Source record CMC Political Work Department · 2026-07-26

Those Who Lead Troops Should Genuinely Care for Their Soldiers, Deepening Mutual Understanding Through Measured Flexibility and a Balance of Leniency and Strictness

带兵人应当真心爱兵，在张弛有度、宽严相济中增进彼此理解

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Source-stated publication date	2026-07-26
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刚任连队指导员时，如何快速树立威信、管好连队，成为摆在我面前的现实课题。因为信奉“严才是硬道理”，我的标准越来越高、要求越来越严。眼见战士们被我管得“服服帖帖”，我自认为找到了带兵之道，直到后来的一次经历，让我意识到自己的问题。某天，中士小张被外派集训。可其父亲突发疾病，急需他回家照顾。让我不解的是，这件事情我是偶然听到小张和连队文书电话沟通才得知的，并非他主动报告。我曾是小张的排长，他以前见我总是笑眯眯的，我俩过去无话不谈，现在他却有意避开我，前后变化之大，让我始料未及。在我再三询问下，小张说出了心里话：“指导员，上次我口号没喊响，您当着全连的面批评了我，噎得我心凉了半截。再加上您和我在一起时总是面色凝重，我以为您对我有很大意见，所以遇到困难也不敢随便开口……”经过促膝长谈，我们消除了隔阂。为了解决小张的急难事，我立刻向上级报告，第二天他就获准回家带父亲看病。小张家庭条件不好，连队按照规定为其申请“爱心基金”，并叮嘱他尽量在军队医院就医。这件事过后，我认真反思，觉得自己对“严管厚爱”的理解存在误区。以严立威，更要以情增信。带兵人应当真心爱兵，真正走进官兵内心，在张弛有度、宽严相济中增进彼此理解、支持。于是，我不再一味以“冷色调”抓管理，而是主动和大家打成一片，连队氛围因此和谐了许多。从严抓管，但不可随意加码。目前军营以95后、00后官兵为主，青年官兵思维活跃、观念多元，带兵人倘若一味板起面孔，这也不行，那也不准，容易引发其逆反心理。对官兵严格要求、严格管理本身没有错，但如果对制度规定机械执行，不结合官兵实际，出了一点小问题就上纲上线，表面看“有声势”，实则埋下了“压而不服”的隐患。管在“理”上，严在“格”内，爱在心中。从严不是层层加码，必须严在法内、严之有据。离开这个前提，就会出现以言代法、以权代法的现象。带兵人只有树立法治思维，严格按照法规制度开展工作，才能找到管理部队的科学尺度，推动部队建设不断取得新成效。既有“硬度”，也有“温度”。“爱设于先，威设于后”，是古代军事家提出的治军原则，意思是先关爱士兵，使其亲近，然后立威明罚，这样才能带出一支过硬的部队。厚爱是带兵的关键，但它不是纪律松绑、作风松懈，而是工作上激励、生活上关怀。带兵人要真心关爱官兵，以平等的态度尊重信任官兵，多站在他们的角度想问题，多理解他们的难处和苦处，拿出满腔热情设身处地帮他们解决烦心事、揪心事。要做好思想教育、心理疏导等工作，把严格管理与有效沟通、凝聚共识结合起来，在实践中注重体现人文关怀与管理智慧，才能使部队上下充盈融融暖气、虎虎生气。

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A company political instructor writing in PLA official media recounts how rigidly applying 严管厚爱 (strict management with deep care) without emotional attentiveness caused a sergeant to conceal a family emergency rather than report it, and describes the corrective shift toward what the article calls 人文关怀 (humanistic care) and rule-of-law discipline. This is standard political work content aimed at junior officers; its value is as a record of how the institution currently frames the tension between authority and soldier welfare for company-grade cadres, particularly in units now composed predominantly of post-1995 and post-2000 conscripts. The repeated warnings against 压而不服 (suppression without genuine compliance) and substituting personal authority for law document an institutional concern that overly rigid grassroots leadership is generating passive resistance rather than cohesion.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "带兵人应当真心爱兵，在张弛有度、宽严相济中增进彼此理解." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-07-26. http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16475825.html.

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