements of post performance, and builds an educational resource system covering all military professional posts. Through the integration of training and preparation, central work, main responsibility and cultural life, it plays a service and synergy role in the all-round construction of the army.
In practice, many units have organically integrated military vocational education with combat readiness training, coordinated with combat training tasks, promoted education and learning to be close to actual combat, and served to support officers and men in studying military affairs, wars and wars.
In June this year, the whole army started the construction of 649 key courses of military vocational education to meet the needs of improving officers’ professional quality, performing their duties in typical posts, and simulating training of new equipment, and combined with combat readiness training, political education, daily management, and major tasks to further strengthen the awareness and ability of the majority of officers and men in lifelong learning.
Q: What specific measures have been taken to promote the integration of military vocational education into the "four orders" and serve for training and preparing for war?
A: In recent years, the whole army has made great efforts to improve the "trinity" new military personnel training system, give full play to the unique advantages of military vocational education, and carry out strategic literacy, joint literacy, command literacy and scientific and technological literacy learning and training; Using the new concept of post knowledge map, make a list of learning guidance for commanders at brigade and battalion levels and develop online learning courses; Compile a series of counseling books such as Military Intelligence and High-tech Knowledge in combination with the job requirements at all levels … In short, officers and men should offer whatever they need to learn to improve their winning ability.
In addition, on the military integrated network service platform, we launched a variety of emergency response topics, with a total of 300,000 visits; The number of "unique skills and unique skills" micro-courses built and shared by officers and men of the army reached more than 12,000; Introduced eight information literacy skills certification trainings from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and registered more than 350,000 officers and men; The Army, Navy and Rocket Army are docking with local industry departments, conducting pilot training for UAV operators, and boosting the rapid generation of new combat effectiveness of the troops … All these have promoted military vocational education to focus on training and preparing for war, focusing on the urgent needs of the troops, focusing on post performance, and focusing on cutting-edge development.
Q: Looking to the future, how to further promote the development of military vocational education?
A: We should thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the talent work conference of the Central Military Commission, thoroughly implement the strategy of strengthening the army with talents in the new era, and take the ability to fight and win as the starting point and the end result of promoting military vocational education.
Compared with the practice of military academy education and military training, military vocational education can realize the benign interaction of military and local personnel training in a larger space, at a higher level and in a wider field. To firmly establish the learning ability is the clear orientation of competitiveness, development and combat effectiveness, constantly improve the learning ability and win the acceleration of strengthening the army.
Military vocational education, as an overall strategic and long-term systematic project, needs to be promoted steadily and steadily. Especially in the new era, it is necessary to strengthen the concept of integration and sharing and further promote diversified implementation, personalized learning, intelligent service and refined management.
We must firmly establish the concept that grasping military vocational education means grasping the construction of combat effectiveness, and promote the development of military vocational education in depth with the perseverance of "sticking to the green hills and not relaxing", the mind of "predecessors planting trees and future generations enjoying the cool" and the tenacity of "accumulating thousands of miles" to provide strong talent support for realizing the party’s goal of strengthening the army in the new era.

Teachers of a base of airborne troops teach wartime political work in the airborne simulation training ground. Fan Guizhen
Learning ability is competitiveness, development ability and combat effectiveness.
■ Teaching will succeed.
At present, the atmosphere in which the whole army pays great attention to learning is increasingly strong. Military vocational education adapts to the characteristics of fragmented time learning of officers and men, and gives play to the unique advantages of "fast, accurate, new, practical and flexible", which effectively promotes the improvement of the level of military training and preparation and the ability of officers and men to perform their duties.
A strong army depends on talents, and a first-class army must first have first-class talents. As an important support of the "Trinity" new military personnel training system, military vocational education shoulders the glorious mission of building a learning army and cultivating learning soldiers, which is related to the process and quality of military personnel modernization and is the fundamental way for us to keep up with the times, be competent for our posts and enhance our ability.
We must set up a lofty pursuit, continue to exert ourselves for a long time, and embark on a path of military vocational education with the characteristics of our army. Only in this way can we improve the ability of officers and men to perform their duties, enhance their comprehensive quality, help officers and men grow into talents, and push our army to be at the forefront of the times, military, strategic and technological, and finally achieve checks and balances and surpass their opponents.
We must adhere to the only fundamental standard of combat effectiveness. To promote military vocational education, we must focus on fighting, guide officers and men to study the military, war and war, learn high-tech knowledge, and promote the solution of shortcomings and weaknesses in fighting ability. Focus on the post, take the core competence of the post as the main line, distinguish different war zones and different services and arms, distinguish different types of commanding officers, technical officers, non-commissioned officers and civilian personnel, and build a learning content system of military vocational education to help officers and men grow into talents and be competent for their posts. Focusing on the urgent need, what officers and men lack most and what they need most, military vocational education should highlight what to learn and what to make up, so as to truly be in urgent need of urgent delivery and specialized study. Focus on the future, highlight professional qualities such as strategic literacy and joint literacy, design the content of military vocational education in a forward-looking way, and focus on building a world-class army and cultivating first-class talents.
We must adhere to the "four orders" of the army and achieve sustainable development. The development of military vocational education should be well integrated with training and preparation for war, central work, taking charge of the main business and cultural life, and should not be eager for success, quick success, and rank in name only, so as to solve the contradiction between learning and working, and play a role in enhancing service for the all-round construction of the army. Based on the existing conditions, we should adhere to the combination of online and offline, fixed and mobile, guide officers and men to stand on their posts, use effective methods, rely on useful resources and learn useful knowledge in a limited time, and help improve the overall quality of officers and men and their ability to prepare for war.
A brigade of the 81st Army
Innovative means to open the "fence" of education
■ Liberation Army Daily reporter Liu Jianwei Peng Bingjie correspondent Yang Xingcan
In the middle of the night, the multimedia classroom of a brigade of the 81st Army was brightly lit. Jia Xiangyu, the third-class sergeant, conducted a long-distance discussion and exchange with college experts around topics such as equipment anti-jamming and missile shooting preparation in complex electromagnetic environment, seeking the optimal solution in many aspects of equipment training.
"In recent years, the brigade has actively innovated the normalized organizational model of military vocational education, and the learning methods of officers and men have become more flexible and enthusiastic." Zhang Haichao, chief of the brigade’s training section, said with relief.
"Only by keeping up with the pace of development of the times and opening the education’ wall’ with innovative means can we promote the effectiveness of military vocational education." According to the leaders of the brigade, starting from consolidating the talent base, they have sent 16 officers and men to local colleges and technology companies for further training, invited professors and technicians from resident colleges and universities to give lectures and guidance, and trained a group of compound talents who understand the network and have technology.
Driven by the technical backbone team, the brigade keeps a close eye on the needs of army building and the talents of officers and men, and relies on the "micro-course mobile production station" to complete the production of more than 20 courses, such as military physical fitness and methods of leading troops, to guide the daily work training of officers and men; In order to meet the learning needs of officers and men during the training, they independently developed an intelligent auxiliary platform for theoretical learning in the "learning era", and embedded the excellent military-civilian courses produced by the brigade into the mobile APP, so that officers and men can learn at any time and place.
"In the past, when I encountered equipment failure problems, I needed to consult information and ask questions from many parties, and the solutions I got were very limited." From a grassroots officer to a military camp "maker", missile trumpeter Zhuang Kai felt a lot. "Now, it is very convenient and quick to consult with college experts one by one." Not long ago, he used the military integrated network service platform to develop an insulation detection device for missile launch vehicles under the guidance of experts, which greatly shortened the equipment detection time.
An experimental brigade of the army
Learning achievement extends to the proving ground.
■ Liberation Army Daily reporter Liu Jianwei Peng Bingjie correspondent Su Dingkang
In early December, a new equipment test mission was launched in a test position in Saibei grassland. In the simulated confrontation exercise, in the face of the sudden interference and suppression of the "enemy" and the complex electromagnetic environment, Luo Yong, the leader of a test brigade of the Army, immediately changed his deployment and reorganized the network in various ways to ensure accurate, confidential and uninterrupted communication, and the test task was successfully completed.
"The’ inspiration’ of today’s’ operation’ comes from a course of’ Mobile Operations of Radar Soldiers in Complex Electromagnetic Environment’ that I took on the military vocational education platform." At the group’s resumption meeting, Luo Yong said excitedly, "I didn’t even think about it before being able to complete such a difficult task independently. Thanks to my’ online teacher’ to help me quickly expand my ability! "
According to zhaowei, a staff member of the brigade, in recent years, the brigade has vigorously promoted military vocational education, helped each officer to choose no less than two professional courses and one interest course according to his personal post and military training plan, and organized regular small discussions, small discussions, small comments and small reports in the form of personal in-depth study, help and supervision, and mutual exchange, so that officers and men can talk about the gains of online learning and encourage officers and men to use the knowledge they have learned to solve practical problems.
In the face of the emergency situation that the drone engine suddenly failed to operate, Zhang Huru, the fourth-level master sergeant, quickly found the cause of the failure according to the knowledge taught by the online course "UAV drone operation". Inspired by the course of "Electromagnetic Environment in Battlefield", Gao Wanfeng, a senior engineer in a laboratory of the brigade, focused on designing and improving the examination and test scheme for the subsequent new equipment tests … "Driven by the guidance of grasping learning for the war, the officers and men of the brigade are more and more enthusiastic about learning, and the atmosphere of applying what they have learned is getting stronger and stronger." Zhaowei said happily.