——维护社会和谐稳定。中国武装力量忠实践行全心全意为人民服务的宗旨，积极参加和支援国家经济社会建设，依法维护国家安全和社会稳定。发挥人才、装备、技术、基础设施等方面的有利条件，为地方基础设施和重点工程建设、扶贫帮困和改善民生、生态环境建设贡献力量。科学组织非战争军事行动准备，针对面临的非传统安全威胁搞好战略预置，加强应急专业力量建设，提高遂行反恐维稳、应急救援、安全警戒任务的能力。坚决完成抢险救灾等急难险重任务，保护人民群众生命财产安全。把维护社会大局稳定作为重要任务，坚决打击敌对势力颠覆破坏活动，打击各种暴力恐怖活动。发扬拥政爱民光荣传统，严格遵守国家政策法规，巩固军政军民团结。

    ——推进国防和军队现代化。着眼2020年基本实现机械化并使信息化建设取得重大进展的目标，坚持以机械化为基础，以信息化为主导，广泛运用信息技术成果，推进机械化信息化复合发展和有机融合。拓展和深化军事斗争准备，牵引和带动现代化建设整体发展。深化信息化条件下联合作战理论研究，推进高新技术武器装备建设，发展新型作战力量，着力构建信息化条件下联合作战体系。深入推进机械化条件下军事训练向信息化条件下军事训练转变，加紧实施人才战略工程，加大全面建设现代后勤力度，提高以打赢信息化条件下局部战争能力为核心的完成多样化军事任务能力，全面履行新世纪新阶段军队历史使命。统筹经济建设和国防建设，实行军民融合式发展，建立完善军民结合、寓军于民的武器装备科研生产体系、军队人才培养体系和军队保障体系。积极稳妥地深化国防和军队改革，加强战略筹划和管理，努力推进国防和军队建设科学发展。

-- Maintaining social harmony and stability. The Chinese armed forces loyally follow the tenet of serving the people wholeheartedly, actively participate in and support national economic and social development, and safeguard national security and social stability in accordance with the law. Exercising to the full their advantageous conditions in human resources, equipment, technology and infrastructure, the armed forces contribute to the building of civilian infrastructure and other engineering construction projects, to poverty-alleviation initiatives, to improvements in people's livelihood, and to ecological and environmental conservation. They organize preparations for military operations other than war (MOOTW) in a scientific way, work out pre-designed strategic programs against non-traditional security threats, reinforce the building of specialized forces for emergency response, and enhance capabilities in counter-terrorism and stability maintenance, emergency rescue, and the protection of security. They resolutely undertake urgent, difficult, dangerous, and arduous tasks of emergency rescue and disaster relief, thereby securing lives and property of the people. Taking the maintenance of overall social stability as a critical task, the armed forces resolutely subdue all subversive and sabotage activities by hostile forces, as well as violent and terrorist activities. The Chinese armed forces carry on the glorious tradition of supporting the government and cherishing the people, strictly abide by state policies, laws and regulations and consolidate the unity between the military and the government and between the military and the people.

-- Accelerating the modernization of national defense and the armed forces. Bearing in mind the primary goal of accomplishing mechanization and attaining major progress in informationization by 2020, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perseveres with mechanization as the foundation and informationization as the driving force, making extensive use of its achievements in information technology, and stepping up the composite and integrated development of mechanization and informationization. The PLA has expanded and made profound preparations for military struggle, which serve as both pull and impetus to the overall development of modernization. It intensifies theoretical studies on joint operations under conditions of informationization, advances the development of high-tech weaponry and equipment, develops new types of combat forces, strives to establish joint operation systems in conditions of informationization, accelerates the transition from military training under conditions of mechanization to military training in conditions of informationization, presses ahead with implementation of the strategic project for talented people, invests greater efforts in building a modern logistics capability, and enhances its capabilities in accomplishing diversified military tasks in order to win local wars under the conditions of informationization, so as to accomplish its historical missions at the new stage in the new century. The state takes economic development and national defense building into simultaneous consideration, adopts a mode of integrated civilian-military development. It endeavors to establish and improve systems of weaponry and equipment research and manufacturing, military personnel training, and logistical support, that integrate military with civilian purposes and combine military efforts with civilian support. China vigorously and steadily advances reform of national defense and the armed forces, strengthens strategic planning and management, and endeavors to promote the scientific development of the national defense and armed forces.