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Interim Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Work of the Placement of Soldiers Released from Military Service

Interim Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Work of the Placement of Soldiers Released from Military Service
 

(Promulgated on October 16th, 2002 by Decree No.126 of the Shanghai Municipal People' s Government)

Chapter I  General Provisions

Article 1 (Purpose and Basis)
With a view to well completing the job of placing soldiers released from military service and safeguarding their legitimate rights and interests, these Procedures are formulated in accordance with the "Law of the People' s Republic of China on Military Service" , the "Regulations on the Placement of Demobilized Compulsory Servicemen" promulgated by the State Council, and the "Regulations of Shanghai Municipality on Conscription" , and in the light of the actual circumstances of this Municipality.
Article 2 (Scope of Application)
These Procedures are applicable to the acceptance and placement in this Municipality of soldiers released from military service (hereinafter referred to as ex-soldiers) in the Chinese People' s Liberation Army and the Chinese People' s Armed Police.
Article 3 (Meaning)
The ex-soldiers as referred to in these Procedures include:
(1) Demobilized compulsory servicemen,
(2) Demobilized non-commissioned officers, and
(3) Non-commissioned officers transferred to civilian work.
Article 4 (Functional Departments)
The work of placement of ex-soldiers shall be conducted under the leadership of the people' s governments at various levels.
The Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the Municipal Placement Department) is the competent administrative department of the work of placement of ex-soldiers. The district / county civil affairs departments (hereinafter referred to as district / county placement departments) shall be specifically responsible for the work of placement of ex-soldiers within their respective administrative areas.
The administrative departments of labour security, personnel, public security, taxation, conscription, industry and commerce administration, and education, etc., shall do well the work relevant to the placement of ex-soldiers in accordance with their respective functions and duties.
Article 5 (Principle of Placement)
The placement of ex-soldiers shall be conducted in the principle of "where from, where to" and through the method of mandatory placement combined with two-way choice by ex-soldiers and accepting units.
The ex-soldiers shall be encouraged to seek employment on their own.

Chapter II  Acceptance

Article 6 (Administration of Acceptance)
Soldiers approved to be released from active military service under the provisions of the State Council and the Central Military Commission of the CPC shall be accepted and placed by the municipal and district / county placement departments if they meet the conditions of acceptance.
Ex-soldiers who were conscripted in this Municipality shall generally be accepted by the district / county placement departments in the original conscription areas, or by the district / county placement departments in the areas of their parents' or spouses' registered permanent residence at the time of their release.
Ex-soldiers who were not conscripted in this Municipality shall be accepted in accordance with the following provisions:
(1) Unmarried non-commissioned officers transferred to civilian work, unmarried demobilized non-commissioned officers who were conscripted not at jobs and demobilized compulsory servicemen who were conscripted not at jobs, whose parents had their registered permanent residence moved to this Municipality during the time of their military service, shall be accepted by the district / county placement departments in the areas of their parents' registered permanent residence;
(2) Demobilized non-commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers transferred to civilian work shall be accepted by the district / county placement departments in the areas of their spouses' registered permanent residence if their spouses have registered permanent residence in this Municipality and if they have been married for not less than two years; and
(3) In other special cases as provided by the state, the ex-soldiers who are approved by the Municipal Placement Department to be accepted by this Municipality shall be accepted by the district / county placement departments designated by the Municipal Placement Department.
Article 7 (Acceptance Procedure)
Ex-soldiers shall register at the district / county placement departments in charge of acceptance within 30 days of approval to be released from military service by the military units.
The district / county placement departments shall complete the examination within 30 days of receiving the soldiers' files, and issue a written notice of acceptance to those soldiers who meet the conditions of acceptance, and inform in writing those soldiers of non-acceptance if they do not meet the conditions of acceptance, and have their files returned to the original military units.
After receiving the written notice of acceptance, the ex-soldiers shall go through the relevant procedure at the district / county placement departments in accordance with the requirements indicated by the written notice. The district/county placement departments shall handle the case within 3 working days.
Article 8 (Procedure for Registering Permanent Residence)
Ex-soldiers shall go through the procedure for registering permanent residence at the designated departments of public security with the testimonials issued by the district / county placement departments.
Article 9 (Special Provisions on Registering Non-agricultural Permanent Residence)
Non-commissioned officers transferred to civilian work may register non-agricultural permanent residence after release from military service if they had registered agricultural permanent residence before conscription.
Non-commissioned officers who had registered agricultural permanent residence before conscription may register non-agricultural permanent residence if they meet the requirements of transference to civilian work and have had their request for transference approved by the military unit.
Article 10 (Special Provisions for Change from Agricultural to Non-agricultural Registered Permanent Residence)
Demobilized compulsory servicemen and demobilized non-commissioned officers may, with the approval of the district / county placement departments, change to non-agricultural registered permanent residence if they meet one of the following requirements:
(1) Those who have individually been awarded honorary titles during service by the greater military areas or higher military units, or have won Merit Citation Class II or above;
(2) Those who have individually won Merit Citation Class III during service for fighting against enemies, for rushing to deal with emergencies and provide disaster relief, and for doing boldly what is righteous, or have won twice the Merit Citations Class III for other reasons;
(3) Those who have become disabled for engaging in military action, or on duty, or for disease, and have been established by the military unit as Disability Class III or above, or have been appraised by the department of work ability appraisal in this Municipality as having partly or largely lost the ability to work although they have not been established as disabled by the military unit;
(4) Those whose families have changed to non-agricultural registered permanent residence during their service in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and this Municipality;
(5) Those who are orphans of martyrs or whose brother or sister has succeeded them in serving in the army;
(6) Those whose parents had both died before conscription; and
(7) Trainee pilots who have been released from military service for being physically unfit for flying and diagnosed as such by an army hospital above the regiment level and testified by the aviation school.

Chapter III  Placement

Article 11 (Placement Duty of the Units)
All departments, organizations, enterprises and institutions (hereinafter referred to as units) in this Municipality, with no distinction of system of ownership and organizational form, have the duty to place ex-soldiers.
Article 12 (Ways of Placement)
All the following groups of ex-soldiers, excluding those who shall not be arranged for employment as provided by the State and this Municipality, or those who will seek employment on their own, shall be arranged for employment by the district / county placement departments:
(1) Non-commissioned officers transferred to civilian work;
(2) Demobilized compulsory servicemen and demobilized non-commissioned officers who had non-agricultural registered permanent residence before conscription; and
(3) Demobilized compulsory servicemen and demobilized non-commissioned officers who have changed from agricultural registered permanent residence to non-agricultural registered permanent residence and have won a Merit Citation Class II and above, or have been established as Disability Class II or Class III during service.
The following groups of ex-soldiers shall be properly arranged for their production and living by the township and town people' s governments:
(1) Demobilized compulsory servicemen and demobilized non-commissioned officers who have registered agricultural permanent residence;
(2) Demobilized compulsory servicemen and demobilized non-commissioned officers who have changed from registered agricultural permanent residence to registered non-agricultural permanent residence, except those as provided by item (3) in the preceding clause; and
(3) Demobilized non-commissioned officers who had registered agricultural permanent residence and who now meet the requirements of transference to civilian work and can register non-agricultural permanent residence.
Article 13 (Arranging Quotas for Employment)
In order to arrange the employment of the ex-soldiers in the current year, the municipal placement department shall propose the quotas for arranging employment of ex-soldiers for districts and counties in the current year after considering such factors as the economic development level on the basis of the numbers of workers and staff members in employment at the end of the preceding year. These quotas shall be issued for implementation after approval by the Municipal People' s Government.
The district and county people' s governments shall arrange for the quotas to be implemented in the relevant units within their respective administered areas.
Article 14 (Order of Arranging Employment)
Ex-soldiers shall be arranged for employment in the following order:
(1) Ex-soldiers and the accepting units shall make two-way choices within the prescribed periods;
(2) Ex-soldiers who have not been able to seek employment in any of the accepting units by two-way choice shall be given a once-only mandatory placement by the district / county placement departments where the ex-soldiers have registered permanent residence; and
(3) Mandatory placement across districts and counties shall be organized for implementation by the municipal placement department.
Article 15 (Seeking Employment on their Own)
Ex-soldiers who meet the requirements of arranged employment but desire to seek employment on their own, shall make the demand before the municipal or district / county placement departments have determined the units which are to accept them.
The district and county people' s governments shall provide lump-sum economic subsidy and issue seeking-employment-on-one' s-own certificates to the ex-soldiers who desire to seek employment on their own. The specific standards and the method of granting economic subsidy shall be formulated by the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau and the Municipal Finance Bureau.
The ex-soldiers who seek employment on their own shall register for labour manuals at the labour departments with the seeking-employment-on-one' s-own certificates.
Article 16 (Resuming Employment and Posts)
Ex-soldiers who were conscripted in employment may resume employment and their posts at the original units. If the original unit has merged with other unit(s), the merged unit shall allow them to resume employment and posts. If the original unit has split into several ones, the ex-soldiers may choose to resume employment and posts at one of them. Those who do not ask for the resumption of employment and posts shall be arranged according to Article 14 of these Procedures.
Article 17 (Resuming Schooling)
Ex-soldiers who were conscripted before finishing schooling may resume schooling at the original schools. Those who do not ask for the resumption of schooling shall be arranged according to Article 14 of these Procedures.
Those who choose to resume schooling shall be regarded as those who choose to seek employment on their own and shall be granted lump-sum economic subsidy.
Article 18 (Placement of Disabled and Sick Ex-soldiers)
Ex-soldiers who have been disabled in military action, on duty or for diseases during service shall be placed in accordance with the following provisions:
(1) Ex-soldiers who have been established as Special Class Disability or Disability Class I shall be placed in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State;
(2) Ex-soldiers who have been established as Disability Class II or III shall be given mandatory placement with district / county placement departments issuing the special quotas for arranged employment. The accepting units shall provide jobs which these soldiers are able to undertake.
Article 19 (Handling Cases of not Accepting Placement)
Ex-soldiers who refuse to get introduction letters of placement, or who have got the letters but do not report to the accepting unit as provided, shall not be placed for the second time and their files shall be transferred by the placement departments to the sub-district office or the township/town people' s governments where they have registered permanent residence.

Chapter IV   Treatments

Article 20 (Employment Treatments)
Ex-soldiers who have been arranged for employment shall enjoy the following treatments:
(1) The unit which accepts ex-soldiers shall include the ex-soldiers' length of military service and the time needed for placement into their consecutive length of employment at the unit;
(2) Their treatments of wage, welfare and housing shall be no lower than those of staff and workers "doing the same type of job, at the same type of post and having the same length of service" ;
(3) Ex-soldiers who cannot take up the jobs as scheduled for reasons of the accepting unit shall be given monthly living allowances at the rate of the average monthly wage of the staff and workers with the same length of service at the same unit from the month when the municipal or district / county placement departments issued the introduction letters of placement;
(4) The unit which accepts ex-soldiers shall provide not less than six months of time for adaptation to these ex-soldiers and shall not implement the systems of probation or apprenticeship; and
(5) Ex-soldiers who have been established as Disability Class II or Class III shall enjoy the treatment of staff and workers suffering from industrial injury in accordance with the provisions of the State and the Municipality.
Article 21 (Treatments in the Period of Pending Placement)
Ex-soldiers who have been arranged for employment shall be given living allowances not lower than the subsistence level of this Municipality by the district / county placement departments in the period of pending placement.
Article 22 (Treatments of Social Insurance)
The basic social insurance ties of ex-soldiers shall be continued or established in accordance with the provisions. Their length of military service and time waiting for placement shall be included into the accumulated years of payment for the basic social insurance together with the actual years of payment.
Article 23 (Treatments of Placement by the Township/town)
Demobilized compulsory servicemen and demobilized junior non-commissioned officers who were conscripted in the rural areas shall retain their contracted and private plots of land during service; non-commissioned officers at the middle level or above shall be reassigned their contracted and private lots of land if they do not have contracted and private plots of land after they are demobilized.
Ex-soldiers with registered agricultural permanent residence who have actual housing difficulty shall be given appropriate economic subsidy by the district / county placement departments.
Article 24 (Preferential Treatments in Examinations for Employment or Enrolment)
Ex-soldiers who enter themselves for examinations to be employed as civil servants within one year of releasing shall be given preferential treatment in employment.
Ex-Soldiers who enter themselves for examinations for institutions of higher learning or secondary vocational schools in this Municipality within one year of releasing shall be given preferential treatment in enrolment. The specific procedures shall be formulated by the Municipal Education Commission and the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau.
Article 25 (Participation in Vocational Training)
If ex-soldiers who are arranged for employment participate in vocational training in the period of pending placement, or ex-soldiers who have registered agricultural permanent residence participate in vocational training within one year of releasing, they shall be given appropriate economic subsidy by the district / county placement departments.
Article 26 (Starting one' s Own Business)
Ex-soldiers who desire to start their own businesses or run small privately owned industrial or commercial enterprises shall be given preferential treatment in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and this Municipality.

Chapter V  Legal Liabilities

Article 27 (Penalties for Unit' s Violation of these Procedures)
Any unit that violates these Procedures by refusing to fulfill the placement quotas, or by refusing to accept ex-soldiers shall be ordered to make rectifications within the prescribed time limit by the municipal or district / county placement departments. The unit that fails to make rectifications within the prescribed time limit shall be subjected to a fine of between not less than 20, 000 and not more than 200, 000 yuan, and the person(s) in charge of the unit and the person(s) directly liable for the matter may be subjected to a fine of between not less than 2, 000 and not more than 20, 000 yuan.
Article 28 (Penalties on Law Enforcement Personnel who Violate the Law)
The administrative law enforcement departments and personnel shall conduct administration in accordance with the law and enforce the law impartially. Those who have neglected duties, abused power, acted wrongfully for selfish ends, extorted and taken bribes, or perverted the law, shall be given administrative punishment by the units they belong to. The personnel whose act constitutes a crime shall be prosecuted for criminal liability in accordance with law.

Chapter VI   Supplementary Provisions

Article 29 (Funds)
The operational funds needed for placing ex-soldiers shall be included into the financial budgets of the governments at all levels.
Article 30 (Effective Date)
These Procedures shall become effective on November 16, 2002. The "Rules for the Implementation of the Regulations of Shanghai Municipality on the Placement of Demobilized Compulsory Servicemen" promulgated by the Shanghai Municipal People' s Government shall be repealed on the same date.


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