Wuwei city takes new measures to stimulate youth recruitment enthusiasm

To check the "disease", we must first take the "pulse" before we can give medicine to the "disease". Recently, the Wuwei Municipal Government of Gansu Province issued seven preferential policies, such as giving priority to low-rent housing, affordable housing, urban and rural medical assistance, minimum living security, free vocational education and skills training, and rewarding meritorious service, to solve the problems of "being cold as a soldier" and "being difficult to recruit" and encourage school-age youth to join the army. As soon as the measures were introduced, they immediately aroused strong repercussions in the local area.

Wuwei City is one of the areas with a large number of soldiers, and it allocates more than 1 10,000 soldiers every year. A few years ago, Wuwei's economic development was backward, and it was difficult for local finance to bear the subsidy standard for soldiers' special care, which led to the delay in issuing resettlement subsidies for some retired soldiers. In addition, due to many factors such as the streamlining of local government institutions, it is difficult for retired soldiers to find jobs, which has dampened the enthusiasm of school-age youth to apply for enlistment to some extent. In order to solve the problems of "being cold as a soldier" and "being difficult to recruit soldiers", in recent years, they have mobilized the militia to participate extensively in the resident economy and the construction of new countryside, making new countryside and township enterprises a new stage to attract young migrant workers to "return home" and start businesses, and by timely incorporating them into township militia organizations, thousands of township-age youth have been stationed. At the same time, they also took advantage of the opportunity of non-public enterprises to expand militia organizations in recent years, and incorporated school-age employees with higher academic qualifications and better physical fitness into the militia team, and coordinated enterprises to sign a "discharge agreement" with school-age youth to keep their jobs before joining the army and relieve the worries of school-age employees.

In order to change the phenomenon of "sharpening the knife before the war" in the propaganda of national defense policies and regulations, the Municipal Conscription Office, in conjunction with the Municipal National Defense Education Office and the Municipal Education Bureau, made full use of newspapers, television, internet, text messages and other modern propaganda means to form an all-round three-dimensional propaganda scale, so that national defense knowledge penetrated into thousands of households, and * * * has become the conscious action of the people of the city together with officers and men who care about national defense and the army.

Last year, the city's conscription office actively adapted to the new changes brought about by the adjustment of conscription policies at higher levels, responded quickly, and made full arrangements in advance. Faced with the fact that college graduates are looking for jobs or leaving school ahead of time, they have widely mobilized grassroots armed cadres and militia backbones to set up contact groups for pre-requisition, so that more than 5,000 fresh graduates can contact people by telephone, letter and file. Last year, the city sent all kinds of fresh graduates to 80% of the total number of recruits. This year, they have done a good job of contacting the pre-requisitioned objects in advance, combining the statistics of the pre-requisitioned objects with the work of directly recruiting non-commissioned officers, so that all the information of the pre-requisitioned objects is entered into the pre-requisitioned object management system.

In order to enhance the propaganda effect of the conscription policy, they are linked with the resident troops, so that soldiers who enjoy the policy welfare in the resident troops can go to the consultation site and use their personal experience to solve doubts for young recruits. At the same time, they organized school-age youth and college students to visit the military camp, forming their first impression of the military camp and eliminating their sense of strangeness and exclusion. In order to relieve the worries of young conscripts, the Wuwei municipal government issued the Opinions on Doing a Good Job in Resettlement of Retired Soldiers, which made the resettlement of retired soldiers enter the legal track. The "Opinions" clearly stipulates the payment of preferential payments to urban and rural soldiers during their service and the monetized resettlement after retirement, and gives preferential policies to soldiers who have rendered meritorious service and won awards in the army.

Since then, according to the requirements of higher authorities for free skills training for veterans, the city has coordinated six high and intermediate vocational and technical colleges to receive nearly 1000 veterans, and all the first batch of students graduated, with a recommended employment satisfaction rate of 85%. The continuous promotion of this policy has created favorable conditions for conscription. In recent years, more than 300 officers and men serving in Wuwei have won meritorious service awards in the army, and 128 people have been admitted to military schools. According to the statistics of the Municipal Conscription Office, up to now, more than 3,000 school-age youths in the city have actively registered.