Five years of hard work and extraordinary achievements. The "14th Five Year Plan" for the construction of our military is the starting plan for the new "three-step" modernization of national defense and the military. It is of great significance to achieve the goal of building the military for a century on schedule and comprehensively promote the building of a strong country and the rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese path to modernization. Since the implementation of the plan, the entire military has resolutely implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, followed the spirit of President Xi Jinping's important speech, strengthened confidence, faced challenges, implemented high-quality development requirements, and achieved a series of significant results. New important progress has been made in the modernization of national defense and the military. At present, there are less than two years left to achieve the centenary goal of building the military. It is the period of vigorous struggle and the sprint period of refueling and pressure. The officers and soldiers of the whole army have taken on the mission of handing over their work at the designated time, focusing on the key points of the battle and implementing the work. Each military camp presents a scene of real and practical work, tense and fast work, and a progressive attitude. Starting from today, the People's Liberation Army Daily will launch a column titled "Extraordinary Achievements in National Defense and Military Modernization Construction during the Five Year Plan Period", focusing on reporting on the landmark and major achievements in national defense and military construction during the 14th Five Year Plan period. Please stay tuned. According to Kang Zizhan, a reporter from the People's Liberation Army Daily, at a certain air force station, army fighter jets have just landed, while navy fighter jets continue to take off. Multiple types of land, sea, and air fighter jets are scheduled, taken off, and supported on the same site, and joint training is carried out on mutual conditions as a norm; In the command center of a certain naval training formation, key personnel from multiple branches of the military conducted joint research and training, jointly participating in mission planning, situational analysis, and battlefield duty... During the golden autumn observation training, looking at our military's joint training ground, a picture of a strong military with joint training for war planning, training for war promotion, and strong training for victory is unfolding in multiple domains and dimensions. Behind these new scenes are the solid steps taken by our military since the implementation of the 14th Five Year Plan for military construction, adhering to the principle of unity, developing our military's characteristic joint training system, accelerating the improvement of integrated joint combat capabilities, and promoting the level of joint training to a higher level. How to fight, how to train soldiers, what is needed for fighting, what troops should train. On November 7, 2020, the "Outline of Joint Operations of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (Trial)" was implemented throughout the entire army, and the ideas and measures of joint victory over war gradually became effective, giving birth to a new pattern of joint training in the new era of our military. ——Integrating training and preparation to unleash new efficiency. In April of this year, the Eastern Theater Command organized the "Strait Thunder-2025A" exercise in the central and southern waters of the Taiwan Strait, focusing on implementing verification and identification, warning and expulsion, interception and detention, and other subjects to test the military's regional control, joint blockade, and precision strike capabilities. From "Joint Sword" to "Strait Thunder", drill preparation is combat preparation, and drill state is combat state. Joint military exercises are no longer just training activities, but have become a preparation process for advancing preparedness and enhancing capabilities. Joint training, as a powerful "source" and "main stream", is leading and driving the deepening and vigorous development of military struggle preparations, fully unleashing the role and effectiveness of using training to carry war and training to promote preparation. ——The system of military training presents a new atmosphere. In the "East", "South", "West", "North", and "Central" regions, joint live fire exercises organized by various war zones cover all seasons, all weather, and all regions, including "Crossing", "Mobile", "Red Sword", "Sky Sword", and "Joint Logistics Mission". The series of systematic exercises organized by various military branches cover all seasons, all weather, and all regions. The Central Military Commission, theater of war, and military branches are responsible for division of labor, with integrated design and systematic organization. They are decomposed step by step from top to bottom and integrated step by step from bottom to top, driving the operation and inspection of the joint operation system. Joint exercises and systematic training have presented a new atmosphere, and the training and preparation mode has undergone new changes. Our military's joint training has entered a new stage of comprehensive transformation and overall improvement. ——Sino foreign joint training showcases new changes. This summer, the China Russia "Maritime Joint-2025" joint exercise was held in the sea and air near Vladivostok, Russia. After the exercise, the naval vessels of China and Russia participating in the exercise formed a joint formation and organized a joint sea patrol in a certain sea area of the Western Pacific. They completed exercises such as joint search and rescue, joint supply, joint escort, and joint air defense in a rotating or joint command manner. This is the fifth time that the Chinese and Russian armies have launched a joint sea patrol. In recent years, there have been exciting developments in Sino foreign joint training fields such as "maritime unity," "common destiny," and "peace missions," and new changes in the joint training of the Chinese military are being presented to the world. ——Joint training to develop new forces. In a series of joint exercises, underwater unmanned "fish schools", land-based unmanned "wolf packs", and airborne unmanned "bee colonies" emerged one after another. New domain and new quality forces such as land aviation, special operations, reactance, unmanned, network, and aerospace were deeply integrated into the joint combat system, deeply entered the joint exercise process, finely constructed real combat scenarios, and accurately experimented with modern warfare organization and management. With the continuous improvement of the level of joint training, the focus of joint training continues to sink, and the grassroots frontline also presents many pleasing new appearances. Reviewing the annual military training plan of a certain brigade of the 78th Group Army, the high-frequency and high-quality joint training content is eye-catching, with more than 20 joint courses running through the entire annual training process; Mixed formation of air and ground for joint operations, with at least one joint training organized every two weeks and monthly adversarial training. A certain naval aviation unit, in conjunction with research projects, actively formed training pairs with a certain air force unit stationed on the same site, exploring ways to move away from independent joint training methods, jointly researching tactics such as naval fighter jet land strike and air force fighter jet anti-ship strike, and creating a "joint training field". Across the north and south of the Yangtze River, the surging iron currents sharpen the elite soldiers; Deep blue ocean, stepping on the waves to forge a sharp sword; Above the sky, the Peng flies thousands of miles towards the azure sky; In the depths of the dense forest, the east wind howls for nine days; The domination of the sky net, the victory of the invisible over the tangible... In the new era and new journey, the path of our military's joint operations will be even broader, the ability to defend national strategic development interests will be stronger, the confidence to win future information warfare will be more firm, and the goal of building a world-class military will be fully achieved. (New Society)