On June 10, the 29th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress voted to pass the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Military Status and Rights and Interests."

The enactment of this law is a major measure to implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping. It is an inherent requirement to improve the national legal system, protect the status and rights of soldiers in accordance with the law, and lead the whole society to respect the military profession and strengthen the national defense awareness. Objective needs are of great and far-reaching significance for realizing the party's goal of strengthening the army in the new era and building the people's army into a world-class army in an all-round way.

　　Respect for soldiers and preferential treatment of military members are the political advantages and fine traditions of our party and our army.

For a long time, our party and country have formulated a series of laws and policies around the protection of military status and rights and interests, and accumulated a lot of valuable experience, which needs to be systematically summarized and upgraded to legal norms.

General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the formulation and improvement of military status and rights protection laws and regulations, and has given important instructions on many occasions.

The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly stated that the legitimate rights and interests of military members should be safeguarded and military personnel should become a profession respected by the whole society.

All of these have provided fundamental compliance for this legislative work.

　　The world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century, and our country is in a critical period of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

It is imperative to formulate and promulgate a law on the protection of military status and rights to meet the requirements of the era of strong and prosperous army.

This law adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implements Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, focuses on serving and preparing for war, keeping close to the special attributes of the military profession, and focusing on enhancing the attractiveness of the military profession and the sense of mission and honor of the military. The basic principles and basic systems for the protection of military status and rights and interests are systematically stipulated. Together with the Veterans Protection Law and other laws and regulations, they constitute a complete legal system for maintaining the respected status of military personnel and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of military personnel.

With strong legal guarantees, the broad masses of officers and soldiers will surely be encouraged to effectively perform their duties and missions, and will surely attract more outstanding young people to join the army to serve the country and dedicate themselves to national defense, so as to build a strong national defense and a powerful army.

　　Maintaining the respected status of soldiers and safeguarding their legitimate rights and interests are related to national defense and army building, as well as the overall situation of national security and development.

To implement the law and make military personnel a profession respected by the whole society requires not only government leadership and policy guarantees, but also value guidance and social consciousness. It requires all levels of agencies, organizations, and various forces to build consensus and work together. Promote the formation of a good society that respects soldiers and supports national defense.

All regions and departments must take the implementation of the military status and rights protection law as an important political task and basic work, insist that the party committee assumes the overall responsibility, the main leaders personally grasp it, and the relevant departments work closely together to take strong measures to promote the accurate implementation of the law; It is necessary to strictly compare the laws and regulations of the standard to the table, combine the local actual situation, step up the establishment, reform and abolishment of laws and regulations, formulate and promulgate related supporting laws and policies, and make every effort to solve the worries of the officers and soldiers, and comprehensively improve the quality of military status and rights protection benefit.

　　("The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Military Status and Rights and Interests" see the fourteenth edition)

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