The state-run CCTV reported the 32nd session of the CCP CC Politburo on July 30 afternoon. It reported that the meeting insisted on the party’s absolute leadership over the People’s Army and the goal of achieving the 100-year army’s struggle. Presiding over the study, CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasised that achieving the goal of the army’s centennial struggle is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission in grasping the requirements of the era of a strong country and a strong army. It is a major task related to the overall situation of national security and development. It is a very important step in the new "three-step" of military modernisation. We must be firm in our determination and will, strengthen our sense of urgency, and immerse ourselves in hard work to ensure that the set goals are achieved on schedule. First, on behalf of the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, Xi Jinping extended holiday congratulations to all PLA commanders and soldiers, armed police officers and soldiers, military-civilian personnel, and militia reserve personnel. Comrade Xiao Tianliang, a professor at the National Defense University, gave an explanation on upholding the party's absolute leadership over the people's army and striving to achieve the goal of the one-hundred-year army and discussed his opinions and suggestions. Xi Jinping delivered a speech while presiding over the study. He pointed out that looking back on the party's hundred years of struggle, insisting on the party's command of guns and building its own people's army is a major conclusion drawn by the party in the struggle between blood and fire. Throughout the historical periods of revolution, construction, and reform, the party led the people’s army to keep in mind its original mission, always maintain its character and purpose, overcoming obstacles along the way, achieving one after other brilliant victories, and establishing immortal feats for the party and the people. By adhering to the party's absolute leadership over the people's army and advancing courageously in the direction guided by the party, the people's army will continue to grow and grow, and the party and the people's cause will have strong support. Xi Jinping emphasised that a strong country must have a strong military, and a strong military can ensure national security. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission have made a series of strategic plans and deployments for accelerating the modernisation of national defence and the military, leading the entire military to create a new situation in the cause of strengthening the military. In the historical process of building a modern socialist country in an all-around way and realizing the second centenary goal, we must put national defence and army building in a more important position, and accelerate the construction and consolidation of national defence and a strong army. Xi Jinping pointed out that the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the construction of our army has made a strategic plan for realising the goal of the army's 100-year struggle. It is necessary to strengthen planning authority and execution, do a good job of scientific overall planning, grasp key tasks, accelerate work progress, ensure work quality, and promote the accelerated generation of strategic capabilities. We must persist in leading construction by war, strengthen overall planning for war and construction, and make preparations for military struggles, so as to form a good situation in which war, construction, and preparations are advanced together. Xi Jinping emphasised that advancing the achievement of the goal of the army's one-hundred-year struggle is a profound change related to the overall situation of our army's construction. It is necessary to strengthen innovation and breakthroughs, change development concepts, innovate development models, enhance development momentum, and ensure high-quality development. It is necessary to promote high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, accelerate research on key core technologies, accelerate the development of strategic, cutting-edge, and disruptive technologies, and give play to the strategic supporting role of scientific and technological innovation in the construction of our military. It is necessary to adapt to the world's military development trends and the development needs of our military's strategic capabilities, and unremittingly push forward the reform of national defence and the military. We must grasp the focus of strategic management, advance the revolution in military management, and improve the operational efficiency of military systems and the use of national defence resources. It is necessary to strengthen strategic planning, innovate ideas and measures, promote the overall transformation and upgrading of military personnel's ability and quality, structural layout, development and management, and accelerate the growth of the talent team. Xi Jinping pointed out that it is the responsibility of our army to realize the goal of the army's centennial struggle, as well as the responsibility of the entire party and the country. The central and state agencies, local party committees and governments at all levels must strengthen the concept of national defence, implement the reform requirements, and perform their due diligence in the field of national defence construction. It is necessary to fully consider the needs of military deployment in the layout of economic and social development, rigidly implement national defence requirements in the construction of major infrastructure, and provide strong support in the construction of major projects for combat readiness training. The implementation of policies and other aspects actively solve problems.