The Ministry of Veterans Affairs held a press conference yesterday (5th). At the meeting, the relevant person in charge said that the country has successively introduced a number of measures to guide local governments to promote the employment and entrepreneurship of veterans.
A number of measures to help veterans find jobs and start businesses
Up to now, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs has signed employment cooperation agreements for veterans with 66 enterprises in three batches, detailed and implemented measures such as online employment services, vocational skills improvement, and enterprise signing and cooperation, built a service platform, and unblocked information "blocking" point".
Gu Lei, deputy director of the Employment and Entrepreneurship Department of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs: Strengthen policy promotion, guide companies to actively recruit, and promote local and nearby employment.
According to statistics, in 2021, the main body of the retired military market will increase the employment of retired military personnel by 85,000.
In addition, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs and the Ministry of Education have jointly deployed to promote outstanding veterans to teach in primary and secondary schools, and provide preferential policies for applying for teacher training courses.
Shanghai and Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, as the first pilot areas, rely on local normal colleges to explore targeted training of retired military college students. After graduation, qualified municipal districts and counties will recruit them uniformly.
Strengthen the protection of military memorial facilities and promote the construction of smart cemetery
The Ministry of Veterans Affairs said that in recent years, it has, together with relevant departments, actively carried out the information collection and verification of martyrs' memorial facilities, realizing the dynamic information management of 760,000 martyrs' tombs across the country.
By carrying out the information collection and verification of martyrs' memorial facilities, we have comprehensively found out the bottom line, and started to compile electronic maps and overview atlases of martyrs' memorial facilities across the country.
In the next step, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs will strengthen policy supervision and implementation with relevant departments, continue to strengthen the planning, construction, repair, management and maintenance of military memorial facilities, further promote the construction of smart cemeteries, and further strengthen the excavation of heroic deeds, the story of heroic martyrs, and the promotion of heroic spirit. Play the role of the main front for patriotic education of martyrs' memorial facilities.
Select specialized care hospitals to provide affordable and convenient services
In terms of seeing a doctor for special care recipients, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs stated that it will select 15 specialized special care hospitals across the country, and use 5 to 10 years to build a special care medical system with a reasonable layout and meeting needs.
Recently, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs and other eight departments jointly issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Reform and Development of Special Care Hospitals" to comprehensively start the reform of special care hospitals, taking into account comprehensive factors such as the needs of special care recipients and the distribution of public medical resources, and selecting comprehensive special care facilities nationwide. Hospitals, rehabilitation specialist hospitals, increase construction support, and comprehensively improve the level of medical care and services.
In addition, in terms of medical treatment for special care recipients, more affordable and convenient services have been provided by improving the special care medical policy system of "insurance + assistance + subsidy + preferential treatment".