毛泽东主席是中华人民共和国的主要缔造者，新中国成立之后，他担任了中国人民革命军事委员会主席、中共中央军事委员会主席，直接领导了国防和军队建设。他总结中国一个多世纪以来国破民穷，有国无防，饱受帝国主义列强侵略奴役而沦入半殖民地半封建社会的历史教训，提出：“ Chairman Mao Zedong was the main founder of the People’s Republic of China. After the founding of New China, he assumed the chairmanship of the Chinese People’s Revolutionary Military Commission and the chairman of the Central Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee, directly leading the national defense and army building. He summed up the historical lesson that China has broken through poverty for more than a century, that there is no defense in any country, that it is subjected to aggression and enslavement by the imperialist powers and has been reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. He said: