Regulations on the Recruitment of Soldiers (2001 Revision)

Regulations on the Recruitment of Soldiers (2001 Revision) Regulations on the Recruitment of Soldiers (Promulgated by the State Council, the Central Military Commission on Oct. 24, 1985, and amended according to the Decision of the State Council, the Central Military Commission on Amending the Regulations on the Recruitment of Soldiers on Set.5, 2001) Chapter 1 General Provisions Article 1 These Regulations are formulated according to relevant provisions of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Military Service . Article 2 The recruitment of new soldiers is an important work of strengthening the military construction and protecting the socialist country, so the people's governments at all levels and the military departments at all levels shall carry it out earnestly. Article 3 The male citizens that have reached 18-year-old before Dec.31 of each year shall be recruited for active service. Those that haven't been recruited that year may still be recruited for active service before they are 22-year-old. Female citizens may be recruited for active service according to the army's need in accordance with the preceding paragraph. Based on the principle of the army's need and one's free will, the male and female citizens that have reached 17-year-old yet not 18-year-old before Dec.31 of that year may be recruited for active service. The citizens that have serious physical defects or serious disabilities to perform military service shall be exempted from recruitment. If a citizen that shall be recruited is the only labor to support the family or is a student studying in a full-time school, this citizen may be suspended from recruitment. Those that have been deprived of political rights according to law shall not be recruited. Those that are held in custody for investigation, prosecution, trial, or that have been sentenced to imprisonment, detention, public surveillance and that are serving sentences shall not be recruited. Article 4 The number, requirements and time of the recruitment of soldiers of the whole country of each year shall be provided by the recruitment order of the State Council and the Central Military Commission. Article 5 All provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall arrange the recruitment work of their respective areas according to the recruitment order of the State Council and the Central Military Commission. When assigning recruitment tasks, all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, according to the number, quality of the citizens to be recruited and according to the production and living conditions of the masses of the localities, make overall plans by taking all factors into consideration, assign tasks reasonably and ensure the recruitment of special soldiers in priority. The recruitment may be based on regions or counties in turns; for the regions or counties that are seriously affected by disasters, the recruitment tasks may be reduced or exempted according to the circumstances. Article 6 The state shall, according to the mobilization need, divide the recruitment areas of artificers in the whole country in a planned way. All provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities under the Central Government and armies shall recruit and renew artificers according to the areas divided. Article 7 The implementation of the recruitment work of the whole country shall be organized by the Ministry of National Defense under the leadership of the State Council and the Central Military Commission, and the specific work shall be undertaken by the recruitment office of the Ministry of National Defense. All military commands shall be responsible for the recruitment work of their respective areas, and the specific work shall be undertaken by the recruitment offices of the military commands. The provincial military commands, (garrison commands, guard commands), military subareas (garrison commands) and the people's armed forces departments of counties, autonomous counties, cities, and municipal districts (hereinafter referred to as counties, cities) shall be the departments of military service of the people's governments at the corresponding levels concurrently. The local people's governments at the level of county and above shall organize the departments of military service and the departments of public security, public health and other relevant departments to form the recruitment offices, which shall be responsible for the recruitment work of their respective areas. State organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions, and the people's governments of townships, autonomous townships, towns, and subdistrict offices shall, according to the arrangements and requirements of the counties and cities, handle the recruitment work of their respective units and areas. Article 8 The recruitment office at all levels shall be responsible for the direct recruitment of volunteers from non-military departments. Article 9 All units shall carry out in depth the work of educating the youth of patriotism, revolutionary heroism and performing military services according to law, earnestly enlighten the citizens to be recruited from the perspectives of ideology and politics, and encourage them to respond actively to the recruitment for the purpose of protecting our socialist country. Article 10 Those that have made notable achievements in the recruitment work shall be honored and awarded. Chapter 2 Military Service Registration Article 11 The departments of military service of counties and cities shall, before Set.30 of each year, organize the grass-root units to make military service registration of the male citizens that have reached 18 year-old before Dec.31 of that year. The male citizens that have reached the age of military service shall make military service registration according to the notification of the departments of military service of the counties and cities. If the citizen can't go to make the registration in person for special reasons after receiving the notification, he can entrust his relatives or the unit he belongs to in written form to make the registration for him. Article 12 The state organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions, and the people's governments of townships, autonomous townships, towns and the subdistrict offices shall, according to the arrangements of the departments of military service of the counties and cities, be responsible for organizing the male citizens of the right age of their respective units and areas to make the military service registration and to fill in the Military Service Registration Form, determine the persons that shall perform military service, be exempted from military service and may not perform military service according to law, and shall report to the departments of military service of the counties and cities for approval. Those that have gone through military service registration and pass initial examination are called as citizens to be recruited. Article 13 The state organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions, and the people's governments of townships, autonomous townships, towns and the subdistrict offices shall, according to the arrangements and requirements of the departments of military service of the counties and cities, make visual examination of physique, investigation of medical history and initial examination of political and cultural backgrounds of the citizens to be recruited of their respective units and areas, and select the citizens to be recruited that are in good political status, good physique and well educated to be the objects of predetermined recruitment of that year, and shall notify those citizens. Article 14 The recruitment offices and grass-root units of the counties and cities shall strengthen the management, education and investigation of the citizens to be recruited that have been predetermined for recruitment, thus to get to know their basic information well. If the citizens to be recruited of predetermined recruitment have left the counties and cities where their permanent residence are located, they shall report to the grass-root people's armed forces departments of the places where they are located their whereabouts and contact methods, and shall return for recruitment according to the notification of the departments of military service in time. The state organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions that the citizens to be recruited of predetermined recruitment belong to shall supervise and urge them to respond to the recruitment on time, and shall offer convenience for them. Chapter 3 Physical Examination Article 15 When the recruitment starts, the recruitment offices of the counties and cities shall, according to the recruitment tasks, arrange the physical examination of the citizens to be recruited in a planned way. Article 16 The physical examination of the citizens to be recruited shall be uniformly organized by the recruitment offices of the counties and cities, and the administrative departments of public health at the same level shall be responsible for the specific work, they may designate the hospitals to make the physical examination, either may they uniformly transfer medical personnel to form the physical exami......