The latest amended law on arrangement of retired soldiers

Updated: 2011-12-08 20:27

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A conscript retired from active service shall be given retirement pay according to the provisions of the state, accepted by the local people's government at the county level or above of the place of resettlement and may be given a financial subsidy according to the actual local situation.

A conscript retired from active service shall be given retirement pay according to the provisions of the state, accepted by the local people's government at the county level or above of the place of resettlement and may be given a financial subsidy according to the actual local situation.

After a conscript is retired from active service, the local people's government at the county level or above of the place of resettlement shall arrange him or her to participate in vocational education or skills training free of charge, and issue a corresponding diploma or professional qualification certificate and recommend him or her for a job if he or she has passed the examination or assessment. Conscripts retired from active service shall enjoy the support and preferential policies of the state for employment.

A conscript retired from active service may enter a secondary vocational school without examination. A conscript applying for being enrolled in a regular institution of higher learning or accepting adult education shall be awarded extra points and benefit from other preferential policies. A conscript admitted to a regular institution of higher learning or a secondary vocational school within the time limit prescribed by the state shall benefit from a grant issued by the state.

Where a conscript retired from active service applies for signing up for acivil servant examination or for a post with a public institution, his or her experience in active service with the army unit shall be deemed as grassroots work experience and he or she shall be recruited or employed in priority under the same conditions.

Where a conscript, who is awarded a second-grade merit or higher in peacetime or is awarded a third-grade merit or higher in wartime during their period of active service, or is a child of a martyr or is disabled due to military operations and is assessed with a disability grade of five to eight, and is retired from active service, the local people's government at the county level or above of the place of resettlement shall arrange a job for him or her. The local people's government shall grant living allowances to the conscript according to the relevant provisions of the state while he or she is waiting for the arrangement of job. If the conscript voluntarily chooses to seek employment on his or her own, it shall be handled according to the provisions in paragraph 1 through paragraph 4.

The state shall, according to the economic and social development level, adjust the standards for retirement pay. The funds needed for the resettlement of soldiers retired from active service shall be paid jointly by the Central Government and the local people's governments at all levels.