When is National Defense Education Day?

National Defense Education Day is the third Saturday in September every year.

National Defense Education Day is a theme activity day designated by the state to carry out large-scale national defense education for all. One of the forms of mass national defense education activities.

The establishment of national defense education day is not only aimed at weakening people's national defense concept in peacetime, but also the need to strengthen national defense education; It also provides a popular and socialized carrier for the whole people to participate in national defense education activities.

The purpose of national defense education for the whole people is to carry forward patriotism, popularize national defense education, make the whole people enhance their national defense concept, master necessary national defense knowledge and military skills, consciously fulfill their national defense obligations, care for, support and participate in national defense construction, defend national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security, and resist foreign aggression and subversive threats.

Social activities to impart ideas, knowledge and skills related to national defense to the whole people. It is a basic and regular basic education for all citizens, including promoting the improvement of national defense thinking, knowledge, skills and physical quality, as well as various social activities that are conducive to the formation and enhancement of national defense concepts and capabilities.

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Educational purpose

The purpose is to carry forward the spirit of patriotism and popularize national defense education, so that the whole people can enhance their national defense concept, master the necessary national defense knowledge and military skills, consciously fulfill their national defense obligations, and care for, support and participate in national defense construction.

First, it is necessary to strengthen national defense education in view of the weakening of people's national defense concept in peacetime; The second is to provide a popular and socialized carrier for the whole people to participate in national defense education activities. Establishing the opportunity for all citizens to receive national defense education every year according to law can better reflect the characteristics of China's national defense education.

Baidu Encyclopedia-National Defense Education Day