China News Service, February 28th. According to the official Weibo news of the Ministry of Defense Information Bureau, at the press conference of the Ministry of Defense held on February 28, press spokesman Wu Qian pointed out that with the approval of the State Council and the Central Military Commission, it will be launched in 2020. The semi-annual enlistment work was postponed until the second half of the year and organized and implemented, and the first half of the enlistment task was merged and completed in the second half of the year.
Wu Qian, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense. Image source: Official Weibo of the Ministry of Defense Information Bureau
A reporter asked at the meeting: At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of National Defense announced that the recruitment of compulsory soldiers will be retired from once a year, and adjusted to twice a year. Does the current epidemic affect recruitment in 2020?
Wu Qian introduced that according to the decision-making and deployment of the national epidemic prevention and control work, the people's lives and physical health should be given top priority, and in accordance with the principle of recruiting work obedience to the epidemic prevention and control principle, ensure that the military and local levels should devote major efforts to epidemic prevention and control Control the front line, and resolutely win the fight against epidemic prevention and control. With the approval of the State Council and the Central Military Commission, the recruitment of the first half of 2020 will be postponed to the second half of the year. The first half of the year will be consolidated and completed in the second half of the year. The general task of recruiting new recruits every year and the tasks of recruiting new recruits by provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities remain unchanged.
Wu Qian said that the solicitation time will be unified to start on August 1, recruit new recruits on September 10, and end on September 30.