What Is the Required Enlistment Age?

Conscription refers to the recruitment of citizens to serve in the army in accordance with the provisions of the Military Service Law.

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1. Call for troops.

Bring the registered ID card graduation certificate and 3 copies of 1-inch photo to the Ministry of Arms for on-site registration. The unqualified documents will be rejected on the spot.

The recruited young people are junior high school, high school (including vocational high school, technical secondary school, technical school) with education level above graduated, enterprise units with high school education or above (including workers, managers and technical personnel), and enterprises and institutions with high school graduation or above Educational workers, non-educated private college students, non-educated students accepted by colleges and universities, and young people studying in various college entrance examination tuition classes should also be recruited. The recruitment of young women is limited to fresh senior high school graduates. The recruiting age is 18 to 20 years old for young men; young people who have graduated from high school or above and employees of enterprise units can also be recruited at 21 years old. According to their own voluntariness, the highest level of education can be relaxed to 23 years. Young women are 17 to 19 years old. College is 23 years old and undergraduate is 24 years old. The person in charge of the conscription office mentioned the requirements for the appearance of enlisted youths-youths with dyed hair, eyebrows, tattoos, scars, and nostrils will not be able to join the army. The person in charge emphasized that the army is a special organization and has strict requirements, especially in terms of military appearance and discipline, to maintain the seriousness of the soldiers. Requirements for becoming a non-commissioned officer directly: The target for recruiting non-commissioned officers must be a male citizen who has passed the training at a middle (high) vocational technical school (institute) and has obtained a vocational qualification certificate of junior (intermediate) level or above issued by the state. The basic conditions are:

(1) Political review and physical examination meet the political and physical conditions of the citizens who are enlisted for active service;

(2) Those who have graduated from secondary vocational technical schools must obtain a junior vocational qualification certificate issued by the state and have worked in the profession for more than one year; those with a college degree or above must obtain a vocational qualification certificate issued by the state and above. To recruit fresh graduates, you can also recruit professional and technical personnel of enterprises and institutions;

(3) The age generally does not exceed 25 years of age. Those who are specially required by the army and have a professional qualification certificate for technicians can be relaxed to 27 years of age. The age range is narrower than the original regulations. The original regulations are that the age is generally not more than 28 years old, and the special requirements of the army or the professional qualification certificates of technicians and senior technicians can be relaxed to 30 years of age.

Order of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China

No. 316

The "Decision of the State Council and the Central Military Commission on Amending the" Regulations on the Recruitment Work "" is hereby promulgated and will be implemented as of the date of promulgation.

Premier Zhu Rongji

Chairman of the Central Military Commission Jiang Zemin

September 5, 2001