The state carries out civil air defense education so as to enhance the concept of national defense and master the basic knowledge and skills of civil air defense.

Article 45 of the "Civil Air Defense Law" stipulates: "The state carries out civil air defense education to enable citizens to enhance their awareness of national defense and master the basic knowledge and skills of civil air defense."

The long-term peaceful environment makes it easy for people to develop peaceful paralysis thoughts. Some people have a weak concept of national defense and have some vague understandings and questions about the civil air defense work in the new era: a big war cannot be fought for a while, and civil air defense Construction can be carried out or not; the investment in civil air defense construction is large, and it will not be too late to build it after economic development develops; civil air defense only involves digging air raid shelters.

Civil air defense is the measures and actions taken by the government to mobilize and organize the people to guard against enemy air attacks and eliminate the consequences. It is referred to as civil air defense. It forms the territorial air defense system together with strategic air defense and field air defense. It is an important part of modern national defense, an important aspect of national economy and social development, an important part of modern city construction, and a society that benefits the country and the people. Public welfare.

Civil air defense education is an integral part of national defense education. The purpose is to improve the patriotism of the whole people, enhance the concept of national defense and civil air defense awareness, and enable the broad masses to master the basic knowledge and skills of civil air defense. The state carries out civil air defense education mainly through two aspects: first, popularizing civil air defense education among school students; second, carrying out civil air defense education among state agencies, social groups, enterprises and institutions, as well as residents and villagers.

In order to carry out civil air defense education well, the law stipulates that the national civil air defense department is responsible for organizing and formulating civil air defense education plans and stipulating educational content. Civil air defense education for school students shall be organized and implemented by the education authorities and civil air defense authorities at all levels. Civil air defense education for personnel of state agencies, social groups, enterprises and institutions shall be organized and implemented by their units; civil air defense education for other personnel shall be organized and implemented by urban and rural grassroots people's governments. Publishing, radio, film, television, culture and other relevant departments should assist in carrying out civil air defense education.

Some people think that through several recent local wars, some people have doubts about the construction of civil air defense, especially whether air defense basements can effectively cope with the destructive effects of air strikes with high-tech conventional weapons. For example: Some comrades believe that the US military's GBU-24 drills into the ground through 6-meter-thick rock formations, and the air defense basements we generally build cannot withstand bombings:

First, the practice of the Gulf War and the Kosovo War has proven , Civil defense engineering is an effective means of protection. Yugoslavia used a large number of civil defense projects to preserve 80% of its military strength and equipment, and suffered only more than 2,000 civilian casualties.

The second is the predictability of air strikes in modern warfare. High-tech air strike targets focus on important political, economic and military targets. Exposed objects located near important targets will be indirectly damaged by air shock waves, shrapnel, rubble, and combustion generated after the ammunition explodes. Personnel located near these targets can be evacuated and concealed in advance, and it is effective to make full use of the basement.

Third, from the cost-effectiveness perspective of high-tech weapons, precision-guided bombs and ground-penetrating guidance bombs are expensive, and even the richest countries in the world cannot use them everywhere.

Fourth, any powerful new weapon has duality. The advantages of conventional deep-earth-penetrating weapons are high accuracy, deep penetration into the ground, and high destructive power. Its shortcomings and weaknesses are that the terminal guidance system is easy to interfere with, the charge is small, and the ground impact conditions are high, otherwise it cannot function.

Fifth, military powers such as the United States and Russia attach great importance to civil defense construction, and they have never stopped building air defense basements. Civil defense projects in the United States and Russia can cover 70-80% of the country's population, and vehicles in Israel, Switzerland, and Sweden can cover 90-100 people in the country. These countries have also established complete air intelligence, warning transmission and command communication networks, formulated urban population evacuation plans, established professional civil defense teams, and established relatively complete civil defense systems for wartime air defense and peacetime disaster prevention.

Because local wars under modern technological conditions are prominently represented as a contest of comprehensive national power, higher requirements are put forward for the size of war potential and the speed of its transformation into war strength. Therefore, civil air defense assumes the responsibility of preserving war potential. The task is more arduous and the significance is more significant.