Today, the community informed me to apply for a military service certificate. What does this mean?

I was thinking, too. I was informed, too. It seems that I will do it when I am old, but I don't have to be a soldier.

If you don't join the army, you still have to go to military service registration and get a military service registration certificate.

Military service registration has something to do with conscription, but it is not an absolute causal relationship. To put it simply, military service registration doesn't have to be a soldier.

Military service registration is the national statistics of the school-age population, and it is a basic work of wartime troop mobilization. According to the provisions of the national defense law, all young people of school age must participate in military service registration.

The relationship between conscription and military service registration is mainly that the military service organs stipulate pre-conscripts among all school-age young people who participate in military service registration on the principle of eligibility and voluntariness, and then finally determine the conscripts through physical examination and political examination.

Therefore, only a few people who participated in military service registration were able to join the army, while most people participated in military service registration instead of being soldiers.