Combat Effectiveness as the Criterion
The Party and the people want our military to be able to fight and win wars, and this is the fundamental requirement for the military. Possession of this ability enables the military to fulfill its duties.
As Xi Jinping pointed out, the military is built to fight, and combat effectiveness is the sole and fundamental criterion of all military endeavors. Efforts to build combat capabilities should therefore be placed at the heart of all of the military's activities, viewed as the starting point as well as the end objective, and used as a yardstick for evaluation. It is essential in this regard to adapt the Chinese military to the information age, and align all activities with the goal of building a strong military with joint operations capabilities based on network-enabled information systems, able to operate in multiple domains and win informationized wars.
战斗力标准
能打仗、打胜仗是党和人民对军队的根本要求，是军队使命职责之所在、军队存在的根本价值之所在。习近平强调，军队是要打仗的，要牢固树立战斗力这个唯一的根本的标准。中国军队坚持把战斗力标准贯彻到全军各项建设和工作之中，坚持把提高战斗力作为全军各项建设的出发点和落脚点，坚持用是否有利于提高战斗力来衡量和检验各项工作，使各项建设和工作向实现建设信息化军队、打赢信息化战争的战略目标聚焦，向实施一体化联合作战的要求聚焦，向形成基于网络信息体系的联合作战能力、全域作战能力聚焦。