建设一支强大的人民军队是我党我军的不懈追求。新中国成立后，毛泽东在领导人民军队开展现代化建设过程中，对军队的现代化建设进行了全面而系统的论述，形成了毛泽东军队现代化建设思想。 毛泽东军队现代化建设思想有着深厚的理论根基、广阔的实践基础和鲜明的时代背景。毛泽东吸收了马克思恩格斯关于人民战争的基本思想，继承了列宁、斯大林关于无产阶级军事问题和军队建设的理论实践成果，汲取了中华优秀军事传统文化中关于军事战术和军队管理的合理成分，并在把握革命和战争年代人民军队建设的实践基础上，在立足新中国成立初期我国面临的内外安全形势和军队落后现状的现实基础上，因地制宜、因时而变地进行发展和升华，形成了既立足于马克思主义基本原理又符合我军实际的军队现代化建设思想体系。 毛泽东首先明确了军队现代化建设的首要原则和根本保证是要坚持党对军队的绝对领导，阐述了现代化的军队标准是编制组织、战术指挥、武器装备、人员素质、后勤工作五个维度的现代化，提出了军队现代化建设必须要坚持以我为主、自力更生两项基本原则。在毛泽东军队现代化建设思想的指导下，新中国成立初期全军开始了现代化建设的探索历程。通过确立党委集中统一领导下的首长分工负责制、加强军队党组织建设、发扬军队民主、加强干部教育、改进政治工作等具体途径进一步加强了党对军队的绝对领导，确保了军队现代化建设根本方向的正确。通过精简整编、发展海军空军和其他技术兵种、建设统一编制制度把我军引上了正规化、现代化的发展道路，初步完成了向诸军兵种合成部队的转变。通过进行大规模文化教育、开办军事院校、学习苏联理论技术、开展正规训练提高了军队的文化素质和战斗力。通过实现常规武器的国产化、尖端武器的自主研发初步构建了独立完整的国防工业体系。毛泽东的这些探索，缔造了一支战无不胜的新型人民军队，有力地捍卫了新生的人民政权，提升了新中国的国际地位，为我军现代化建设打下了深厚基础。 时至今日，毛泽东的军队现代化建设思想仍能为新时代开展强军建设提供丰富的理论滋养和现实启示。新时代开展强军建设必须坚持以习近平强军思想为根本指引，坚持人民军队建设的政治性、斗争性、人民性、全局性，构建一支现代化的一流人民军队，为实现中华民族伟大复兴提供强大的战略支撑。

Building a solid and strong military is the persistent pursuit of the Communist Party of China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mao-Zedong made a comprehensive and systematic theoretical exposition of the modernization of the military in leading the people's army to carry out modernization and construction, forming Mao Zedong's thought on the modernization of the military.Mao-Zedong's thought on the modernization of the military has deep theoretical foundations, broad practical basis, and a distinct historical background of the times. Mao-Zedong absorbed the basic thoughts of Marx and Engels on people’s war, inherited the theoretical and practical achievements of Lenin and Stalin regarding the military issues of the proletariat and military construction, drew from the reasonable elements of Chinese excellent military traditional culture. Mao-Zedong's thought on the modernization of the military also took the internal and external security situation and the backwardness of the army in the early years of the People’s Republic of China into consideration, which was both based on the basic principles of Marxism and in line with the actual situation of the military.Mao-Zedong first clarified that the first principle and fundamental guarantee for the modernization of the military is to uphold the absolute leadership of the Party over the military. The standards of a modernized army were the modernization of the organizational structure, tactical command, weaponry and equipment, personnel quality and logistical support. Mao-Zedong elucidated that the modernization of the military must adhere to the two basic principles of self-reliance and self-determination. Guided by this ideology, Mao-Zedong led the People's Liberation Army to begin the process of exploring modernization. The Party's absolute leadership over the military was further strengthened through the establishment of the system of division of responsibility among the chiefs under the centralized leadership of CPC Central Committee, the strengthening of the construction of the army's Party organization, the development of democracy in the army, the enhancement of the education of cadres, the improvement of political work, and other specific approaches, which ensured that the fundamental direction of the military modernization and construction was correct. Through conducting large-scale cultural education, establishing military academies, studying Soviet doctrine and technologies, and conducting regular training, the cultural quality and combat capability of the military were enhanced. Though achieving the indigenization of conventional weapons and the independent research and development of cutting-edge weapons, our complete and independent national defense technology industrial system was initially established. Mao-Zedong's explorations have created an invincible People's Liberation Army, which effectively safeguard the nascent regime and our sovereignty, enhanced the international status of the People's Republic of China, and laid a solid foundation for the modernization of our military.Today, Mao-Zedong's thought on the modernization of the military can still provide abundant theoretical insights and practical inspirations for us to carry out the construction of a strong army in the new era. On the journey ahead, we must fully implement the Party's philosophy on strengthening the military, uphold the principle of the Party’s absolute leadership over the armed forces, adhere to the political direction, the combative criterion and the people's nature for our work, so as to elevate our people's armed force to word-class standards and ensure greater strategic support for national rejuvenation.