The CPC's Absolute Leadership over the People's Armed Forces
Ensuring the Party's absolute leadership over the military means ensuring that the military always remains absolutely loyal to the Party, and is completely and unconditionally placed under the Party's leadership. The Party's leadership over the military is a fundamental characteristic of Chinese socialism. It represents one of the greatest strengths of the Party and the nation, and underpins an effort to build a strong military.
The people's armed forces were created by the Party. Ever since its founding, it has been under the Party's leadership. The principle of the Party's leadership over the military originated from the Nanchang Uprising in 1927, developed during the Sanwan Reorganization of the same year, and was confirmed at the Gutian Meeting in 1929.
It has been enriched over the long years and developed into an institutional framework which ensures that the command and control of the armed forces resides with the CPC Central Committee and the CMC - the latter is under the direction of its chairperson. It is implemented through Party committees, political commissars, and specialized political staff in the military. It requires the presence of Party organizations in each military unit at or above the company level to ensure the Party's leadership, which is exercised by Party committees through a collective decision-making process.
At its 19th National Congress, the CPC reiterated the Party's absolute leadership over the military as fundamental for developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
坚持党对人民军队的绝对领导
坚持党对人民军队的绝对领导，就是全军对党要绝对忠诚，军队必须完全地、无条件地置于中国共产党的领导之下。坚持党对人民军队的绝对领导是中国特色社会主义的本质特征，是党和国家的重要政治优势，是人民军队的建军之本、强军之魂。
中国共产党缔造和领导的人民军队，从初创时期就确立了党指挥枪的原则。党对人民军队的绝对领导的根本原则和制度，发端于南昌起义、奠基于三湾改编、定型于古田会议，经过长期发展日臻完善，形成了包括坚持军队最高领导权和指挥权属于党中央、中央军委，中央军委实行主席负责制，实行党委制、政治委员制、政治机关制，实行党委统一的集体领导下的首长分工负责制，实行支部建在连上等在内的一整套制度体系。中国共产党第十九次全国代表大会把坚持党对人民军队的绝对领导确定为新时代坚持和发展中国特色社会主义的基本方略。