邓小平同志在接见出席军委扩大会议的同志时提出,我们军队要始终不渝地保持人民军队的性质,忠于党、忠于国家、忠于社会主义、忠于人民。军委江泽民主席、杨尚昆第一副主席强调要加强军队的政治建设。认真贯彻落实这些指示,是摆在我们面前的一项具有重大战略意义的任务。去年春夏之交的政治风波,给我们留下了多方面的经验教训,其中,重要的一条就是要保证我军在政治上永远合格,这是国际国内新的情况和复杂的政治气候提出的必然要求,是从平息反革命暴乱斗争中得 In his interview with comrades attending the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission, Comrade Deng Xiaoping pointed out: Our army should unswervingly uphold the nature of the people’s army, be loyal to the party, be loyal to the country, be loyal to socialism and be loyal to the people. Chairman Jiang Zemin and Yang Shangkun, the first vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, stressed the need to strengthen the military’s political construction. To seriously implement these directives is a task of major strategic significance before us. The political turmoil at the turn of the past spring and summer left many lessons for us. The important one is to ensure that our army will always be politically qualified. This is a new situation both at home and abroad as well as a complicated political climate The inevitable requirement is that we must win the battle of quelling the counterrevolutionary riots