What is a Military Academy?

The Military Academy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is the highest institution in which the People's Liberation Army has trained and brought up senior commanders and senior staff members of the army. Directly under the leadership of the Central Military Commission. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to train middle and senior commanders suitable for the revolutionary, modern, and regular construction of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Chinese People's Liberation Army Military Academy

The Military Academy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is the highest institution in which the People's Liberation Army has trained and brought up senior commanders and senior staff members of the army. Directly under the leadership of the Central Military Commission. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to train middle and senior commanders suitable for the revolutionary, modern, and regular construction of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

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The establishment of the PLA Military Academy is

The Political Department was established at the end of 1951;

Artillery department, armored department and correspondence department were established in the second half of 1952;

The Battle Department was established in 1954;

In 1956, the Department of War History and the Department of Chemical Troops were successively established.

The military academy has become an army, a navy, and an air force major; it has both a military department and a political department; it has both a crash course and a completion; it has both face-to-face and correspondence education and is the highest comprehensive military school in the entire army. This is the heyday of military academy development. There are 12 trainees in the school, with a total of 3125 trainees. Twenty-three new graduate students in military science in the New China, such as advanced corps tactics, contract tactics, and military tactics, have also been trained. Chairman Mao Zedong once said funnyly: "Three thousand disciples of Confucius are military colleges." Most of these trainees are the main senior cadres of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and they are the pillars of the army. In order to adapt to the development of military science and the new situation of the regular modernization of the People's Liberation Army, a large number of senior and superior cadres need to be trained. The Party Committee of the Military Academy has repeatedly studied the improvement and development of the PLA's military education system, and made recommendations to the Central Military Commission.

A corner of the campus of the PLA Military Academy

On July 1, 1954, the Military Academy requested the Military Commission to start a campaign department. With the approval of the Party Central Committee, the campaign department recruited 52 senior generals or above for three years. This was the first time in the history of our military command academies. The oldest was 50 years old and the youngest was 40 years old. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of 5 generals, 22 lieutenant generals, and 25 major generals. In July 1957, he passed all the graduation examinations and obtained a diploma ^[9] .

On the morning of January 11, 1956, Mao Zedong arrived in Nanjing. At 3 pm, he was accompanied by Chen Yi (then Deputy Chairman of the Military Commission), Tan Zhenlin (then Deputy Secretary-General of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Second Office of the Secretariat), and Luo Ruiqing (then Director of the First Office of the State Council and Minister of Public Security). , Inspected the military academy. After Liu Bocheng and Chen Bojun reported the situation of the academy to Mao Zedong and others, Mao Zedong kindly met with the responsible comrades and teachers of the academy, department, department, and professors' union, and took a group photo with everyone. Mao Zedong told the comrades at the scene that Liu Bocheng, the party's central party, was a decent person who was a dean of the military academy. I hope that everyone under the leadership of Liu Bocheng will do a better job at the military academy and do a better job of training and training middle and senior cadres throughout the army. ^[10]

In 1956, the military academy developed into 12 departments, including combat, history, advanced crash, advanced correspondence, political crash, basics, intelligence, navy, air force, artillery, armored, and chemical defense, and war history, battle, political economy, A comprehensive military school with 50 professors' associations including cultural foreign languages. Not only has it trained a group of qualified military commanders for the entire army, it has also built a teaching and research team with modern military knowledge, compiled a set of textbooks that reflect the needs of army building and operations under modern conditions, and established a relatively complete teaching system. .

From 1957 to 1959, according to the decision of the Central Military Commission, based on the relationship between military academies, higher military academies, military academies, and naval, air force, artillery, and armored academies were formed. The Higher Military Academy is located in Beijing. Its mission is to train current military, political, and logistical cadres, senior staff members, and military theorists of the army, navy, and air force. Liu Bocheng was the first president and political committee member, Ye Jianying, Chen Bojun, and Li Jukui successively served as president, and Li Zhimin served as political committee member. The Military Academy is still located in Nanjing, and its mission is to train military commanders in the whole army and some divisions. Liao Hansheng, Liu Haotian, and Zhang Zhen successively served as presidents, and Zhong Qiguang and Wang Ping successively served as political members. Naval, Air Force, Artillery, and Armored Forces command academies mainly train regiment and battalion command cadres of their armed forces. At this point, the People's Liberation Army has formed a teaching system for high and intermediate command schools. Graduates are issued graduation certificates, transcripts and graduation badges:

Graduation certificate (5 photos)

Since October 1966, due to the destruction of the "Cultural Revolution" in the early years, the Higher Military Academy and Nanjing Military Academy stopped teaching activities.

In 1969, the Higher Military Academy, Nanjing Military Academy, Political Academy, and Logistics College were abolished and merged to form the People's Liberation Army Military and Political University ^[11] . The Military Academy has been in operation for 19 years, and has trained a large number of cadres for the People's Liberation Army, and has made an indelible contribution to the modernization and regularization of the New Chinese People's Army. ^[12]

On August 6, 1970, the Military and Political University was established in Beijing. Huang Yongsheng was also the president and Zhang Xiuchuan was a political commissar. Cadres above the main rotation training corps only provide political education and cancel military teaching.

At the end of the Cultural Revolution, in May 1972, the Central Military Commission appointed Xiao Ke as the president of the Military and Political University and Tang Liang as a political commissar. The military, political, and logistical teaching and research office of the University has resumed military and logistical teaching and has initially reformed political teaching.

In December 1977, in order to strengthen the training of middle and senior cadres in the military, the Central Military Commission decided to establish military colleges, political colleges, and logistics colleges based on the military, political, and logistics departments of the Military and Political University ^[11] . In July 1985, the military and political university was renamed the National Defense University of the People's Liberation Army.

In January 1978, the Military Academy was re-established. Xiao Ke served as the dean and the first political member, and Duan Suquan and Liu Xingyuan served as political members. It consists of training department, political department, academic affairs department, research department, and political, strategic, campaign, tactical, military, foreign military, science and technology teaching and research rooms and electrification teaching centers. Trainees are divided into training and rotation training. The training courses are divided into senior command courses, command courses, and military theory courses. The senior command class mainly recruits officers from the army, navy, and air forces to train campaign commanders; the command class recruits teachers and a small number of outstanding regiment commanders and staff members to train campaign tactical commanders and senior staff members; military theory classes recruit Military commanders and trainers to train military theoretical talents. Within one year, the rotation training class recruits commanders from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and above, focusing on strategic and operational topics.

The teaching work of the Military Academy is guided by Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, based on the strategic guidelines formulated by the Central Military Commission, and on the basis of summing up the experience of the PLA's combat and army building, drawing on the excellent results of the modernization of foreign troops and exploring modern Under the conditions of the people's war, the guiding law, the building of armed forces, and the organization and command of operations. Participants mainly study courses such as political theory, foreign policy, war strategy theory, battle science, advanced tactics, and modern science and technology. The principle of combining theory with practice and teaching with scientific research is implemented in teaching. The teaching method is research-oriented. The military teaching process is to study theories, study battle examples, sandboxes, maps, field operations, and headquarter command exercises. In the 7 years since the establishment of the military academy, it has trained a large number of high and intermediate commanders and staff with advanced military science and knowledge, and compiled a large amount of teaching materials on strategy, battle, tactics, politics and science and technology. Including battle and tactical textbooks for the entire army, it has made important contributions to the revolutionary, modern, and regular construction of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

In March 1985, the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission studied and decided to merge the three major colleges of the PLA Military Academy, the Political Academy, and the Logistics College into the highest military academythe People's Liberation Armyto train senior commanders, senior staff members, and senior military theoretical researchers National Defense University.

In December 1985, Deng Xiaoping signed an order for the establishment of the National Defense University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army ^{[3] [9] [13]} .

The Military Academy has trained a large number of high-level and intermediate commanders and staff with advanced military science knowledge, and has written a large number of textbooks on strategy, battle, tactics, politics, science and technology, including campaign and tactical textbooks for the entire army. It has made important contributions to the revolution, modernization and regularization of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.