CCTV News: On April 11, six departments of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the State Administration of Taxation, and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce jointly launched the 2025 special action on employment services for veterans to further improve the employment support system for veterans and promote their high-quality and full employment.
This special employment action is themed "Rong Yao New Job Employment Escort" and lasts from April to November, including 6 service activities including employment tracking, job stabilization and expansion, employment breakthrough, special recruitment of state-owned enterprises, and private enterprise recruitment.
The six departments encourage all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and relevant prefectures to cooperate to share high-quality employment resources, and carry out "small but refined" and "specialized" recruitment activities in different industries and fields according to the placement methods, education, age, and professional characteristics of the service objects, and provide employment services in a refined manner. At the same time, areas with geographically adjacent and complementary industrial advantages should jointly carry out recruitment activities and provide employment services across regions. In addition, we should work with relevant departments to carry out special recruitment and training in the fields of transportation, national defense mobilization, emergency rescue, grassroots medical and health care, and the "two committees" of villages (communities) grassroots "two committees".
Data shows that since the Ministry of Veterans Affairs launched a special campaign for employment services for retired military personnel in 2023, it has guided veterans affairs departments at all levels across the country to hold a total of 22,700 job fairs, provided 13 million job recruitment positions, and more than 650,000 retired military personnel have reached employment intentions.
Artificial Intelligence Empowers Employment Action for Veterans
In this special campaign for employment services for veterans, the reporter discovered a new feature, which is to use emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence to empower employment for veterans.
The special action on employment services for retired military personnel in 2025 clearly states that local veterans affairs departments should use artificial intelligence algorithms to deeply explore employment data and comprehensively analyze the overall employment situation of local veterans on the premise of ensuring data security. In addition, the country also encourages regions with conditions to develop artificial intelligence models exclusively for employment for retired soldiers, realize automatic resume generation, accurate job matching, and provide services intelligently.
The booming development of the artificial intelligence industry has also brought new employment opportunities to the majority of retired soldiers. The employment special action also clarifies that localities should vigorously carry out skill training in the field of artificial intelligence and guide retired soldiers to find employment in fields such as artificial intelligence data annotation and training, algorithm basics, and machine learning.
Adapt to local conditions and introduce special policies to promote employment for retired soldiers
In recent years, my country has continuously improved the employment policy and system for retired soldiers and continuously broadened employment channels and scale. Localities have also introduced various special policies to promote employment for retired soldiers according to local conditions. The latest data shows that as of now, the average employment rate of retired soldiers who have retired from self-employed in 2024 has reached 86%.
The Ministry of Veterans Affairs stated that since 2018, they have jointly issued more than 30 policy documents in conjunction with relevant departments, covering the improvement of veterans' academic qualifications, training empowerment, employment support, and entrepreneurship support. In Hunan, the local government has stated that the proportion of retired military personnel recruited by state-owned enterprises and primary and secondary school teachers shall not be less than 5%. For those who are difficult to obtain work through market-based employment, priority will be given to public welfare positions such as community services.
In Jiangsu, the country's first provincial-level veteran human resources market was officially launched this week, and a special job fair for veterans was held. 31 companies on the scene provided thousands of positions for veterans. In addition to regular online ride-hailing drivers and safety officers, there are also a number of drone pilots and smart home engineers in emerging fields such as network security and intelligent manufacturing.
The Ministry of Veterans Affairs stated that the next step will be to dig deep into the resources of new industries and employment cooperation enterprises, continue to expand employment channels and scale, and promote high-quality and full employment for retired soldiers.
