In October 2025, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to accelerate the construction of advanced combat capabilities. This major decision and deployment has outlined a new vision for building a strong military through hard work. In the new era and new journey, we must take the construction of advanced combat capabilities as a strategic project to build a world-class military, win future wars, and support the rejuvenation of a strong country. Forging the powerful ability to win future wars and accelerating the construction of advanced combat capabilities is the central task of China's current national defense and military modernization construction, and it is also a strategic project that involves the overall situation and is of great significance for the long term. The People's Army will always be a combat team, and its vitality lies in its combat effectiveness, which is the core capability of the People's Army. In the revolutionary war era, the people's army relied on its strong combat effectiveness to win battles. Under the conditions of the new era, in order to build a world-class military, the people's army must take advanced combat effectiveness as the core support and establish combat effectiveness as the only fundamental standard. Advanced combat capability is a distinctive symbol of a world-class military. The construction of the military depends first on the level of combat capability. In the era of rapid technological advancement and accelerated evolution of warfare forms, only by grasping the characteristics, laws, and winning mechanisms of modern warfare can we find the direction for the development of military combat effectiveness. To build advanced combat capabilities, it is necessary to forge strong combat capabilities that can meet future challenges and win future wars through continuous technological innovation, institutional reform, and theoretical innovation. Currently, the new military revolution is advancing rapidly worldwide, with high-tech represented by artificial intelligence developing rapidly, greatly changing the face and style of warfare. To gain the initiative in military competition strategy and win future wars, the People's Liberation Army must closely monitor changes in technology, warfare, and opponents, conduct in-depth research on military affairs, warfare, and warfare, and continuously improve its ability to understand, plan, and win wars. We must firmly grasp the key to building a strong military by being able to fight and win battles, coordinate various constructions according to their contribution rate to combat effectiveness, accelerate the construction of advanced combat capabilities, and accumulate sufficient strength and confidence to win future wars. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China further made strategic deployments such as "enhancing the overall efficiency of the national innovation system" and "optimizing the layout of major productive forces", all of which rely on the strong support of new quality productive forces. Advanced combat capability is the military application of new quality productivity. Only by fully developing new quality productivity can we have a strong economic foundation and powerful technological strength, and forge a powerful advanced combat capability. Efforts should be made to accelerate the construction of advanced combat capabilities in order to meet the systematic requirements of the development of new quality productivity, keep up with the pace of new quality productivity development, and provide strong security guarantees for the development of new quality productivity, truly integrating into the system, supporting system, and development system. The essence of advanced combat power lies not in how many advanced weapons one possesses, but in an organic whole and complex system that encompasses multiple dimensions such as technology, theory, organization, and talent. Only by understanding these inherent characteristics can we better accelerate the construction of advanced combat capabilities. Winning soldiers win first and then seek battle. ”Military theory is a scientific guide for the construction and application of combat effectiveness, and scientific military theory is the "thought engine" of advanced combat effectiveness. From the perspective of combat effectiveness, scientific military theory reveals the reasons, processes, and results of the generation and release of combat effectiveness, which is not only an important component of combat effectiveness, but also the underlying logic of combat effectiveness construction. In order to achieve more advanced combat capabilities in future wars, military theory cannot be interpreted as "Zhuge Liang" after the fact. It is necessary to enhance cognitive and innovative abilities, proactively promote the development of weapons and equipment, reform the organization and training of troops, and provide the optimal solution to accelerate the generation and release of advanced combat capabilities and defeat strong opponents. Technology is the core combat power, and technological innovation is the core engine for generating combat power. The core of advanced combat capability is advanced technological driving force. From a historical perspective, even the most primitive and rudimentary sticks and stone weapons have the beating and cutting techniques invented by primitive humans. Today, the party with advanced information technology can better achieve interconnectivity among various elements of the battlefield, ensuring information superiority and dominance; Being superior in the mastery and application of artificial intelligence, it often achieves better command decision-making, situational awareness, unmanned combat intelligence, possesses "asymmetric" strike capabilities, and can even carry out decisive strikes outside enemy defense zones. Human beings are the decisive factor in the outcome of war, as well as the most active and fundamental factor in combat effectiveness, and the foundation for building advanced combat capabilities. It is precisely because of the fundamental role of people, especially talents, in the construction of advanced combat capabilities that talent construction has been regarded as the key to victory throughout history. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a fierce competition among various warlords and states to recruit talented individuals. Political and military strategists such as Guan Zhong, Sun Wu, Wu Qi, and Wei Liao were involved in various activities; Genghis Khan's Mongol army was invincible, but only the craftsmen who represented the advanced productive forces and combat effectiveness of the time were left behind to be treated kindly and reused. Only by cultivating a large number of joint operation command talents, new combat force talents, and high-level technological innovation talents who understand high technology, are proficient in modern warfare, and are good at command and management, can we build advanced combat capabilities to win against strong opponents. In today's world, everything is interconnected, and the generation and release of combat power has already surpassed the individual and few combat power elements to emerge as a concentrated force system construction and innovation. Advanced combat power is more manifested as system integration power. This system integrates elements of combat power such as personnel, weapons and equipment, and military organizational forms, as well as combat operations such as reconnaissance, command, defense, confrontation, attack, and support. It also includes the integration of military force systems such as land, sea, air, space, electricity, and network, as well as the integration of different combat fields such as physical domain, information domain, and cognitive domain. The fusion of these different directions, types, and fields aggregates and multiplies advanced combat capabilities. It can be said that in the era of information and intelligence, whoever has a wide scope of integration will mobilize more resources, whoever has a faster integration speed will have stronger efficiency, and whoever has smooth integration steps and links will take the initiative. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made a decision and deployment to promote the modernization of military governance. The innovation lies in incorporating military governance into the scope of national defense and military modernization. From then on, the basic tasks of national defense and military modernization have evolved from modernization in four aspects: military theory, military organizational form, military personnel, and weapons and equipment, to modernization in five aspects including military governance. Military governance, with its important role in winning wars, has become an important pole in the construction of advanced combat capabilities. In future wars, with the increasing complexity of military systems, the mechanisms and paths for generating and releasing combat power are also more complex. Through scientific and efficient military governance, resources can be effectively allocated, and the quality and efficiency of national defense and military development can be rapidly improved. The various parts of combat power are clenched into fists, forming a powerful blade. Building a lean, united, versatile, and flexible advanced combat capability is a grand systematic project that must adhere to the absolute leadership of the Party over the military. With a sense of urgency and crisis that cannot be delayed, efforts must be made to achieve breakthroughs in key technologies, integration in system construction, innovation in scientific governance, and leap forward in military civilian integration and coordination. Efforts must be made to build a lean, united, versatile, and flexible advanced combat capability, providing strong force guarantees for the rejuvenation of a strong country. In today's era, the core combat capability of technology has become more prominent. Adhering to the advanced combat capability of technology is essentially to play the role of an engine driven by technological innovation and promote the leapfrog development of combat capability. Implement major national defense development projects, seize opportunities for the vigorous development of new quality productive forces, improve mechanisms for agile response and rapid transformation of advanced technologies, accelerate innovation in national defense science and technology and the transformation of advanced technologies, and accelerate the development of advanced weapons and equipment. Seize the high ground of intelligence, fully embed AI into command decision-making, situational awareness, unmanned combat, and logistics support, develop and optimize military algorithms, gain advantages in electronic warfare and network attack and defense, and improve combat efficiency. Breaking through the bottleneck of cutting-edge technology, tackling bottleneck technologies such as high-end chips, high-end industrial software, and key materials, ensuring the security and resilience of the national defense supply chain; Proactively deploying quantum technology, hypersonic, directed energy weapons, biological cross cutting and other fields to seize the strategic high ground of military competition. The combat system is a multiplier of combat power generation. Adhering to advanced combat power from the combat system is essentially to leverage the system's combat aggregation effect to stimulate combat power. Implementing the modernization project of military theory provides scientific support for exploring new models of combat effectiveness construction and new paths to winning modern wars. Coordinate the construction and application of the network information system, strengthen the development and utilization of data resources, build an intelligent military system, establish an integrated command and control network that connects various branches of the military and combat levels, and achieve seamless sharing and integration of multidimensional battlefield spatial information such as land, sea, air, space, electricity, and network. Optimize the formation of combat forces, accelerate the development of intelligent unmanned systems, network power and other new quality combat forces, design and construct a new type of combat formation that adapts to the release of combat power, such as wide area deployment and mixed old and new equipment. Deepen strategic and operational planning, accelerate the construction of strategic capabilities in emerging fields, strengthen strategic deterrence, solidly promote practical military training, strengthen the integration of combat capability systems, and enhance the pertinence, initiative, and shaping power of military struggle. Today, the importance and urgency of military governance have become a consensus among the entire army. To modernize military governance and enhance combat effectiveness, the essence is to liberate and develop combat effectiveness through adjustment and optimization, ensuring overall efficiency improvement. Now, the basic elements of our military's combat effectiveness are advancing rapidly. Efficiently aggregating these elements together to form a cohesive force is inseparable from modern military governance. Continuously deepen national defense and military reform, improve the leadership and management system and mechanism of the people's army, and continue to build a modern organizational form; Strengthen and improve strategic management, deepen the overall planning of combat readiness, and follow the principle of demand driven planning and planning led resource allocation to enhance the operational efficiency of military systems and the utilization efficiency of national defense resources; Strengthen the consultation and evaluation of major decisions, as well as the supervision of major projects such as military budgets and military procurement, and fully implement the policy of building the military through diligence and thrift. Deepen the construction of the rule of law, strengthen the supply and supervision of regulatory systems, and improve the military legal system with Chinese characteristics. Advanced combat capability relies on the development of new quality productive forces. Adhering to consolidating and improving the integrated national strategic system and capabilities requires advanced combat capability. Essentially, it is to strengthen the coordinated linkage between the military and civilians, based on the overall strength of the country and the use of national power to improve the quality and efficiency of combat capability construction. Deepen cross military and civilian reforms, build an advanced national defense science and technology industrial system, strengthen the reporting of military needs for national defense construction and military civilian integration, establish a high-quality national innovation system, efficiently introduce the most active civilian innovation resources into the national defense field, promote the efficient integration and two-way driving of new quality productivity and new quality combat effectiveness; Optimize the policy and system of military human resources, improve the level of education and nurturing in military academies, integrate with the national education system, and create a high-quality and specialized new military talent formation; Accelerate the construction of modern logistics and transform national strength into strong support capabilities. Accelerate the construction of national defense mobilization capacity, promote the joint efforts of the Party, government, military, police, and the people to strengthen border defense, deepen national defense education for all, and consolidate military civilian unity. (New Society)