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Notice of the General Office of the State Council on the Opinions of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Other Departments on the Preferential Policies on Supporting Self-employment of Urban Retired

The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government, and the ministries and commissions of the State Council and the institutions directly under the central government:

The Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the People's Bank of China, the General Administration of Taxation, and the General Administration of Industry and Commerce have agreed to the Opinions on the Preferential Policies on Supporting Self-employment of Urban Retired

Self-employment of urban retired soldiers is an effective way to resettle urban retired soldiers under the conditions of the socialist market economy, and is of great significance in safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of retired soldiers, promoting national defense and military construction, and maintaining economic development and social stability. It is essential to formulate preferential policies for self-employment for urban retired soldiers, to promote resettlement as quickly as possible to meet the requirements of the development of the socialist market economy, and to ensure the smooth implementation of self-employment. Local people's governments at all levels should be guided by the important thought of the Three Represents and the spirit of the 16th National Congress of the CPC, focusing on the overall situation of national defense and military construction, and starting from the fundamental interests of the CPC and the country, strengthen leadership, organize carefully and make careful arrangements. All relevant departments should play their respective roles, mutual support, close cooperation, timely supervision and inspection, seriously study and solve the contradictions and problems encountered in the work, the implementation of the preferential policies to support the urban retired soldiers to seek self-employment.

The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government may formulate specific implementation opinions in accordance with the provisions of this notice.

General Office of the State Council

January 20, 2004

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Opinions on Preferential Policies for Supporting Self-Employment of Urban Retired Soldiers

In order to meet the requirements of the development of the socialist market economy, promote the construction of national defense and the army, and safeguard the lawful rights and interests of The legitimate rights and interests of retired soldiers, in accordance with the "Chinese People's **** and the State Military Service Law" and the State Council, the Central Military Commission of the relevant policies and regulations, is hereby put forward the following opinions on the preferential policies to support the urban retired soldiers to seek self-employment:

One of the preferential policies of the qualifications

(1) meet the conditions of the urban resettlement and sign with the civil affairs department of the place of resettlement, "retired soldiers to seek self-employment Agreement with the civil affairs department of the resettlement place, and receive the "urban retired soldiers self-employment certificate" of non-commissioned officers and conscripts can enjoy the preferential policy of self-employment.

The retired urban soldiers who seek self-employment shall enjoy the preferential policies on self-employment in their hukou area with the Certificate of Self-Employment for Retired Urban Soldiers.

The style of the Self-employment Certificate for Urban Retired Soldiers is uniformly formulated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government are responsible for printing it, and the civil affairs department of the place of placement is responsible for issuing it.

Second, employment services and social security

(2) Various types of employment training and vocational education institutions shall, in accordance with the changes in the labor market and the needs of industrial restructuring, provide employment training for urban retired soldiers who seek self-employment. For urban retired soldiers who have been trained to obtain state-recognized vocational qualification certificates, the civil affairs department of the place of resettlement shall give a certain amount of subsidy to the training fees paid by individuals, with the necessary funds being included in the budget by the local finances, and the central government shall give appropriate subsidies to the resettlement of the heavily tasked and economically underdeveloped regions.

(3) all kinds of talent exchange service organizations and public **** employment agencies, to actively seek self-employment for the urban retired soldiers to provide vocational introduction and guidance services. Public **** employment agencies shall provide self-employed urban retired soldiers with file management and labor security affairs agency services, and shall reduce or waive the relevant service fees for a certain period of time.

(4) Employers shall, under equal conditions, give priority to self-employed urban retired soldiers when recruiting employees for society.

Administrative organs at all levels shall, in the recruitment of civil servants, allow self-employed urban retired soldiers who meet the conditions for application to sit for the examination, with the period of service regarded as years of social practice, and shall give priority to employment under the same conditions.

Self-employed urban retired soldiers who are employed by administrative organs or financially subsidized institutions within two years are required to return their Self-employed Urban Retired Soldier Certificates to the civil affairs departments, and to return the one-time economic subsidies they have been given, and are no longer entitled to the preferential policies on self-employment.

(5) After the employment of self-employed urban retired soldiers, they shall participate in the basic pension, basic medical care, unemployment and other social insurance in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state and local governments, and their military service shall be regarded as the number of years of social insurance contributions, and the actual number of years of contributions shall be combined and counted, so as to enjoy the corresponding social insurance treatment.

The social insurance agency in the place of resettlement shall, on the basis of the Certificate of Self-employment of Urban Retired Soldiers issued by the civil affairs department at or above the county level, handle the procedures of social insurance registration for the urban retired soldiers who are self-employed, and set up the individual accounts for basic pension, basic medical care, and other social insurances in a timely manner. During the service period to participate in the basic old-age pension, basic medical insurance personal account storage amount, and into the newly established basic old-age pension, basic medical insurance personal account.

Three, adult education and general higher education

(F) self-employed urban retired soldiers applying for adult colleges and universities, the total number of points can be increased by 10 points, of which during the military service of more than three honors, the total number of points can be increased by 20 points.

Self-employed urban retired soldiers applying for ordinary schools of higher education, the total score can be increased by 10 points, of which during the service of the second-class merit or more or was awarded an honorary title by a unit of the military region or above, the total score can be increased by 20 points.

Self-employed urban retired soldiers with a bachelor's degree applying for graduate school, under the same conditions, may be given priority to review or admission.

Four, self-employment

(7) Self-employed urban retired soldiers engaged in self-employment, in addition to state-restricted industries (including construction, entertainment, and advertising, saunas, massages, cybercafes, oxygen bars, etc.), from the date of approval by the industry and commerce department of their business, with the "urban retired soldiers self-employment certificate" for three years, exempted from the following fees:

1, Registration fees for individual business households (including opening registration and change registration), management fees for individual business households, management fees for marketplaces, and labor costs for model economic contracts collected by the industry and commerce department.

2. The management fee for private medical institutions charged by the health department.

3. Labor contract authentication fees collected by the Labor Security Department.

4, the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government and their financial and price authorities approved the establishment of registration and management fees involving self-employment.

5, other registration and management fees.

V. Taxation

(8) In order to place self-employed urban retired soldiers for employment and the new service-oriented enterprises (except advertising, sauna, massage, Internet cafes, oxygen bars) in that year, the new placement of self-employed urban retired soldiers to reach the total number of employees of more than 30%, and signed with them a period of more than one year labor contract, identified by the civil affairs departments at or above the county level, the tax authorities to review, 3 years exempted from business tax and its accompanying levy. Within three years, the company will be exempted from business tax, urban maintenance and construction tax, education surcharge and enterprise income tax.

The above enterprises that have placed less than 30% of the total number of self-employed urban retired soldiers in the year, but have signed a labor contract with them for more than one year, shall be exempted from levying enterprise income tax for three years according to the reduced levy ratio calculated by the civil affairs departments at or above the county level and examined by the tax authorities. Reduction ratio = (the enterprise newly recruited self-employed urban retired soldiers ÷ the total number of employees × 100%) × 2.

(ix) for the placement of self-employed urban retired soldiers employment and the new business enterprises (engaged in wholesale, wholesale and retail, as well as other non-retail business business business, except for the business enterprises), the year of the new placement of self-employment of urban retired soldiers to the total number of employees more than 30%, and signed a labor contract with them for a period of more than 1 year. And sign a labor contract with them for a period of more than one year, identified by the civil affairs departments at or above the county level, and examined by the tax authorities, will be exempted from urban maintenance and construction tax, education surcharge and enterprise income tax for three years.

The above enterprises which have placed less than 30% of the total number of self-employed urban retired soldiers in the same year, but have signed labor contracts with them for more than one year, shall be exempted from the enterprise income tax for three years according to the reduced levy ratio calculated by the civil affairs departments at or above the county level and examined by the tax authorities. Reduction ratio = (new recruits of self-employed urban retired soldiers ÷ total number of employees of the enterprise × 100%) × 2.

(j) For self-employed retired soldiers engaged in self-employment (except for the construction industry, the entertainment industry, and the advertising industry, saunas, massages, cybercafes, and oxygen cafes), they shall be exempted from business tax, urban maintenance and construction tax, education surcharge, and individual income tax for a period of three years from the date of obtaining the tax registration certificate. surcharge and personal income tax.

(xi) The new enterprises referred to in this opinion are those newly organized after the issuance of this opinion. The merger, separation, restructuring, reorganization, expansion, relocation, transfer of production, as well as the absorption of new members, change of leadership or affiliation, and change of the name of the enterprise cannot be regarded as a new enterprise.

The service-oriented enterprises referred to in this opinion are those engaged in the business activities stipulated in the current business tax "service industry" tax item.

(xii) Retired urban soldiers who are self-employed and engaged in the development of deserted mountains, deserted land, deserted beaches and deserted water shall be exempted from agricultural tax for three years starting from the year of income. For those engaged in planting and farming, the personal income tax payable shall be implemented in accordance with the state regulations on personal income tax for planting and farming. Those engaged in agricultural mechanized plowing, drainage and irrigation, pest control, plant protection, agricultural and animal husbandry insurance and related technical training business, as well as poultry, livestock, aquatic animal breeding and disease control business, are exempted from business tax according to the current business tax regulations.

Sixth, loans

(xiii) self-employed retired soldiers engaged in self-employment or set up economic entities, operating funds are insufficient, can be held in the town of retired soldiers to apply for loans to commercial banks self-employment certificate. Meet the loan conditions, commercial banks should give priority to credit support.

Seven, household registration

(xiv) self-employed urban retired soldiers in the following county-level towns with a lawful fixed abode, a stable occupation or source of livelihood, should be allowed to "urban retired soldiers to seek self-employment card" and the corresponding certificate for settlement, their families and children are agricultural households, allowed to apply for the "agricultural to non-" formalities and settled with them. If his family members and children are agricultural household members, they are allowed to go through the procedure of "agricultural to non-agricultural" and settle down with him. Self-employed urban retired soldiers in cities above the prefecture level to settle down in accordance with the relevant local regulations.

When handling the settlement of self-employed urban retired soldiers and their spouses and children, no fees other than those stipulated by state policy shall be charged.

Ministry of Civil Affairs

Ministry of Education

Ministry of Public Security

Ministry of Finance

Ministry of Personnel

Ministry of Labor Security

People's Bank of China

Secretariat General of Taxation

Secretariat General of Industry and Commerce

December 8, 2003

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Notice on the Issuance of Measures for the Resettlement of Discharged Conscripts and Transferred Volunteer Soldiers in Panjin City

Panjin Municipal Government Regulation No. 7 [1998]

Chapter I General Provisions

Article 1 In order to do a good job in the resettlement of discharged conscripts and transferred volunteers, and in accordance with the "People's Republic of China **** and State Military Service Law" and "Liaoning Province, veteran conscripts resettlement implementation rules" (Liao Zheng Fa [1989] No. 111), combined with the actual situation in the city, the development of this approach.

Second Article Anyone who resettles discharged conscripts and transferred volunteers within the city must abide by these measures.

Article 3 The veteran conscripts and volunteers referred to in these measures are those listed in Article 2 of the Regulations on the Resettlement of Discharged Conscripts issued by the State Council.

Article 4 The reception and resettlement of discharged conscripts and transferred volunteers is carried out under the leadership of the people's governments of cities and counties (districts).

The people's governments at all levels set up veterans' resettlement organizations, which are responsible for the resettlement of discharged conscripts and transferred volunteers. Military sub-districts (People's Armed Forces Department), public security, planning, labor, personnel, preparation, food, finance, health and other relevant departments should work together to do a good job of resettlement of veterans.

Article 5 Resettlement of discharged conscripts and volunteers is an important task for consolidating national defense, strengthening military construction and ensuring social stability. Institutions, organizations, enterprises and institutions within the city and citizens have the obligation to receive and resettle discharged conscripts and volunteers, and must complete the resettlement tasks issued by the governments at all levels (including the transfer of resettlement fees) with quality and quantity, and may not refuse to receive and resettle them for any reason.

Chapter II: Resettlement of Rural Discharged Conscripts

Article 6: For discharged conscripts with agricultural household registration, the people's governments of the local townships (towns) shall provide appropriate assistance and care in the establishment of households, purchase of grain, capital, technology, land use, etc., and shall support the development of production; and when township enterprises and public institutions are recruiting for the society, they shall give priority to the discharged conscripts when recruiting them on the basis of the same conditions.

When arranging for the export of labor, all relevant departments shall, under equal conditions, give priority to veteran conscripts.

Article 7 For those who have won the honorary title of the Central Military Commission or a major military region, or who have been awarded the second-ranking merit once or the third-ranking merit twice or more during their service in the army, as well as for orphaned discharged conscripts, they shall be accepted and resettled by the veterans' resettlement departments of the counties and districts where they were originally recruited, and their hukou will be converted into a non-agricultural hukou.

Article 8: Soldiers with disabilities of the second or third degree or above who have been disabled in battle or in the line of duty during their service in the armed forces shall be accepted and resettled by the veterans' resettlement department of the place where they were originally recruited, with their household registration converted to non-agricultural household registration, and shall be paid disability health care benefits in accordance with the regulations.

Article IX counties, districts veterans resettlement departments to establish veterans file system, recommendation system, set up by the civil affairs, the Ministry of People's Armed Forces and other departments to participate in the veterans dual-use talent management organization, and actively help and support veterans to establish economic entities, the tertiary industry. To establish the veterans of modern agricultural scientific knowledge, knowledge of commodity production and production skills training base, so that they in the development of modern agriculture and the organization of farmers to rich and well-off to play a leading role in the backbone.

Chapter III Reassignment of Volunteer Soldiers and Urban Discharged Conscripts

Article 10 Reassignment of Volunteer Soldiers and Urban Hukou (including rural commodities, the same hereinafter) discharged conscripts shall be received and resettled by the municipal and county (district) veterans' resettlement departments, with resettlement quotas issued by the people's governments of the various levels, and with the implementation of the systematic distribution of tasks, packaged resettlement and a balanced burden on the whole society for resettlement tasks, and Allocations are made on the basis of merit according to one's performance during service in the armed forces. The resettlement quota is calculated cumulatively on a year-by-year basis for those units that do not have enough for a quota in the current year on a proportional basis.

Article 11 The discharged conscripts from urban households who were not graduated from schools (including secondary specialized schools and technical schools) before enlisting in the armed forces shall be allowed to resume their studies at the beginning of the next semester if they request to continue their studies after their discharge and if they meet the conditions for their studies, and if their original schools are withdrawn or merged, the municipal and county (district) education departments shall arrange for them to study in the corresponding schools.

Article 12: Volunteer soldiers who have been transferred to other occupations and discharged conscripts with urban household registration who were regular employees of enterprises and public institutions before enlisting in the armed forces shall be reinstated by their original units after their discharge from the armed forces, and if their original units have been withdrawn or merged, they shall be resettled by the higher authorities of the merged units, or they may be assigned by the department of resettlement of war veterans to be resettled in a unified manner.

Article 13: Discharged conscripts from urban households who have applied for admission to colleges and universities and specialized secondary schools and who have not been admitted to such schools within one year of their discharge may continue to be resettled; if they have not been admitted to such schools after taking the examination for more than one year, they will no longer be resettled by the department responsible for the resettlement of war veterans.

Article 14 If a veteran conscript with an urban household registration has his parents' household registration relocated during his military service, and if he asks to be resettled in the place where his parents' household registration is located after being discharged from the army, he shall provide proof of the household registration in the place where he had his household registration before he was enlisted in the army and proof of the household registration in the place where his new household registration is located before he is accepted and resettled.

If the family of a discharged conscript was originally an agricultural household, and both parents were transferred to a non-agricultural household in accordance with relevant state policies during the period of service, the discharged conscript will be resettled in accordance with an urban household (except for non-policy agricultural households that were transferred to non-agricultural households).

Article 15 If a volunteer soldier who has been transferred to another job or a veteran conscript with urban household registration is to be resettled across counties or districts, he or she must submit the case to the municipal department of veterans' resettlement for approval.

Article 16: If an urban household conscript is withdrawn from active duty early upon approval of the division (brigade) or higher authorities (including division and brigade authorities) due to a reduction in the number of posts in the armed forces, or if he or she is disabled as a result of a war-related or service-incurred injury (including illness), or if he or she is unfit for active service in the armed forces because of illness, or if he or she is transferred out of the armed forces due to the needs of national construction, or because of a major change in his or her family, he or she will be taken in and properly relocated in accordance with the policies. The veterans' resettlement department of the place of recruitment shall accept the veterans' resettlement and make proper resettlement in accordance with the relevant policies.

Article 17 If a volunteer soldier who has been transferred to a new occupation or a discharged conscript with an urban household registration is sentenced to a fixed term of imprisonment or more for a criminal offense (other than a crime of negligence) committed during the period of time in which he or she is to be assigned to a new occupation, he or she shall be disqualified from resettlement.

Article 18 Upon leaving the army, the volunteers who have been transferred to another profession and the discharged conscripts with urban household registration shall report to the veterans' resettlement department of the place where they have joined the army within a specified period of time, and their files shall be sent by the army or mailed to them; the veterans' resettlement department shall not accept the files that the individuals bring with them themselves. Those who do not report to the veterans' resettlement department within one year after leaving the army or do not report to the receiving unit within half a year after resettlement shall be treated as having left the army automatically.

Article 19 of the transfer of volunteer soldiers, urban households, veterans of compulsory military resettlement funds, respectively, included in the city, county (district) budget, earmarked for special purposes, are not allowed to be misappropriated.

Article 20 For the transfer of volunteers, urban households discharged conscripts voluntarily to the labor market, self-employment, do not need the state resettlement, upon written application, may be paid from the paid transfer of a one-time resettlement fee.

Article 21 For units which, due to objective constraints, find it difficult to implement the resettlement plan in the current year, they may, with the approval of the local government, embody their obligations in the form of economic compensation, with the amount of compensated transfers calculated on the basis of the total annual per capita wages and benefits of their employees or the amount stipulated by the higher-level resettlement department.

Article 22 The people's governments of cities and counties (districts) shall give commendations or rewards to the units and individuals who have performed outstandingly in the work of receiving and resettling transferred volunteers and discharged conscripts.

Chapter IV: Incentives and Penalties

Article 23 The unit or department that refuses to accept and resettle the transferred volunteers and discharged conscripts without justifiable reasons shall be punished according to the circumstances:

(1) It shall not be rated as an advanced unit of the government's performance appraisal or a model unit of the "double embrace" work (advanced) unit;

(ii) by the personnel, labor and enterprise departments in charge of freezing the receiving unit's personnel relations;

(iii) by the people's governments above the county veterans resettlement department according to the number of people who failed to complete the task of receiving and resettling the unit shall be sentenced to a fine of 5,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan per person, the person in charge of the unit shall be sentenced to a fine of 500 yuan to 1,000 yuan. At the same time, it shall not be exempted from the task of receiving and resettling, and shall be ordered to receive it within a certain period of time. If the punished unit neither files an administrative reconsideration, nor accepts the punishment and receives the veterans as scheduled, nor applies for a compensated transfer, the local government veterans resettlement department may refer the case to the people's court for compulsory execution, and the leader of the unit shall be given a notification of criticism or more disciplinary action.

Article 24 The veterans resettlement departments at all levels shall act strictly in accordance with the law, and in the case of abuse of power, favoritism and malpractice, the person concerned shall be given administrative sanctions; if the situation is serious and the law is violated, the case shall be referred to the judicial organs for the investigation of criminal responsibility according to law.

Chapter V Supplementary Provisions

Article 25 Specific issues in the implementation of these measures shall be interpreted by the Panjin Civil Affairs Bureau.

Article 26 These measures shall come into force on the date of publication.

November 9, 1998

Liaoning Province, the implementation of the rules for the resettlement of discharged conscripts

Liao Zheng Fa [1989] No. 111

Article 1 In accordance with the State Council issued the "Regulations on the Resettlement of Discharged Conscripts" (hereinafter referred to as "the Regulations"), in conjunction with the actual situation of the province, to formulate the implementation of these rules.

Article 2 The term "discharged conscripts" as used in these Implementing Rules refers to the persons listed in Article 2 of the Regulations.

Anyone who resettles discharged conscripts within the territory of the province must abide by the Regulations and these Implementing Rules.

Article 3 The people's governments at all levels unify and lead the work of resettling discharged conscripts.

The civil affairs departments of the people's governments of provinces, cities and counties (including county-level cities and districts, hereinafter the same) may, in accordance with the circumstances of the resettlement work, set up veterans' resettlement organizations and equip them with staff members appropriate to their tasks, and be responsible for the specific work of resettlement of discharged conscripts.

Departments of the People's Armed Forces, planning, labor, personnel, food, finance, and health, and public security organs shall assist the civil affairs departments at the same level in the resettlement of discharged conscripts.

Article 4 The resettlement of discharged conscripts must adhere to the principle of going back from whence they came, and the resettlement procedures shall be handled by the resettlement organizations for veterans above the county level. The public security organs, food departments and employers shall, on the basis of a letter of introduction from the veterans' resettlement organization, handle the procedures for settling in, supplying food and oil, and accepting resettlement respectively.

Article 5 The local people's government shall provide assistance in technology, information and capital to veteran conscripts who are originally of agricultural household registration, and support their development of agricultural production if they are in a position to do so.

Article VI of the army service during the second-class merit (including the second-class merit) or more, was originally an agricultural household of discharged conscripts, before leaving the army meritorious documents are complete, complete procedures, by the original enlistment county veterans resettlement agencies responsible for receiving, should be arranged in the county of national ownership or collective ownership of enterprises and institutions, I changed to non-agricultural households, the supply of commercial grain. However, except for the reissuance of meritorious documents after leaving the army.

Article VII of the military service in the army during the war, disabled in the line of duty, the second and third class revolutionary disabled soldiers, including the original agricultural household registration of conscripts, after discharge from the original enlistment can not be arranged for the work of the original enlistment of the local, can be in the annual two-thousandths of the agricultural transfer to non-industrial indicators within the appropriate care, and issued to the countryside invalidity pensions.

Article 8 The original agricultural household of the unaccompanied veteran conscripts, no housing or serious shortage of housing, self-built and rely on the collective help to build the wood required by the provincial, municipal, and county material department single index, with the county veterans resettlement agency issued a certificate of supply. Other building materials and residential construction land needed to build houses, by the relevant departments to help solve.

Article 9: Employees or sons and daughters of employees enlisted in the nationally owned farms, forests, ranches and fisheries shall be accepted and resettled by their original units after their discharge from the army. However, those who were originally from urban households shall be treated as urban discharged conscripts.

Article 10 After the discharge of conscripts who were originally from urban households, they shall be accepted and resettled by the provincial, municipal and county veterans' resettlement organizations on the basis of the "Resettlement Cards for Conscripts from Urban and Rural Non-Agricultural Populations". The cards are uniformly printed by the province.

The people's governments of cities and counties shall, each year, issue pre-distribution of labor indicators to each system in a timely manner before the discharged conscripts return to their original places of enlistment. The resettlement agencies shall resettle the discharged conscripts according to the pre-distribution of labor indexes.

Article 11: If a discharged conscript who was originally a member of the urban household register asks for self-employment, the veterans' resettlement organization of the city or county in which he was originally recruited and other relevant departments shall give him support and assistance to the extent permitted by the policy. The veterans' resettlement organizations shall no longer be responsible for resettlement.

Article 12: Conscripts who were originally from towns and cities and were removed from the army or discharged from the army shall be accepted by the street office or town people's government of the place where they were originally recruited; the public security organs shall, on the basis of the certificate issued by the army's divisional (brigade) organs or above, give them the opportunity to go through the procedures of settling down and shall treat them as unemployed members of the community.

Article 13 Discharged conscripts who meet the requirements of Article 12 of the Regulations shall no longer be resettled by the veterans' resettlement organizations after their resumption of schooling.

Article 14 The age of discharged conscripts may be relaxed by three years when they apply for admission to provincial colleges and universities and secondary specialized schools. Those who take the examination within one year of discharge and are not accepted may continue to be resettled; if they apply again after one year, the veterans' resettlement organization will no longer be responsible for resettlement.

Article 15 Conscripts who suffered from mental illness or chronic diseases during their service must have a certificate of illness issued by a hospital at or above the regimental level of the army in their files when they are discharged from the army.

Originally agricultural household conscripts who suffered from chronic diseases during their military service, and were not cured after their discharge from the army or needed treatment for the recurrence of their old illnesses, the required medical and living expenses shall be taken care of by themselves. If there are difficulties, the local civil affairs departments will provide appropriate subsidies.

Veterans resettlement organizations at all levels shall, in accordance with the provisions of the discharged conscripts who are sick, wounded and disabled, handle the acceptance procedures in a timely manner.

Article 16 If a conscript's parents move from town to town or from the countryside to the town during his military service and request resettlement in their parents' place of residence when he is discharged from the army, he shall be accepted for resettlement on the basis of the certificates issued by the unit of his parents or by the street office (town people's government) and the local public security authorities, as well as his parents' Household Registration Books and Cereal and Oil Supply Certificates. If a conscript's parents move from the towns to the countryside during his or her military service, the conscript may be resettled, on his or her own free will, in the towns or villages of the county in which his or her parents are located when he or she is discharged. However, unless the State stipulates otherwise.

Article 17 If a conscript who has been discharged from the army due to special circumstances requests to be resettled in a different place, on the premise of not changing the nature of the household registration, in addition to providing the relevant certificates and filling in the "Declaration Form for Resettlement of Discharged Soldiers due to Special Reasons", the following regulations shall be applied after obtaining the consent of the place of acceptance:

(1) If the resettlement is to be carried out in inter-provincial (including entry and exit provinces) or inter-municipal, it shall be examined and approved by the provincial agency for resettlement of discharged veterans.

(b) In case of inter-county resettlement within the city, the municipal veterans resettlement organization shall examine and approve the case and report it to the provincial veterans resettlement organization for the record.

Any veteran conscripts found to have resorted to fraudulent means to realize easy resettlement shall be returned to the original place of recruitment.

Article 18 The veterans' resettlement organizations shall not accept the personnel file seals of the conscripts when they are opened at the time of discharge.

Article 19 The funds for the resettlement of discharged conscripts shall be included in the provincial, municipal and county budgets. Used in rural areas without housing or serious shortage of unaccompanied veteran conscripts building subsidies, veteran conscripts, technical training, to be assigned to the period of illness and medical treatment, as well as the printing of publicity materials and other expenditures.

Funds for the resettlement of discharged conscripts should be earmarked for specific purposes, and are not allowed to be misappropriated.

Article 20 The people's government or the civil affairs department shall give commendation or reward to the units which have made outstanding achievements in receiving and resettling discharged conscripts.

Article 21 If a unit refuses to accept and resettle discharged conscripts without justifiable reasons, it shall be ordered by the provincial or municipal civil affairs department to accept and resettle them within a certain period of time, and shall bear all the wages payable to the discharged conscripts during the period of refusal to accept them. In the event of serious consequences, the competent leaders of the unit and those directly responsible shall be held accountable.

Article 22 The staff of the veterans' resettlement organizations at all levels and the relevant departments shall, in the resettlement of discharged conscripts, abide by the law and act impartially. Anyone who abuses his or her authority or engages in malpractice for personal gain or personal gain shall be subject to administrative sanctions by the competent authorities; if the circumstances are serious and the law is violated, the matter shall be brought to the attention of the judicial organs for the investigation of criminal responsibility in accordance with the law.

Article 23 The implementation of the rules by the provincial Civil Affairs Bureau is responsible for interpretation.

Article 24 These Implementing Rules shall come into force on the date of publication.