两会临近，全国政协委员、国防大学军事文化学院教授李翔在采访中，聊起自己去年的调研课题：开发具有自主知识产权和我军特色的军事网络游戏。
BEIJING, Mar.4 -- China’s national lawmakers and political advisors are gathering for the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), commonly known as “two sessions”, in Beijing. Professor Li Xiang from the College of Military Culture of the PLA National Defense University (NDU), also a CPPCC member, talked about the research he conducted last year in an interview on developing online army games with independent intellectual property rights and featuring Chinese military characteristics.
谈起这一课题的由来，李翔讲起自己去年在北京南站候车时的一次见闻。军人候车室里，在他身旁候车的几名军校学员都玩一款军事网游，精美的游戏画面让长期从事绘画教学的他赞叹不已。得知这款网游是国外游戏公司研发的后，他轻叹了一口气。
Speaking of the inspiration of this research, Prof. Li recalled his personal experience when he was waiting for the train at the Beijing South Railway Station last year. In the waiting room reserved for military members, several cadets from military academies next to him played an online army game. As a teacher having long engaged in painting teaching, Prof. Li was greatly impressed by the exquisite pictures of the game. Learning that the game was developed by a foreign company, he sighed lamentedly.
教授向记者介绍，近年来西方国家在军事网络游戏中打着“民主、自由”等旗号兜售西方价值观，并向世界各国推送，在我境内传播的多达数百种，且呈逐年增长之势。“大多数军事网游由国外研发，游戏内容、价值理念、军事思想等都与我军有较大差异，长此以往可能会误导官兵。”李翔表示。
According to Prof. Li, in recent years, western countries have peddled their values enveloped in online army games under the banner of "democracy and freedom" and promoted them to other countries worldwide. The number of such games that gain popularity in China has exceeded hundreds and is increasing year by year. “Most online army games are developed by foreign countries. Their contents, values, and military thoughts are different from those of the Chinese military, which may mislead Chinese military members in the long run,” said he.
李翔建议，在国内游戏产业加速发展的形势下，加强资金和政策扶持，吸引国内头部游戏公司参与，推出具有我军特色的高品质军事游戏。
Prof. Li thereby suggested strengthening funding and policy support so as to attract domestic leading gaming companies to get involved in rolling out high-quality military games with Chinese military characteristics.
他还建议，在游戏研发过程中，应注重发掘我军丰富的历史文化资源，合理嵌入我军红色基因，突出强军兴军现实题材，展示我军良好形象，推动全民国防教育。
Besides, in the development of games, more attention should be paid to explore the rich historical and cultural resources of the Chinese military and highlight realistic scenario of building a stronger military, Prof. Li suggested.
在李翔看来，军事网络游戏是兼具意识形态传播、形象塑造、娱乐休闲、军事训练等多种功能于一体的军事文化载体。“在信息化大潮冲击下，网络游戏介入并推动军事训练模式变革，已成为一个不争的事实。”李翔介绍，外军早已广泛引入网络游戏辅助军事训练，甚至为部队“量身定做”游戏产品。
In Prof. Li’s view, online army games are a multi-functional military culture carrier integrating the elements of ideological dissemination, image shaping, entertainment and military training. “With the advent of informationization, it has indeed become an indisputable fact that online games will get involved in and promote the transformation of military training patterns.” Foreign militaries have already introduced online games to assist military training and even developed “tailor-made” products, as told by Prof. Li.
在前往陆军装甲兵学院、空军某部等多家单位实地调研后，李翔看到一些部队在逐步探索把军事网络游戏作为战术训练的辅助方式，军事网游的发展应用逐渐活跃起来。
After investigations in the Army Academy of Armored Forces, a unit of the PLA Air Force and some other military units, Prof. Li found that some troops have been verifying the effectiveness of applying online army games to facilitate tactical training as an auxiliary method, and the development and application of the games are gaining momentum.
“既要有步骤、有计划地推进军事网络游戏开发的自主化、正规化建设，更要加大探索如何科学合理、趋利避害地运用军事网游辅助军事训练。”临近两会，李翔正在积极修改完善相关调研成果，准备将提案带到大会上。
“It is necessary to advance the independent development of online military games in a step-by-step and planned manner. And what is even more important is to intensify the exploration on how to apply these games to assist military training in a scientific and reasonable manner,” said Prof. Li. He is busy revising and improving relevant research results to submit the proposal to the upcoming "two sessions".
