Better programs for veterans planned

China will create new policies, enhance institutional reforms and provide more educational opportunities and services to veterans, officials said on Wednesday.

Last year, China helped find jobs for nearly 50,000 former officers and ex-soldiers, said Bao Fengyu, head of the job placement office at the Ministry of Veterans Affairs.

The ministry was established last year to better safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of military personnel and their families, improve the management system of retired military personnel, and make military careers more respectable in the eyes of civilians.