(Promulgated by Decree No. 316 of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China on September 5, 2001, and effective as of the date of promulgation)

The State Council decides to make the following amendments to the Regulations on Conscription Work for the purpose of improving the system for conscription work in China:

1. Article 3, paragraph 3 is revised as follows: "To meet the needs of the armed forces and on the principle of voluntary participation, male and female citizens who have reached 17 years of age but have not yet reached 18 years of age by December 31of a certain year may be enlisted for active service."

Paragraph 5 is revised as follows: "Persons deprived of political rights by law shall not be enlisted. A citizen shall not be enlisted if he is detained for investigation, prosecution or trial, or if he has been sentenced to imprisonment, criminal detention or public surveillance and is serving his sentence."

2. Article 6 is revised as follows: "The State, in light of the needs of enlistment, may divide in a planned way the country into various regions for enlistment of recruits for technical soldiers. Provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and the military units shall handle the enlistment and replenishment of recruits for technical soldiers in accordance with the designation of enlistment regions."

3. Article 6 is revised as follows: "The Defense Ministry, under the leadership of the State Council and the Central Military Commission, shall implement the conscription work of the whole country, and the concrete work shall be undertaken by the Conscription Office of the Defense Ministry.

"Major military commands shall be in charge of the conscription work of their respective areas, and the concrete work shall be undertaken by the conscription offices of the commands.

"Provincial military commands (garrison commands), military sub-commands (garrison commands), and arm-the-people departments of counties, autonomous counties, cities and municipal districts (hereinafter referred to as the counties and cities) concurrently function as the organs in charge of military service affairs of people's governments at the respective same level. The local people's governments at or above the county level shall organize organs in charge of military service affairs, departments of public security, health and other departments concerned, to constitute conscription offices to handle the enlistment work of their respective regions.

"The organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions and people's governments of townships, nationality townships and towns, and subdistrict offices of cities, shall handle the enlistment work of their respective units and areas in accordance with the arrangements and requirements of the counties and cities."

4. One article is added as Article 8: "The work of directly enlisting volunteer soldiers from non-military departments shall be handled by conscription offices at various levels."

5. One article is added as Article 10: "Those who have made outstanding achievements in enlistment work shall be commended and rewarded."

6. Article 9 is revised as Article 11, and one paragraph is added as paragraph 2: "Male citizens that reach the age for military service shall make military service registration according to the notice of the organs in charge of military service affairs of counties and cities. Those who, due to special reasons, cannot personally go to make the registration upon the receipt of the notice may entrust in written form their relatives or the units to which they belong with registration on their behalf."

7. One article is added as Article 14: "Conscription offices of the counties and cities and units at the grassroots level shall strengthen the administration, education and inspection of the predetermined citizens eligible for enlistment, and know well their basic conditions.

"Where predetermined citizens for enlistment are to leave the counties and cities of their registered permanent residence for a period of one month or longer, they shall report their whereabouts and the ways of communications to the arm-the-people departments at the grassroots level, and shall return in time for enlistment in accordance with the notice of the organs in charge of military service affairs.

"The organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions to which the predetermined citizens for enlistment belong shall urge them to be enlisted on time, and shall provide conveniences."

8. Article 13 is revised as Article 16: "Physical examination of the citizens eligible for enlistment shall be uniformly organized by conscription offices of the counties and cities, and the departments of public health administration at the same level shall be in the charge of the specific work; hospitals may be appointed for the physical examination, or medical workers may be unitarily seconded to form physical examination teams and to set up physical examination stations."

9. Article 16 is revised as Article 19: "Conscription offices of the counties and cities shall organize random physical examination among the citizens eligible for enlistment who are to be approved for active military service, and the citizens randomly examined shall usually be no less than one third of all the recruits. If a comparatively large number of unqualified persons are found through the selective examination, all the citizens eligible for enlistment who are to be approved for active service shall be reexamined. All the persons intended to be submarine crewmen, surface ship crewmen, tank crewmen, parachutists and other posts that have special requirements on physique conditions shall be reexamined under the unitary organization of conscription offices of the counties and cities."

10. Article 17 is revised as Article 20: " The examination of political background of citizens eligible for enlistment shall be uniformly organized by conscription offices of the counties and cities, and the public security organs shall be in the charge of the specific work, and other units concerned shall give their assistance."

11. Article 20 is revised as Article 23: "When examining and approving the recruits, conscription offices of the counties and cities shall conduct an overall measurement of the citizens eligible for enlistment that are qualified in physical examination and examination of political background, and select and approve only those who are ideologically and politically sound, healthy and well-educated to perform active service."

12. One article is added as Article 24: "Sons and daughters, sisters and brothers of revolutionary martyrs and wounded and disabled revolutionary servicemen, if they are willing to be enlisted and are qualified for enlistment, shall have priority in being approved for active service.

13. One article is added as Article 25: "Students studying in full-time higher education institutions whose enlistment may be deferred by law, if they are willing to be enlisted and are qualified for enlistment, may be approved for active service, and the education institutions where they formerly study shall reserve their registration of students status, and allow them to resume their studies when they discharge from the military service.

14. Article 21 is revised as Article 26: "Conscription offices of the counties and cities shall handle the enrollment procedures of citizens eligible for enlistment who are approved for active service, issue them the notice of enrollment of eligible citizens, and notify the organs in charge of permanent residence registration of their registered permanent residence places. Their family members shall, on the strength of the notice of enrollment, go to the organs in charge of permanent residence registration of their registered permanent residence places for withdrawing the permanent residence registration of the citizens eligible for enlistment, and enjoy the treatments for servicemen's family members."

15. Article 24 is revised as Article 29: "When handing-over of recruits is conducted by way of delivery by the personnel sent by the counties and cities, the following work shall be done well:

(1) When the enlistment starts, the military forces, in terms of the units at the corps level (at the general corps level in case of the armed police forces, the same below), shall send over liaison teams to take charge of the liaison with the conscription offices of the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, deciding through consultation on such relevant matters as destinations for the recruits delivered by the counties and cities, transportation en route and handing over matters;

(2) The sub-allotment of recruits shall be comparatively concentrated, and the military units to be replenished with the recruits enlisted from a county or a city shall not be more than three divisions or brigades;

(3) Conscription offices of the counties and cities shall, in accordance with the arrangements of conscription offices of higher levels, designate right-hand personnel to take charge of the delivery of recruits to the divisions or brigades of the military forces; the ratio between the personnel for delivering the recruits and the recruits shall be about one to thirty;

(4) Conscription offices of the counties and cities shall, after the recruits are assembled, group the recruits according to their destinations and number, and conduct necessary military knowledge, security knowledge and ideological education to the recruits;

(5) After accompanying the recruits to the military units, the personnel for delivering the recruits shall make introduction to the military units on such matters as the political, physical and cultural conditions, and the strong features of the recruits, and return in time after completing the handing-over procedures;

(6) When the recruits arrive, the military units shall give a warm reception, and make appropriate arrangements for the board and lodging of the recruits and the personnel for delivering the recruits."

16. Article 25 is revised as Article 30: "When handing-over of recruits is conducted by way of the counties and cities organizing the recruits to report for duty to the military units by themselves, the following work shall be done well:

(1) When the enlistment starts, the military forces in terms of the units at the corps level shall send over liaison teams to take charge of the liaison with the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, consulting on the matters relating to the reporting for duty of the recruits by themselves;

(2) Conscription offices of the counties and cities shall, in accordance with the arrangements of conscription offices of higher levels, decide through consultation with the liaison teams sent by the military units on such relevant matters as the places for the recruits to report for duty, ways of communications and the reception of recruits; group the recruits according to their destinations and number, and appoint the recruits with organizational ability as squad or platoon leaders or company commanders to take charge of the management of the recruits en route;

(3) The military units shall set up reception groups at the bus (railways) stations, wharves or airports where the recruits are to report for duty, to take charge of the reception work of the recruits."

17. Article 30 is revised as Article 35: "The military forces in terms of the units at the corps level shall, 15 days before the starting date of the transportation of recruits, send over liaison teams to the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and put forward recruit transportation plans of their respective units according to the provisions. "

18. Article 31 is revised as Article 36: "Conscription offices of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, in light of the number of recruits and the embarkation and debarkation places of the vehicles, vessels and planes and in accordance with the relevant provisions on transportation, put forward to the joint logistics departments of the major military commands the plans for the transportation of recruits of their respective regions."

19. Article 34 is revised as Article 39: "The military representative offices stationed along the communications lines and the military diet supply stations on the way shall, on their own initiative, solve related problems during the transportation of the recruits. The military diet supply stations, the personnel for the picking-up of recruits and the recruits shall accept the direction of the military representatives."

20. Article 35 is revised as Article 40: "After arrival at the military units, the recruits shall be quarantined and reexamined in accordance with the provisions. When any recruits are found by quarantine to be inflicted with infectious diseases, they shall be given isolation treatment in time, and necessary epidemic prevention measures shall be taken; where any recruits are found by reexamination to be criminal suspects before the enrollment, necessary control measures shall be taken."

21. Article 36 is revised as Article 41: "During the quarantine and reexamination period, if any recruits are found to be unsuitable for active service due to disqualification in physical or political conditions, they shall be returned. The time limits for returning recruits shall, from the date of their arrival at the military units till the date of approval by the military units, be no more than 90 days for those who are unqualified in political conditions or no more than 45 days for those who are unqualified in physical conditions. Where the recruits to be returned are inflicted with infectious diseases or fatal or serious diseases, the military units shall give them timely treatment, and notify at the same time the conscription offices of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government where they were enlisted, and return them when their state of the illness get steady, and their return shall not be subject to the time limits. No substitutions shall be made for the returns."

22. Article 37 is revised as Article 42: "The return of recruits due to disqualification in physical conditions shall be testified by the check of the hospitals of the stationed troops (for the armed police forces, the general corps hospitals or the people's hospitals of the prefectures or cities), examined by the sanitation departments of the units at or above the division (brigade, or the general corps in case of the armed police forces) level, and approved by the headquarters of the units at or above the division (brigade, or the general corps in case of the armed police forces) level; for the return of recruits due to disqualification in political conditions, the military units shall check for verification in advance by contacting the conscription offices of the provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the Central Government where the recruits were enlisted, and if the recruits are indeed unqualified, the case shall be examined by the security departments of the units at or above the division (brigade, or the general corps in case of the armed police forces) level, and submitted for approval to the political organs of the units at or above the division (brigade, or the general corps in case of the armed police forces) level. "

23. Article 38 is revised as Article 43: "The military units shall do well ideological work to the recruits to be returned, properly handle the return procedures, and send the recruits back to the conscription offices of the provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the Central Government where they were enlisted."

24. Article 39 is revised as Article 44: "Conscription offices of the provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the Central Government shall receive the unqualified recruits returned by the military units in accordance with the provisions, and notify the conscription offices of the counties and cities where they were enlisted to take them back and nullify their enrollment procedures, and the local public security organs shall grant their residence registration; if the recruits were staff members or workers of the organs, organizations, enterprises or institutions, the original units shall allow them to resume their work or office; if the recruits were students of higher education institutions, the original institutions shall allow them to resume their studies in accordance with the relevant provisions.

25. Articles 40 and 41 are combined into one article as Article 45: "Funds needed by the Ministry of National Defense to conduct conscription work shall be listed in the central budget. Funds needed for the conscription and military service registration work of the provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the Central Government shall be paid by the provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the Central Government and be listed under the "Military Service Enlistment" account of the local budgets.

"The outlay scope of the military service enlistment funds and their administration measures shall be formulated by the Finance Ministry and the Headquarters of the General Staff."

26. Article 42 is revised as Article 46: "The funds needed for the enlistment of recruits for the armed police forces shall be handled according to the relevant provisions of the State Council and the Central Military Commission."

27. One article is added as Article50: "Expenses needed for the return of unqualified recruits by the military units shall be borne by the military units before the completion of the procedures of the return of recruits with the relevant provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the Central Government, and after the completion of the procedures of the return of recruits, shall be borne by the conscription offices of the people's governments."

28. Article 46 is revised as Article 51: "Any organ, organization, enterprise or institution which refuses to fulfill the enlistment tasks, obstructs citizens from performing their obligations of military service, or engages in any other act impeding the conscription work, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the Military Service Law and other relevant regulations.

Any citizen who has the duty to perform military service but refuses or evades the military service registration or the physical examination, or any citizens who is eligible for enlistment but refuses or evades the enlistment, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the Military Service Law and other relevant regulations. "

29. Article 47 is revised as Article 52: "When handling the conscription work, the State functionaries and the military personnel shall strictly execute the conscription order and guarantee the quality of recruits. Those who take bribes, commit illegalities for personal interests or by fraudulent means, abuse their powers, or neglect their duties, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the Military Service Law and other relevant regulations. "

30. One article is added as Article 53: "The punishments to be imposed by the people's governments at the county level in accordance with the provisions of the Military Service Law and other relevant regulations shall be handled by the organs in charge of military service affairs of the people's governments at the county level."

In addition, the words of some of the articles shall be revised respectively and the article order shall be adjusted correspondingly.

This Decision shall be effective as of the date of promulgation.

The Regulations on Conscription Work shall be revised correspondingly according to this Decision and re-promulgated.

Regulations on Conscription Work

（Promulgated by the State Council and the Central Military Commission on October 24, 1985, and revised in accordance with the Decision of the State Council and the Central Military Commission on Amending the Regulations on Conscription Work on September 5, 2001）

Chapter I General Provisions

Article 1These Regulations are formulated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Military Service Law of the People's Republic of China.

Article 2Recruit enlistment is an important work for strengthening the building of the military forces and for safeguarding the socialist homeland, and the people's governments and military organs at various levels shall fulfill this task in real earnest.

Article 3Each year, male citizens who have reached 18 years of age by December 31 shall be enlisted for active service. Those who are not enlisted during the year shall remain eligible for active service until they are 22.

To meet the needs of the armed forces, female citizens may be enlisted for active service according to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

To meet the needs of the armed forces and on the principle of voluntary participation, male and female citizens who have reached 17 years of age but have not yet reached 18 years of age by December 31of a certain year may be enlisted for active service.

Exemption from enlistment shall be granted to citizens unfit for military service owing to serious physical defects or serious deformities. The enlistment of a citizen eligible for enlistment may be deferred if he is the only worker in his family providing its means of substance or if he is a student in a full-time school.

Persons deprived of political rights by law shall not be enlisted. A citizen shall not be enlisted if he is detained for investigation, prosecution or trial, or if he has been sentenced to imprisonment, criminal detention or public surveillance and is serving his sentence.

Article 4The number of citizens to be enlisted for active service each year, the requirements for them to be enlisted and the time schedule for enlistment shall be prescribed by the conscription order of the State Council and the Central Military Commission.

Article 5Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall arrange the enlistment work of their respective regions in accordance with the conscription order of the State Council and the Central Military Commission.

When assigning enlistment tasks, provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, in light of the number and qualities of citizens eligible for enlistment, and the production and life situations of the local people, make unified planning and equitable distribution with due consideration for all concerned, giving priority to the enlistment of recruits of special requirements. Conscription by turns of prefectures or counties may be carried out; for prefectures or counties that are inflicted with comparatively serious disasters, the enlistment task may be lessened or exempted in light of the circumstances.

Article 6The State, in light of the needs of enlistment, may divide in a planned way the country into various regions for enlistment of recruits for technical soldiers. Provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and the military units shall handle the enlistment and replenishment of recruits for technical soldiers in accordance with the designation of enlistment regions.

Article 7The Defense Ministry, under the leadership of the State Council and the Central Military Commission, shall implement the conscription work of the whole country, and the concrete work shall be undertaken by the Conscription Office of the Defense Ministry.

Major military commands shall be in charge of the conscription work of their respective areas, and the concrete work shall be undertaken by the conscription offices of the commands.

Provincial military commands (garrison commands), military sub-commands (garrison commands), and arm-the-people departments of counties, autonomous counties, cities and municipal districts (hereinafter referred to as the counties and cities) concurrently function as the organs in charge of military service affairs of people's governments at the respective same level. The local people's governments at or above the county level shall organize organs in charge of military service affairs, departments of public security, health and other departments concerned, to constitute conscription offices to handle the enlistment work of their respective regions.

The organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions and people's governments of townships, nationality townships and towns, and subdistrict offices of cities, shall handle the enlistment work of their respective units and areas in accordance with the arrangements and requirements of the counties and cities.

Article 8The work of directly enlisting volunteer soldiers from non-military departments shall be handled by conscription offices at various levels.

Article 9All the units shall conduct in-depth education of patriotism, revolutionary heroism and performing military service by law to the broad masses of youths, do well ideological and political work to citizens eligible for enlistment and encourage them to enlist actively for the purpose of safeguarding their socialist homeland.

Article 10Those who have made outstanding achievements in enlistment work shall be commended and rewarded.

Chapter II Military Service Registration

Article 11The organs in charge of military service affairs of the counties and cities shall, before September 30 every year, organize units at the grassroots level to make registration of male citizens who have reached 18 years of age by December 31 of the year.

Male citizens that reach the age for military service shall make military service registration according to the notice of the organs in charge of military service affairs of counties and cities. Those who, due to special reasons, cannot personally go to make the registration upon the receipt of the notice may entrust in written form their relatives or the units to which they belong with registration on their behalf.

Article 12The organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions, and people's governments of townships, nationality townships and towns, as well as subdistrict offices of cities shall, in accordance with the arrangements and requirements of counties and cities, organize male citizens at the right age of their respective units and areas to make military service registration and fill in the military service registration forms, determine by law the persons who shall perform military service, shall be exempted from military service, or shall not perform military service, and submit the determination for approval to the organs in charge of military service affairs of the counties and cities. The persons who are registered for military service and are qualified in preliminary examination are called citizens eligible for enlistment.

Article 13The organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions, and people's governments of townships, nationality townships and towns, as well as subdistrict offices of cities shall, in accordance with the arrangements and requirements of the counties and cities, make physical examination by eyesight, medical history investigation and preliminary political and cultural examination of citizens eligible for enlistment of their respective units or areas, and select those who are ideologically and politically sound, healthy and well-educated as predetermined enlistment objects of the year, and notify the person concerned.

Article 14Conscription offices of the counties and cities and units at the grassroots level shall strengthen the administration, education and inspection of the predetermined citizens eligible for enlistment, and know well their basic conditions.

Where predetermined citizens for enlistment are to leave the counties and cities of their registered permanent residence for a period of one month or longer, they shall report their whereabouts and the ways of communications to the arm-the-people departments at the grassroots level, and shall return in time for enlistment in accordance with the notice of the organs in charge of military service affairs.

The organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions to which the predetermined citizens for enlistment belong shall urge them to be enlisted on time, and shall provide conveniences.

Chapter III Physical Examination

Article 15When the enlistment starts, conscription offices of the counties and cities shall, in light of the enlistment task, make planned arrangements for physical examination of the citizens eligible for enlistment.

Article 16Physical examination of the citizens eligible for enlistment shall be uniformly organized by conscription offices of the counties and cities, and the departments of public health administration at the same level shall be in the charge of the specific work; hospitals may be appointed for the physical examination, or medical workers may be unitarily seconded to form physical examination teams and to set up physical examination stations.

Article 17The organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions, and people's government of townships, nationality townships and towns, as well as subdistrict offices of cities shall arrange the citizens eligible for enlistment to accept physical examination on time at the appointed hospitals or physical examination stations. The number of citizens to be examined shall be determined by conscription offices of the counties and cities in light of the enlistment task assigned by the superior and the physique conditions of the local citizens eligible for enlistment.

Article 18Medical workers in charge of physical examination work shall strictly implement the physical examination standards for citizens eligible for enlistment promulgated by the Defense Ministry and the relevant provisions, so as to ensure the physical quality of the recruits in real earnest.

Article 19Conscription offices of the counties and cities shall organize random physical examination among the citizens eligible for enlistment who are to be approved for active military service, and the citizens randomly examined shall usually be no less than one third of all the recruits. If a comparatively large number of unqualified persons are found through the selective examination, all the citizens eligible for enlistment who are to be approved for active service shall be reexamined. All the persons intended to be submarine crewmen, surface ship crewmen, tank crewmen, parachutists and other posts that have special requirements on physique conditions shall be reexamined under the unitary organization of conscription offices of the counties and cities.

Chapter IV Examination of Political Background

Article 20The examination of political background of citizens eligible for enlistment shall be uniformly organized by conscription offices of the counties and cities, and the public security organs shall be in the charge of the specific work, and other units concerned shall give their assistance.

Article 21The organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions, villagers (residents) committees and people's governments of townships, nationality townships and towns, as well as subdistrict offices of cities and public security stations shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions on the examination of political background in enlistment work and in light of the arrangements and requirements of conscription offices of the counties and cities, conduct in real earnest the examination of political background of citizens eligible for enlistment who have passed physical examination, paying special attention to making clear their current behaviors.

Article 22Conscription offices of the counties and cities shall conduct one-by-one reexamination of political background of the citizens eligible for enlistment who are to be approved for active service, and be strict with the standards so as to ensure the political reliability of the recruits, and prevent politically unqualified persons from getting enlisted.

Chapter V Examination and Approval of Recruits

Article 23When examining and approving the recruits, conscription offices of the counties and cities shall conduct an overall measurement of the citizens eligible for enlistment that are qualified in physical examination and examination of political background, and select and approve only those who are ideologically and politically sound, healthy and well-educated to perform active service.

Article 24Sons and daughters, sisters and brothers of revolutionary martyrs and wounded and disabled revolutionary servicemen, if they are willing to be enlisted and are qualified for enlistment, shall have priority in being approved for active service.

Article 25Students studying in full-time higher education institutions whose enlistment may be deferred by law, if they are willing to be enlisted and are qualified for enlistment, may be approved for active service, and the education institutions where they formerly study shall reserve their registration of students status, and allow them to resume their studies when they discharge from the military service.

Article 26Conscription offices of the counties and cities shall handle the enrollment procedures of citizens eligible for enlistment who are approved for active service, issue them the notice of enrollment of eligible citizens, and notify the organs in charge of permanent residence registration of their registered permanent residence places. Their family members shall, on the strength of the notice of enrollment, go to the organs in charge of permanent residence registration of their registered permanent residence places for withdrawing the permanent residence registration of the citizens eligible for enlistment, and enjoy the treatments for servicemen's family members.

Article 27Eligible citizens who are approved for active service, if they are workers or staff members of organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions (including units of collective ownership), shall be given by the original units all the salaries, bonus and various subsidiaries of the month in which they leave their jobs.

Chapter VI Handing-over of Recruits

Article 28The handing-over of recruits may be conducted by way of delivery by the personnel sent by the counties and cities, reporting for duty to the military units by the recruits themselves, or picking up by the personnel sent by military units.

Article 29When handing-over of recruits is conducted by way of delivery by the personnel sent by the counties and cities, the following work shall be done well:

(1) When the enlistment starts, the military forces, in terms of the units at the corps level (at the general corps level in case of the armed police forces, the same below), shall send over liaison teams to take charge of the liaison with the conscription offices of the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, deciding through consultation on such relevant matters as destinations for the recruits delivered by the counties and cities, transportation en route and handing over matters;

(2) The sub-allotment of recruits shall be comparatively concentrated, and the military units to be replenished with the recruits enlisted from a county or a city shall not be more than three divisions or brigades;

(3) Conscription offices of the counties and cities shall, in accordance with the arrangements of conscription offices of higher levels, designate right-hand personnel to take charge of the delivery of recruits to the divisions or brigades of the military forces; the ratio between the personnel for delivering the recruits and the recruits shall be about one to thirty;

(4) Conscription offices of the counties and cities shall, after the recruits are assembled, group the recruits according to their destinations and number, and conduct necessary military knowledge, security knowledge and ideological education to the recruits;

(5) After accompanying the recruits to the military units, the personnel for delivering the recruits shall make introduction to the military units on such matters as the political, physical and cultural conditions, and the strong features of the recruits, and return in time after completing the handing-over procedures;

(6) When the recruits arrive, the military units shall give a warm reception, and make appropriate arrangements for the board and lodging of the recruits and the personnel for delivering the recruits.

Article 30When handing-over of recruits is conducted by way of the counties and cities organizing the recruits to report for duty to the military units by themselves, the following work shall be done well:

(1) When the enlistment starts, the military forces in terms of the units at the corps level shall send over liaison teams to take charge of the liaison with the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, consulting on the matters relating to the reporting for duty of the recruits by themselves;

(2) Conscription offices of the counties and cities shall, in accordance with the arrangements of conscription offices of higher levels, decide through consultation with the liaison teams sent by the military units on such relevant matters as the places for the recruits to report for duty, ways of communications and the reception of recruits; group the recruits according to their destinations and number, and appoint the recruits with organizational ability as squad or platoon leaders or company commanders to take charge of the management of the recruits en route;

(3) The military units shall set up reception groups at the bus (railways) stations, wharves or airports where the recruits are to report for duty, to take charge of the reception work of the recruits.

Article 31When the handing-over of the recruits is conducted by way of picking up by the personnel sent by the military units, the following work shall be done well:

(1) The military units shall designate cadres and medical workers who are ideologically sound and have a strong policy sense and organizational ability, to constitute capable temporary organs to accomplish the task of recruits picking up;

(2) After arriving in the areas for the picking-up of recruits, the personnel for the picking-up of recruits shall, under the leadership of the local people's governments and military organs, actively assist the conscription offices in the fulfillment of the enlistment task;

(3) Organs in charge of military service affairs at various levels shall, in their own initiative, make good arrangements for the board and lodging of the personnel in charge of the picking-up of recruits, introduce to them the situation of the enlistment work, solicit their opinions and consult with them on the matters relating to the handing-over of the recruits;

(4) The assembling and handing-over of recruits may be conducted at the places where the people's governments of the counties or cities are located or other places convenient for transportation. The handing-over procedures shall be completed one day before the start of the transportation of recruits.

Article 32In going through the handing-over procedures, the following work shall be done well:

(1) Muster rolls of the recruits shall be uniformly compiled in duplicate by conscription offices of the counties and cities, one copy for the military units and the other kept by conscription offices of the counties and cities;

(2) When the handing-over of the recruits is conducted by way of delivering by the personnel sent by conscription offices of the counties and cities or by way of picking up by the personnel sent by the military units, the two parties for the handing-over shall, in a face-to-face manner, check and hand the recruits over according to the muster rolls of recruits and shall sign and seal on the muster rolls, and the documentary materials and official letters of introduction of the recruits shall all be handed to the military units;

(3) When the handing-over of the recruits is conducted by way of organizing the recruits to report for duty to the military units by themselves, the muster rolls, documentary materials and official letters of introduction of the recruits shall be sealed, and shall be carried by the appointed company commanders or platoon leaders to hand over to the military units after arriving at the places for reporting for duty; the military units shall tell noses according to the muster rolls, and inform in time by letter the conscription offices of the counties and cities of the enlistment regions of the arrival time and number of the recruits.

Article 33Conscription offices of the counties and cities shall conduct overall observation of the assembled recruits before the start of the transportation of recruits, and shall make timely substitutions when finding cases of changes in political or physical conditions that are not in compliance with recruit requirements so as to prevent sending unqualified recruits to the military units.

Article 34The joint logistics (logistics) departments of major military commands, provincial military commands (garrison commands) and military sub-commands (garrison commands) shall work out plans for the bedding and clothing of the recruits, and shall allocate the bedding and clothing to the counties and cities. The logistics departments of the general corps of the armed police forces of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall work out plans for the bedding and clothing of the recruits for the armed police forces, and allocate the bedding and clothing to the counties and cities. The counties and cities shall issue the bedding and clothing to the recruits before the start of the transportation of recruits.

Chapter VII Transportation of Recruits

Article 35The military forces in terms of the units at the corps level shall, 15 days before the starting date of the transportation of recruits, send over liaison teams to the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and put forward recruit transportation plans of their respective units according to the provisions.

Article 36Conscription offices of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, in light of the number of recruits and the embarkation and debarkation places of the vehicles, vessels and planes and in accordance with the relevant provisions on transportation, put forward to the joint logistics departments of the major military commands the plans for the transportation of recruits of their respective regions.

Article 37The railway, communications and civil aviation departments shall, in light of the recruit transportation plans, make timely allocations of vehicles, vessels and planes to ensure the safe arrival of the recruits at the military units.

Article 38Conscription offices of the counties and cities and the military units to pick up the recruits shall organize the start of the transportation of recruits on schedule set by the transportation plans. Before the start of the transportation, transportation safety education shall be conducted to the recruits to prevent accidents en route.

Article 39The military representative offices stationed along the communications lines and the military diet supply stations on the way shall, on their own initiative, solve related problems during the transportation of the recruits. The military diet supply stations, the personnel for the picking-up of recruits and the recruits shall accept the direction of the military representatives.

Chapter VIII Quarantine, Reexamination and Return of Recruits

Article 40After arrival at the military units, the recruits shall be quarantined and reexamined in accordance with the provisions. When any recruits are found by quarantine to be inflicted with infectious diseases, they shall be given isolation treatment in time, and necessary epidemic prevention measures shall be taken; where any recruits are found by reexamination to be criminal suspects before the enrollment, necessary control measures shall be taken.

Article 41During the quarantine and reexamination period, if any recruits are found to be unsuitable for active service due to disqualification in physical or political conditions, they shall be returned. The time limits for returning recruits shall, from the date of their arrival at the military units till the date of approval by the military units, be no more than 90 days for those who are unqualified in political conditions or no more than 45 days for those who are unqualified in physical conditions. Where the recruits to be returned are inflicted with infectious diseases or fatal or serious diseases, the military units shall give them timely treatment, and notify at the same time the conscription offices of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government where they were enlisted, and return them when their state of the illness get steady, and their return shall not be subject to the time limits. No substitutions shall be made for the returns.

Article 42The return of recruits due to disqualification in physical conditions shall be testified by the check of the hospitals of the stationed troops (for the armed police forces, the general corps hospitals or the people's hospitals of the prefectures or cities), examined by the sanitation departments of the units at or above the division (brigade, or the general corps in case of the armed police forces) level, and approved by the headquarters of the units at or above the division (brigade, or the general corps in case of the armed police forces) level; for the return of recruits due to disqualification in political conditions, the military units shall check for verification in advance by contacting the conscription offices of the provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the Central Government where the recruits were enlisted, and if the recruits are indeed unqualified, the case shall be examined by the security departments of the units at or above the division (brigade, or the general corps in case of the armed police forces) level, and submitted for approval to the political organs of the units at or above the division (brigade, or the general corps in case of the armed police forces) level.

Article 43The military units shall do well ideological work to the recruits to be returned, properly handle the return procedures, and send the recruits back to the conscription offices of the provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the Central Government where they were enlisted.

Article 44Conscription offices of the provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the Central Government shall receive the unqualified recruits returned by the military units in accordance with the provisions, and notify the conscription offices of the counties and cities where they were enlisted to take them back and nullify their enrollment procedures, and the local public security organs shall grant their residence registration; if the recruits were staff members or workers of the organs, organizations, enterprises or institutions, the original units shall allow them to resume their work or office; if the recruits were students of higher education institutions, the original institutions shall allow them to resume their studies in accordance with the relevant provisions.

Chapter IX Outlay of Funds

Article 45Funds needed by the Ministry of National Defense to conduct conscription work shall be listed in the central budget. Funds needed for the conscription and military service registration work of the provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the Central Government shall be paid by the provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the Central Government and be listed under the "Military Service Enlistment" account of the local budgets.

The outlay scope of the military service enlistment funds and their administration measures shall be formulated by the Finance Ministry and the Headquarters of the General Staff.

Article 46The funds needed for the enlistment of recruits for the armed police forces shall be handled according to the relevant provisions of the State Council and the Central Military Commission.

Article 47Transportation expenses for the recruits' bedding and clothing allocated to the counties and cities shall be reimbursed respectively by the joint logistics departments of the major military commands and the logistics departments of the general corps of the armed police forces of the provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the Central Government. The transportation expenses needed for the counties and cities to issue the recruits bedding and clothing shall be paid from the military service enlistment funds.

Article 48Where the enlisted recruits are delivered to the military units by the local authorities or the recruits report for duty to the military units by themselves, the fare, mess expenses and accommodation expenses needed en route from the recruit assembling sites of the counties and cities to the military units, shall be reimbursed by the military units in accordance with the provisions; where the recruits are picked up by the personnel sent by the military units, the expenses needed beginning from the date of reception by the military units shall be borne by the military units.

Article 49The traveling expenses needed by the personnel for the recruits delivery during their accompanying the recruits to the military units and the accommodation expenses needed during the period of the handing-over of recruits after their arrival at the military units, shall be reimbursed by the military units according to the prescribed standards; the food allowance for the personnel for the recruits delivery during the period of the handing-over of recruits at the military units and their return traveling expenses shall be paid from the military service enlistment funds of the counties and cities.

Article 50Expenses needed for the return of unqualified recruits by the military units shall be borne by the military units before the completion of the procedures of the return of recruits with the relevant provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the Central Government, and after the completion of the procedures of the return of recruits, shall be borne by the conscription offices of the people's governments.

Chapter X Supplementary Provisions

Article 51Any organ, organization, enterprise or institution which refuses to fulfill the enlistment tasks, obstructs citizens from performing their obligations of military service, or engages in any other act impeding the conscription work, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the Military Service Law and other relevant regulations.

Any citizen who has the duty to perform military service but refuses or evades the military service registration or the physical examination, or any citizens who is eligible for enlistment but refuses or evades the enlistment, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the Military Service Law and other relevant regulations.

Article 52When handling the conscription work, the State functionaries and the military personnel shall strictly execute the conscription order and guarantee the quality of recruits. Those who take bribes, commit illegalities for personal interests or by fraudulent means, abuse their powers, or neglect their duties, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the Military Service Law and other relevant regulations.

Article 53The punishments to be imposed by the people's governments at the county level in accordance with the provisions of the Military Service Law and other relevant regulations shall be handled by the organs in charge of military service affairs of the people's governments at the county level.

Article 54The Ministry of National Defense shall be responsible for the interpretation of these Regulations.

Article 55These Regulations shall be effective as of the date of promulgation.