On national mobilization from the perspective of anti-epidemic

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, under the personal command and deployment of the CPC Central Committee and President Xi, the people of the whole country have been united in the same boat and launched a people’s war, a general war and a blocking war to prevent and control the epidemic. In this struggle, the provincial military region system moved at the command, took the initiative to take the lead and participated in the whole process, and deeply explored the characteristics and laws of national mobilization in actual combat, which provided a useful reference for doing a good job in wartime national mobilization.

Enhance the infiltration of ideological mobilization and lay a good ideological foundation for comprehensive mobilization

The people of the whole country know the general situation, take care of the overall situation, listen to greetings, obey the rules, advance and retreat together, and take responsibility together. This high degree of collective consciousness stems from deep and solid ideological mobilization. In the fight against the epidemic, all localities have made full use of TV broadcasts, newspapers and magazines, mobile phone networks, electronic screens, banners and newspapers and other channels to carry out high-intensity, multi-frequency and full-time launch, continuously convey the concern and care of the CPC Central Committee, timely push forward the anti-epidemic process and decision-making arrangements, and regularly publicize the epidemic prevention professional knowledge and related requirements, and through strong penetration, realize door-to-door and brain-to-heart. On the basis of doing a good job of general mobilization for the public, government agencies, industry associations, university enterprises, and street communities have implemented several waves of directional mobilization in their respective industries. The Hubei Military Region vigorously carried out the activities of "the chief officer leading the battle, the main battle in party member, the militia participating in the war and the civilian fighting", and the military and civilians realized the ideological transformation from peacetime to wartime in a short time. This fight against the epidemic has highlighted the importance of ideological mobilization and demonstrated our strong national mobilization ability. Compared with the anti-epidemic, people faced threats more directly in wartime, suffered more casualties, and the battlefield management was more difficult. It was difficult to quickly form the conscious collective will of the whole people only by relying on short-term mobilization.

From the perspective of anti-epidemic practice, to improve the efficiency of national mobilization in wartime, we must rely on national defense education in peacetime, prepare in advance and infiltrate for a long time, and lay a good ideological foundation for the implementation of national mobilization. It is necessary to broaden the scope, adhere to the "five in one" of party committees, governments, schools, the army and society, build a national defense education system covering the whole people, and extend the audience of national defense education to all social strata and groups; To increase the depth, in addition to popularizing general national defense knowledge, we should also strengthen urban crisis education and risk training, and guide the public to firmly establish the awareness of preparing for famine and disaster; It is necessary to increase the intensity, use various media to moderately increase the content and frequency of national defense education, and form a long-term effect in a subtle way.

Give full play to the organizational strength of the backbone team and make good use of key groups at critical moments.

In this anti-epidemic campaign, cadres, militia, volunteers and other key groups in party member took on heavy responsibilities and became the main force of mass prevention, mass control and joint prevention and control. For example, more than 44,500 party member employees in Wuhan party and government organs, enterprises and institutions have sunk to more than 3,000 communities; About 120,000 volunteers and more than 13,800 grid workers participated in community prevention and control; The Hubei Military Region has mobilized more than 839,000 militiamen, and about 31,000 militiamen are active in the front line every day during the peak period. These key groups assume various responsibilities such as organizers, propagandists, administrators, waiters, rescuers, deliverymen, etc., and play the role of "backbone" and "ballast stone". In the future, the mobilization of the whole people in wartime will be larger in scale and more complicated in organization, and it is even more necessary for these key groups to play a key role in going deep into the masses.

From the practice of anti-epidemic, the implementation of national mobilization needs to combine the different characteristics of different groups and focus on construction in peacetime. For party member cadres, the key point is to strengthen grassroots practice, encourage and guide party member cadres to be grounded, learn skills and grow talents among the masses. Once something can quickly sink into the front line and enter the role, they can better play a leading role in organizing and mobilizing the masses; For militia groups, the key point is to strengthen the professional training of support and emergency response, and truly have the ability to fight in wartime and respond in an emergency; For volunteer groups, the key point is to build a management system centered on management institutions and service platforms, enhance information sharing, financial support and incentive publicity, and enhance their enthusiasm and professional ability to participate in national mobilization.

Enhance the leading role of public opinion propaganda and constantly condense the positive energy of anti-epidemic

During the anti-epidemic period, the public opinion field was quite active. Especially in the early days of the epidemic, the flood of information was overwhelming, and it was difficult to distinguish between true and false. The hostile forces fanned the flames and made malicious speculation, and the people were highly concerned and highly sensitive. Only one Yangtze River Yunrong media platform increased its users by more than 196,000 in a few days, with an average daily page view of more than 27 million, which was six times that before the epidemic. Although governments at all levels, various media and authoritative experts have strengthened the dissemination of positive energy information, some negative information has also produced amplification and acceleration effects in a short time. For example, rumors such as "Wuhan is about to be fully taken over by the People’s Liberation Army" have a very bad influence. With the improvement of the epidemic situation, the information of positive energy has gradually gained the upper hand, and people’s psychology has also changed from tension and anxiety to calm and self-confidence. In wartime, the public opinion field will inevitably present similar characteristics and laws.

Judging from the practice of anti-epidemic, to win the people’s war in the future, the people’s will to fight will be the key target of the enemy, and we must firmly grasp the initiative of public opinion from the beginning. Make full use of various media channels, especially the authoritative platform, to release the dynamic information of war in time and accurately, so that the masses can understand the real situation at the first time; Collect people’s demands, respond to people’s concerns, identify the focus of people’s attention with empathy, and answer people’s questions in people’s language; It is necessary to decisively and effectively control, strengthen the application of information means such as big data and public opinion monitoring software, and block the spread channels of various rumors and false information.

Strengthen the control power at the grass-roots level and give full play to the role of the party organization as a fighting fortress

During the epidemic prevention and control period, closed management was implemented throughout the country, and every community, community and village team was an independent position and a battle fortress. The grass-roots community (village) was responsible for the living security, material procurement, medical treatment, inspection and quarantine management of all residents in this position. According to statistics, more than 9 million people stayed in Wuhan during the "city closure" period, distributed in more than 7,000 communities, more than 1,400 communities and more than 1,900 villages (brigades). Each community worker faces about 350 people, and the task is extremely arduous. Community is the last link between policy provisions and real individuals, and it is also the key link to improve the national governance system and enhance governance capacity. Effective community work can ensure the smooth implementation of government decrees and promote all the people to work and live in an orderly way in wartime. This anti-epidemic campaign highlights the importance of community building, which is the key to the mobilization of the whole people.

Judging from the practice of anti-epidemic, in the future people’s war, to mobilize the whole people to participate in the war, it is especially necessary to strengthen the party’s leadership over the overall work at the grassroots level and give full play to the role of grassroots party organizations as fighting fortresses; Strengthen personnel training, incorporate community team building into national and local talent development plans, and build a team of professional community workers with excellent quality; Increase investment in community platform construction, give urban and rural communities more human, financial and administrative rights with appropriate responsibilities, and build community mobilization publicity and education platforms, material support platforms, and information and communication platforms to ensure that communities provide public services to the end of society, but also have the conditions for legal control and strong control.

Strengthen the support of material supply, focus on ensuring people’s livelihood and promote stability.

Judging from the means of epidemic prevention and control, the fight against the epidemic is a science and technology war, a public opinion war and a logistics war. To implement closed management, we must first solve the basic needs of the people. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the whole country played a game of chess, coordinated as a whole, coordinated materials across provinces and regions, and took many measures to ensure supply, transportation capacity and people’s livelihood, which better solved the basic living problems of the people. Take Wuhan as an example, the vegetable stock can continuously supply about 8,000 tons per day, and the stock of basic daily necessities of rice, flour, oil and meat in the city can meet the consumer demand for more than 30 days. The Hubei Military Region coordinated six garrison units to deploy 260 people and 130 transport vehicles to set up a transport support team, transporting 15,019 tons of various materials, and investing them in the frontline and grassroots communities to raise more than 270 tons of materials to alleviate the urgent need for support. Through the joint efforts of the military and the land and comprehensive policies, it has provided peace of mind for the people to stay at home and created a solid rear for the victory of the anti-epidemic.

Judging from the practice of anti-epidemic, to do a good job in mobilizing the whole people in future wartime, we must focus on ensuring people’s livelihood, so that the fighting can last. We must do a good job in strategic material reserves in different fields and specialties, not only in high-tech equipment and information resources, but also in basic people’s livelihood, so as to lay a solid foundation for resource mobilization in wartime. According to the module of jurisdiction, we should conscientiously do a good job in the investigation and statistics of war potential, and make all kinds of potential data, regional distribution and specific positioning accurate to provide support for wartime resource mobilization; It is necessary to establish a wartime control and interest adjustment mechanism, crack down on speculation such as hoarding and raising prices, take incentive measures, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of mass organizations to produce and supply combat materials in short supply, and provide a steady stream of stamina for material supply.

Improve the mobilization of intelligent information and provide intellectual support for wartime mobilization

In this anti-epidemic campaign, big data, cloud computing and other information technologies have shown their talents. All localities rely on government affairs network and mobile APP to accurately convey epidemic prevention policies, and use the medical material demand information platform to organize hospitals to meet the needs of production enterprises and open electronic "health codes" to provide data support for sketching regional epidemic maps, tracing patient trajectories, and assisting the government in making precise policies. Epidemic prevention and control has expanded the application of Internet, big data and communication technology as never before, and also examined the problem of insufficient support for smart cities to fight the epidemic. For example, it is difficult for national defense mobilization data to support epidemic prevention and control, and it is difficult to realize real-time network collection of national defense mobilization potential data, and military and land information is not shared. In the future war, information is an important operational factor, and information mobilization is the main position of war mobilization. We must rely on the construction of smart cities and do a good job in information mobilization.

From the perspective of anti-epidemic practice, to do a good job in information mobilization, we must incorporate smart emergency and smart mobilization into the construction of smart cities, build national defense mobilization command centers at all levels vertically, and cross the command information network of the professional office and industry system of the National Movement Committee; It is necessary to build a big data system platform, improve the management system of data collection, storage and distribution of mobilization potential and demand, and rely on cloud computing technology to achieve dynamic docking and scientific deployment; It is necessary to rely on universities, scientific research institutes and high-tech enterprises to compile and build national defense mobilization professional teams and militia reserve detachments, train information mobilization professionals, and provide intellectual support for accomplishing mobilization tasks in wartime.

(The author is the commander of Hubei Military Region)