The Unified Revolutionary Discipline of the People's Army——The Formation and Their Historical Significance of the Three Disciplines and Eight Notes
The Three Disciplines and Eight Notes are the disciplines formulated by the older generation of revo-lutionaries mainly represented by Mao Zedong during the period of the agrarian revolutionary war for the Red Army.Their formation has undergone a process of continuous standardization and perfection in revolutionary practice.As the embodiment of the nature and purpose of the people's army,the Three Disciplines and Eight Notes played an important role in the building of the People's army and the victory of the revolutionary struggle in the period of the new-democratic revolution and produced a broad and profound historical impact in the pe-riod of socialist revolution and construction.In the new period of reform and opening up and socialist modern-ization and the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics,the Three Disciplines and Eight Notes are still heirlooms in the building of the party and the army.
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