Regulations of Jiangsu Province on the Recruitment of Soldiers

(Adopted at the Sixteenth Session of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth People’s Congress of Jiangsu Province on May 29, 2015.)

Chapter I General Provisions

Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in accordance with the Law of the People's Republic of China on National Defence, the Military Service Law of the People's Republic of China, the Regulations of the Recruitment of Soldiers, and other relevant laws and administrative regulations, in light of the specific situations of this Provinceand for the purposes of strengthening national defense construction and ensuring the smooth procedure of the recruitment of soldiers.

Article 2 These Regulations shall apply to therecruitment of soldiers in peacetime. The recruitment of soldiers in wartime shall be carried out according to the order of the State Council and the Central Military Commission and relevant provisions of the State.

Government organs, public organizations, enterprises and institutions, other organizations and citizens and military personals who accepted (led) soldiers shall comply with these Regulations.

Article 3 It is a sacred duty of every citizen to defend the motherland and resist aggression. It is anhonorable duty of citizens to perform military service in accordance with law.

Recruitment of Soldiers isimportant work of strengthening military construction and consolidating national defense and the common obligation of the whole society.

Article 4 The provincial commands, sub-commands (garrison commands) and the departments of people's armed forces of counties (cities or districts) shall concurrently act as the military service organs of the People's governments at the corresponding levels and shall be responsible for military service work in their respective areas under the leadership of military organs at higher levels and the People's governments at corresponding levels.

Local People’s governments at or above the county level shall organize the military service organs and departments such as propaganda, education, public security, civil affairs, traffic and transportation, human resources and social security and health and family planning to form the enlistmentofficeresponsible for the recruitment of soldiers in this area.

The People’s governments of townships and towns, sub-district offices and government organs, public organizations, enterprises and institutions shall, according to the arrangement and requirements of the People’s governments of the county (city or district) and the military service organs of the corresponding level, be responsible for the recruitment of soldiers of this area or unit.

Recruitment of soldiers at institutions of higher learning shall be centrallymanaged by military service organs in the county (city or district) where they are located. Where the main campus and sub-campus of a institution of higher learning are located in different county (city or district), the military service organ of the city with subordinate districts and county (city or district) shall make a decision in conjunction with the institution of higher learning.

Article 5 The number, scope, time and requirement of the recruitment of conscripts in the whole province every year shall be decided by the provincial People’s government and the provincial commands according to the enlistment order of the State Council and the Central Military Commission.

The distribution of the task of conscript recruitment shall be decided according to the population of registered local residents, the quantities and qualities of citizens at the properages and the public’s production and living situations and on the principle of overall consideration and burden balancing.

Local People’s governmentsat various levels and military service organs shall carry out the enlistment order and other relevant provisions, complete the recruitment task, and ensure the qualities of recruits. Where the city with subordinated districts and county (city or district) has difficulty in completing the enlistment task, it may apply to the enlistment office of the People’s government at the higher level for an adjustment within this area. The place to cut down quota shall be responsible for preferential placement funds needed for the adjustment of enlistment quota and the place to accept the added quota shall be responsible for handling relevant procedures.

The number, major and time and so on concerning the recruitment of the non-commissioned officers directly recruited from non-military sectors shall be decided according to the recruitment plan released by the Headquarters of the General Staff and implemented by the enlistment office of the provincial People’s government.

Article 6 Local People’s governments atvarious levels shall incorporate dissemination and education of enlistment into the planning of education of patriotism, education of national defense, and law dissemination and education, and take it into consideration of evaluation and rating.

Government organs, public organizations, enterprises and institutions and other organizations shall strengthen citizens’ education on national defense and dissemination and education of laws and regulations of military service, cultivatecitizens’ patriotism and raise citizens’ awareness of national defense and their concept of serving the military according to law.

Media such as radio, TV, newspapers and Internet and communication carriers shall take an initiative to carry out enlistment dissemination for public interests, broadcast advertisements on enlistment dissemination for public interests for free.

Article 7 Local People’s governments at or above the county level shall include the funds for enlistment and work of military service registration into financial budget.

The provincial People’s government shall grant special funds for enlistment according to the enlistment task and the insufficient part shall be coveredby the People’s governments of cities with subordinate districts, and counties (cities or districts).

Funds for enlistment and work of military service registration shall be in the charge of the enlistment office of local People’s governments at or above the county level, used for special purposes and supervised by the military service organs at the higher level and financial and auditing department of the corresponding level.

Funds for enlistment at institutions of higher learning shall be included and guaranteed by the financial budget.

Measures to collect preferential treatment subsidiesfor conscript families and once-for-all financial subsidies for discharged soldiers who look forjobs on their own shall be carried out according to relevant provincial stipulations.

Article 8 Theservicemen and their family shall be respected by the whole society. Local people’s governments atvarious levels shall carry out all kinds of activities forsupporting the military and preferentially treatingtheir family. Socialorganizations and individuals shall be encouraged to take part in theactivities of supporting the military and preferentially treatingtheir family, and provide assistance to theundertakings of caring and preferentially treating servicemen.

The  servicemen and their family enjoy the preferential treatment prescribed by the State and the Province.

Article 9 Citizens at proper ages shall be encouraged to serve the military in the areas under harsh conditions such as Tibet. The people’s government of the county (city or district) which recruits soldiers shallaccording to stipulations, increase the standard of preferential treatments for soldiers who serve the military in the areas under harsh conditions such as Tibet.

Where soldiers serve the military in the areas under harsh conditions such as Tibet because of work transfer or troop relocation, they shall be given preferential treatments according to the provisions in the previous paragraph.

Article 10 Local People’s governments at various levels shall consider the enlistment work as important components of work such as double-support rating and performance appraisal of leaders and cadres. The unit or individual who has outstanding performances in the enlistment work shall be commended and awarded; the unit or individual who fails to complete the enlistment task or is responsible for the withdrawal of soldiers shall be investigated for their responsibilities.

Chapter II Registration of Military Service

Article 11 Military service organs of counties (cities or districts) shall be responsible for the work of military service registrationin their areas.

The township People’s governments, sub-district offices, units with grassroots People's armed forces departments and units which are decided by military service organs of the county (city or district) shall undertake detailed work of military service registration in their areas or units.

Article 12 The unit which undertakes the work of military service registration shall according to requirements of military service organs of the county (city and district), inform and notify the citizens at proper ages in this area or in this unit in a written form of performing the procedures of military service registration on time and report the result of military service registration to military service organs of the county (city and district) based on the fact at the end of military service registration.

Local police stations shall according to requirements of military service organs of the county (city or district), provide the name list of citizens at proper ages in this area and other relevant information.

Article 13 Citizens atproper ages shall go through military service registration by June 30 of the same year according to requirements of the notification of military service organs of the county (city or district).

Where citizens at proper ages log into on the national website of recruitment of soldiers to register for military service, military service organs and the unit which undertakes military service registration shall provide guidance and assistance.

When citizens at proper agestake part in military service registration, their unitsshall regard it asattendance.

Article 14 A system of military service certificate shall be applied to the citizens at proper ages in this province.

The unit which undertakes military service registration shall issue military service certificates to citizens at proper ages who have gonethrough military service registration and record the information of the citizens at proper ages on the military service certificate based on the facts, such as being enlisted, putting off enlistment, exemption from enlistment, no enlistment and having been enlisted.

The format of the military service certificateshall be formulated by the provincial military service organs and printed and made by the military service organs of the city with subordinate districts. Military service certificates shall not be lent, altered, counterfeited or faked.

Article 15 Citizens at proper ages who hold the military service certificate shall abide by the following stipulations:

(1) keeping the military service certificate properly and in case of missing it, applying for replacement to the issuing unit in time;

(2) bringing the military service certificate to the spot of military service registration to perform procedures of reconfirmation according to the requirements of military service organs within the prescribed time limit every year;and

(3) where the registered residence or working unit changes, going through registration procedures for the change at the unit in the new place which undertakes military service registration, within thirty days as of the date of change.

Article16 Departments such as human resources and social security, education, exit-entry administration and industry and commerce and units shall remind citizens at proper ages of performing their duties of military service registration when recruiting civil servants, accepting students, employing staff, and going through exit-entry procedures or industrial and commercial business licenses.

Article 17 Military service organs of the county (city or district) and grassroots unit shall select preliminarily enlisted targets of a required number through themilitary service registration and strengthen the management, education and investigation.

Where the preliminarily enlisted target leaves the county (city or district) where the residence is registered over thirty days, he/she shall report to the local villager committee, resident committee or grassroots people’s armed forces department where he/shewill goand his/hercontacting methods within fifteen days since his/her leaving, and be enlisted according to the notification of military service organs. The preliminarily enlisted target’s villager committee, resident committee and grassroots People’s armed forces department and his direct relatives shall urge him/her to be enlisted on time and provide him/her with convenience.

Chapter III Physical Examination, Political Quality Examinationand Interview and Investigation

Article 18 The enlistment office of local People’s governments at or above the county level shall organize and coordinate the physicalexamination, political quality examinationand interview and investigation in the recruitment of soldiers.

Interview and investigation shall be conducted after enlisted citizens’physical examination, at the same time of the political quality examination and before the completion of approval of the recruits.

Article 19 Health and family planning department shall be responsible for physicalexamination in the recruitment of soldiers, public security organs, grassroots units and institutions of higher learning shall be responsible for political scrutiny in the recruitment of soldiers and township governments, sub-district offices and institutions of higher learning shall be responsible for undertaking interview and investigation.

Health and family planning department and public security organs of this province and cities with subordinate districts shall formulate a plan of physical examination and politicalquality examination, train working staff, inspect and guide physicalexamination and political quality examinationin the recruitment of soldiers in the county (city or district).

Health and family planning department, public security organs and relevant grassroots units of the county (city or district) and institutions of higher learning shall transfer and assign working staff to engage in the physicalexamination, political quality examinationand interview and investigation in the recruitment of soldiers, according to the unified arrangement of the enlistment office of local people’s governments.

Article 20 The political quality examinationof graduates and undergraduates of institutions of higher learning shall be in the charge of public security organs of the county (city or district) which recruit soldiers and the institutions of higher learning where the students live.

Where the student who has been admitted to institutions of higher learning is enlisted in the place where the school is located, his political quality examinationshall be in the charge of the public security organs where his residence is registered before he/she enters university or where his permanent residence is.

Article 21 The enlistment office of local People’s governments at or above the county level shall organize the reconfirmation of political quality examinationaccording to thestipulations, and randomly review the conditioned soldiers’physicalexamination and inspect the quality of ordinary soldiers’physicalexamination.

Article 22 A post responsibilitysystem for the work of physicalexamination, political quality examinationand interview and investigation in the recruitment of soldiers shall be conducted and the working staff shall strictlyfollow relevant stipulations and standards to ensure the quality of the recruits.

Article 23 Whenthe persons who are transferred to participate in physical examination, political quality examinationand interview and investigation in the recruitment of soldiers engage in physicalexamination, political quality examinationand interview and investigation in the recruitment of soldiers, their units shall give them the same treatments of those in the on-duty position at the corresponding levels.

When the enlisted citizens participate in physicalexamination, political quality examinationand interview and investigation in the recruitment of soldiers, their units shall take it into account of attendance and not deduct their salary, bonus and benefits or terminate labor relations.

Chapter IV Check and Determination of the Recruits

Article 24 The check and determination of the recruits shall adhere to grassroots recommendation, collective examination and accepting the best to ensurejustice, openness and fairness.

Article 25 Township people’s governments, sub-district offices and units with grassroots People’s armed forces departments shall preliminarily check recommendation in the check and determination of the recruits and the enlistment office of People’s governments of the county (city or district) shall check and approve it.

Article 26 When checking and determining the recruits, the enlistment office of People’s governments of the county (city or district) shall conduct an overallevaluation of the enlisted citizens who are eligible for physicalexamination and political quality examinationandadmit the best for recruits.

Graduates and undergraduates of institutions of higher learning eligible for enlistment shall be approved of enlistment preferably.

Article 27 Where graduates and undergraduates of institutions of higher learning eligible for enlistment are enlisted from the school, the enlistment office of the People’s governments of the county (city or district) where the school is located shall approve the enlistment; where they are enlisted from the registered residence before they are admitted to schools, the enlistment office of the People’s governments of the county (city or district) where the residence is registered shall approve the enlistment.

Article 28 The enlistment office of the People’s governments of the county (city or district) and the township People’s governments, sub-district offices and units with grassroots People’s armed forces departments shall publicize the name of enlisted citizens eligible for physicalexamination and political quality examination, that of those preliminarily approved for enlistment and recommended and that of approved recruits to receive public supervision.

Article 29 Before the departure of the recruits, the enlistment office of the People’s governments of the county (city or district) shall reexamine the approved recruits’physique and reconfirm their political qualityand immediately exchange the illegible ones.

Chapter V Delivery and Transportation of the Recruits and Acceptance of the Rejected

Article 30 Theenlistment office of the People’s government of the city with subordinate districts and the county (city or district) shall complete the work of delivering and transportingtherecruits according to the prescribed time and requirements.

Article 31 With respect to thedelivery of the recruits, the method of sending the recruits by the assigned personnel from the enlistment office of the People’s governments of the county (city or district) or the recruits’ reporting to the armed forces themselves or the recruits’ being accepted (led) by the special personnel from the armed forces may be adopted.

Where the recruits areaccepted (led) by the special personnel from the armed forces, the enlistment office of the People’s governments of the county (city or district) shall go through procedures of the recruits delivery with the accepting (leading) armed forces at the place where it is located or other placesconvenient for traffic a day ahead of the departure of the recruits and assist the accepting (leading) armed forcesforthe management of the recruits.

Article 32 Where the recruits areaccepted(led) by the special personnel from the armed forces or sent by the assigned personnel from the enlistment office of the People’s governments of the county (city or district), the enlistment office of local People’s governments at or above the county level shall according to stipulations,drafta plan of transporting recruits and report it to the higher level for approval. Traffic and transportation department shall according to the plan of transporting recruits, immediately deploy transport vehicles to ensure the recruits’ safety and their arrival at the armed forces on time.

The accepting (leading) armed forces shall not change the plan of transporting the recruits or arrange the transport vehicles to transport the recruits without the approval of the enlistment office of the provincial People’s government.

Article 33 For those recruits who are rejected because of the failure to meet the conditions or illegibility for active service in the armed forces due to physicalor political conditions after the quarantine inspection and reexamination in the armed forces, the enlistment office of the People’s government of the city with subordinate districts shall organize reexaminationaccording to relevant stipulations. Where the conditions for rejections are met, the enlistment office of the People’s government of the city with subordinate districts shall handle procedures for the rejection of the recruits and inform the enlistment office of the People’s governments of the county (city or district) where he was originally enlisted of bringing him/her back and revoke his /her enlistment procedures, and the public security organs shall approve his/her settlement registration. If the person is originally a working member of the government organ, social organization, enterprise and institution unit, he /she shall be approved to restore his working post;if he/she is originally a student of an institutionof higher learning, the school which preserves his student status shall restore it according to relevant stipulations.

Chapter VI Preferential Treatment and Placement

Article 34 When the conscripts is in active service, their family shall enjoy preferential treatment granted by the local People’s governments.

The preferential treatment funds for conscripts’ family shall be granted by the local People’s government which approved enlistment, and detailed standards shall be formulated by the People’s governments of the county (city or district) according to relevant stipulations of the provincial People’s government.

Article 35 Besides the preferential treatments prescribed in the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Military Service, Regulations on Pensions and Preferential Treatment Concerning Soldiers, and Regulations on Placement of Ex-servicemen, soldiers shall also enjoy the followingpreferential treatments:

(1) whencompensations and placement arecollected, they shall be included into the total number of the family;

(2) the land, forest, water areas  contracted before the enlistment shall be preserved, and if the land where the original registered residence was located is collected, they shall enjoy the same treatment as other citizens of the original registered residence; during their active service, they shall be exempted from other burdens besides relevant taxations as prescribed inthe contract and based on relevant stipulations of the State;

(3) if an employee is enlisted during the employment, the original unit shall pay full salary, bonus and all kinds of subsidies of the same month when he was enlisted before his enlistment, the original labor contract shall be postponed according to the term of military service except for the case that he/sheproposes to cancel or terminate the labor contract;

(4) ifa soldier was an employee of government organs, social organizations or enterprises and institutions (including contract workers) before his enlistment, his /her family continues to enjoy relevant benefits and treatments as the employee’s family in the unit during his /her active service;

(5) during disaster and poverty relief efforts, soldiers’ family shall be treated preferentially under the same condition;

(6) when villager committees or collective economic organizations raise funds or labor from their members according to laws and regulations so as to develop production or start up business for public interests, they shall take care of soldiers’ family and reduce their burdens;

(7) when conscripts are discharged from active service and sign up for the examination of civil servants or apply for the post of institution units, the time of active military service shall be taken into account of working time and their service experiences shall be regarded as grassroots working experiences;and

(8) other preferential treatments stipulated by the State and the Province.

Article 36 During their military service as conscripts, the People’s governments of the county (city or district) which approved the enlistment of graduates and undergraduates from institutions of higher learning enlisted from this province shall give them bonus every year according to the following proportions:

(1) the bonus for undergraduates of associate degrees shall be no less than 40% of that for the family of conscripts enlisted by the county (city or district) and that for  graduates shall be no less than 50%;and

(2) the bonus for undergraduates of or above bachelor degrees shall be no less than 50% of that for the family of conscripts enlisted by the county (city or district) and that for graduates shall be no less than 60%;

Article 37 Wherea conscript receives titles of honor, performs meritorious deeds or is rewarded, the People’s governments of the county (city or district) which approved enlistment shall grant meritorious deeds award;

(1) for those with the Class One Merit Citation or titles of honor rewarded by the level above major military commands, it shall be no less than 50% of the standard of preferential treatment bonus of the sameyear;

(2) for those with the Class Two Merit Citation, it shall be no less than 40% of the standard of preferential treatment bonus of the sameyear;

(3) for those with the Class Three Merit Citation, it shall be no less than 20% of the standard of preferential treatment bonus of that year;and

(4) for the outstanding soldier, it shall be no less than 10% of the standard of preferential treatment bonus of the sameyear.

Article 38 Local People’s governments at or above the county level shall place the soldiers discharged from the active service in multi-channels and various ways according to relevant stipulations of the state and the province.

Government organs, public organizations, enterprises and institutions shall have the obligation of receiving and placing the discharged soldiers who meet the conditions for placement and accept the placement task assigned by the local people’s governments.

Relevant preferential policies shall be formulated in the recruitment of civil servants and discharged soldiers who meet the requirements shall be recruited. Whenemploying staffthe institutions shall give priority to discharged soldiers under the same conditions. When institutions of higher learning admit students and state-owned companies employ staff, they shall according to the number and requirements of the posts and specific situations of discharged soldiers who meet the conditions, decide a certain proportion of vacancies for targeted students and staff. When grassroots full-time people’s armed forces department recruits cadres, it shall give priority to the discharged soldiers who meet the working conditions.

Enterprises shall be encouraged to employ discharged soldiers who look for jobs by themselves. Enterprises which accept and place discharged soldiers shall enjoy favorable taxation policies according to relevant stipulations of the State.

Article 39 The People’s governments of the county (city or district) which approved enlistment shall grant discharged conscripts who look for jobs by themselves a sum of economic subsidy once for all. That for discharged non-commissioned officers who look for jobs by themselves shall be increased proportionately according to their terms of active service from the year they became non-commissioned officers. The detailed standards shall be formulated by the provincial People’s government.

Article 40 Thesoldiers discharged from active service who look for jobs by themselves shall enjoy the following preferential treatments:

(1) receiving educational training and technical training organized by local People’s governments free of charge, enjoying subsidies of degree education, accepting relevant diplomas and professional qualification certificates having passed the exams and being recommended to employment;

(2) their terms of military service being regarded as terms of paying social security insurance and added into the terms of actually paying insurance;

(3) those engaged in the individual businessenjoying the taxation deduction and policies such as small-sum loans and starting-business support;and

(4) other preferential treatments stipulated by the State and the Province.

Article 41 When the soldier was accepted by a institution of higher learning or an undergraduate of ainstitution of higher learning before his/her enlistment, the school shall preserve his status as a student of the institution of higher learning for two years after he/sheis discharged. When the student requires to go to school or resume his/her study after he/she is discharged, the original school shall accept him/her and he/she shall enjoy the following preferential treatments:

(1) after the newly-accepted freshman and the undergraduate of a institution of higher learning who is enlisted in this province enters school or resumes his/her study, the government shall cover the tuition fees, accommodation fees and living subsidies for the rest of his study, and the People’s government of the county (city or district) which approved enlistment shall grant subsidies according to the local standard of once-for-all economic subsidies for discharged soldiers who look for jobs by themselves. The student who enjoyed excellent student scholarship before his /her enlistment shall continue to enjoy it after resuming his/her study, and the scholarship shall be upgraded to a higher level (exclusive for the first-class scholarship);

(2) for the graduate of a institution of higher learning enlisted to serve conscription who takes the national entrance examinations for graduate study within three years after he/she is discharged from the service and the student of the institution of higher learning enlisted to serve conscription who finishes the undergraduate study after he/she is discharged from the service and takes the national entrance examinations for graduate study within three years, they shall be given additional scores to the total scores in the first-round test according to the stipulations of the State and the province, and college graduates who are rewarded Merit Citation at or above the Class Two shall be admitted to graduate schools without examinations (first-round test);

(3) those with associate degrees such as higher vocational education, adult education or self-taught education may apply for adult education at institutions of higher learning without examination, and those with a high school diploma or a degree of the same level may apply for adult education at higher vocational institutions without examination;

(4) they are exempted from tests in courses such as public physical education, military techniques and military theory and graded “fairness” or given credits directly;

(5) the newly-accepted freshman and the undergraduate of a institution of higher learning from other provinces but enlisted in this province enters school or resumes his/her study and later is accepted by the employment unit of this province, he/she may go through settlement procedures in the county (city or district) where his/her unit is located;and

(6) other preferential treatments prescribed by the State and the Province.

Article 42 Thedischarged soldiers who meet the requirements for job arrangement shall be granted living subsidies by the local People’s government which is responsible for placement according to the standard not lower than the local minimum living standard when they wait for placement. Detailed standards shall be formulated by the local People’s governments.

Article VII Legal Liabilities

Article 43 If any citizen who has the duties of performing the military service conducts any of the following acts, he/she shall be ordered to make correction within a prescribed time limit by the People’s government of the county (city or district); if he/she fails to make correction within the prescribed time limit, he/she shall be compelled to fulfill his/her duty of performing the military service and a fine of not less than two times but not more than eight times of the standard of preferential treatments bonus for conscripts’ family may be imposed;

(1) refusing to register for military service or evading such registration and physical examination;

(2) hiding truth and practicing fraud in the physical examination, political quality examination and interview and investigationduring the enlistment; or

(3) refusing to be called into active service or evading such service.

If he/she conducts the act prescribed in the third item of the previous paragraph and refuses to make correction, he/she shall not be employed as a civil servant, an employee of institutions and state-owned companies or a worker of a unit which is managed in reference to the civil servant law and shall not leave the country (go abroad) or be admitted to schools within two years.

Article 44 If any one evades military service after enlistment causes serious impacts and is rejected by military organs or expelled by armed forces, the people’s government of the county (city or district) shall get rid of his/her family’s treatments as military families, and take over all the preferential treatment bonus; relevant units shall not resume his/her work, post or study; he/she shall not be employed as civil servant or worker of a unit which is managed in reference to the civil servant Law and leave the country (go abroad) within two years. The people’s government of the county (city or district) may impose a fine of no less than five times but no more than eight times of the standard of preferential treatments bonus for conscripts’ family in the same year at that placeon anyone who is treated as being rejected by military organs.

Article 45 For anyone, in violation of the provisions in these Regulations, who lends, alters, counterfeits or fakes military service certificates, a fine of not less than RMB 1,000 yuan but not more than RMB 5,000 yuan shall be imposed by the People’s government of the county (city or district).

Article 46 If the relevant unit conducts any of the following acts, the local People’s governments at or above the county level shall order it to make correction within a prescribed time limit; if it fails to make correction within the prescribed time limit, a fine of not less than RMB 20,000 yuan but not more than RMB 100,000 yuan shall be imposed; a fine of not less than RMB 2,000 yuan but not more than RMB 20,000 yuan shall be imposed on any person in charge of the unit directly or other persons responsible directly:

(1) refusing to accept or failing to complete the enlistment task according to stipulations;

(2) refusing to cooperate with relevant units to carry out military service registration, political quality examination and physical examination for citizens at proper ages;

(3) preventing citizens at proper ages from taking part in military service registration and physical examination or being enlisted;

(4) hiding truth, practicing fraud or taking other measures to protect citizens who refuse to be called into active service or evade such service; or

(5) going through procedures of leaving the country (going abroad), employment, going to school, resuming his work, post or study for those who fail to take part in military service registration, refuse to be called into active service or evade such service or are rejected or expelled by armed forces because of evading military service after enlistment.

Article 47 If any unit, in violation of the provisions in these Regulations, fails to regard the period when citizens at proper ages go through military service registration, physical examinations, political quality examinations and interviews and investigations as attendance or terminate their labor contracts because of the said reasons, human resources and social security departments of local People’s governments at or above the county level shall order it to make correction within a prescribed time limit; if it fails to make correction within a prescribed time limit, a fine of not less than RMB 5,000 yuan but not more than RMB 50,000 yuan shall be imposed.

Article 48 If any relevant unit, in violation of the provisions in these Regulations, fails to accept the task of placing soldiers discharged from military service assigned by the local People’s government, competent department of the placement of soldiers discharged from the military service of the local People’s government shall order it to make correction within a prescribed time limit; if it fails to make correction within a prescribed time limit, the person directly in charge or persons directly responsible of government organs, social organizations or institutions shall be given sanctions. A fine, which is calculated by timing the number of the involved soldiers discharged from the service and ten times of the average salary of local urban and rural employees in the previous year, shall be imposed on enterprises and the acceptance unit and the person directly in charge shall be criticized.

Article 49 If any person who conducts enlistment work abuses power, engages in malpractices for personal gains, neglects duties and takes bribes shall be given sanctions by his/her unit; where a crime is constituted, the criminal liabilities shall be investigated according to law.

If the accepting (leading) personnel of armed forces violates laws and regulations, the enlistment office of local People’s governments at or above the county level shall notify its armed forces for handling.

Article 50 If any of the following acts constitutes an act in violation of security administration, public security organs shall give a punishment; where a crime is constituted, the criminal liabilities shall be investigated according to law:

(1) hampering persons who conduct enlistment work from performing official duties according to law;

(2) preventing citizens from participating in military service registration, physical examination or enlistment by means of fighting or restricting their freedom;or

(3) other acts which disturb the order of enlistment work.

Article 51 Military organs shall work with departments such as public securities, civil affairs, health and family planning, education and human resources and social security of local People’s governments at or above the county level to deal with the administrative sanctions implemented by local people’s governments at or above the county level according to these Regulations.

Article 52 Where local people’s government of the county (city or district) executes administrative sanctions on citizens according to the provisions of Article 43 and Article 44 of these Regulations, military organs of the county (city or district) shall provide citizens’ information of administrative sanctions to public credit and information system.

Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions

Article 53 The citizens at proper age as referred to in these Regulations are male citizens who are aged between eighteen and twenty four by December 31 of the same year. The enlisted citizens are citizens atproper ageswho have been through military service registration and passed preliminary tests. The preliminarily enlisted targets are enlisted citizens who passed physical examination by eyes, investigation into disease history, political and cultural preliminary scrutiny, meet the basic political, physical and cultural requirements for new soldiers and are selected to take part in physical examination for enlisted soldiers in the same year.

The enlistment of women citizens for active service shall be carried outaccording to relevant stipulations of the State.

Article 54 Theinstitutions of higher learning as referred to in these Regulations are the full-time public institutions of higher learning, privateinstitutions of higher learning and independent colleges whose establishment are approved of by relevant stipulations of the state and implement higher curricular education.

Article 55 Enlistment of non-commissioned officers shall be organized and implemented according to relevant stipulations of the State and the Province.

Detailed measures of enlistment of graduates and undergraduates of advanced technical schools, technology colleges concerning enlistment registration, body examination, political quality examination and approval and decision-making shall be implemented according to those at institutions of higher learning.

Article 56 These Regulations shall enter into effect as of August 1, 2015. Regulations of Jiangsu Province on the Recruitment of Soldiers, adopted at the Seventeenth Session of the Standing Committee of the Eighth People’s Congress of Jiangsu Province on October19, 1995, revised at the Eighteenth Sessionof the Standing Committee of the Tenth People’s Congress of Jiangsu Province on September 23, 2005 shall be abolished simultaneously.