Approved by the Central Military Commission (CMC), the general headquarters/departments of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently issued a document demanding the PLA and Armed Police Force (APF) to further regularize work guidance and management on the grassroots level.
The document consists of 12 articles, involving intensifying overall work planning and coordination, cutting meetings and messages, reducing big events, strictly controlling the number of inspection and evaluation activities, and implementing rules on vacation and home leave. Parts of the main contents are as follows:
Officers in grassroots units should be ensured to have no less than three workdays without meetings every week;
No more than one of the activities such as pilot projects, military operation demonstrations and concentration training is permitted to be held in the same brigade or regiment-level unit per year;
The number of work inspection groups to visit the same brigade and regiment-level unit shouldn't exceed two per month;
Except under special circumstances, officers and soldiers in grassroots units are allowed to have at least two evenings of free time in the workdays every week;
For those non-commissioned officers whose spouses have worked and lived in the localities where the troop units are stationed for a long time, they are allowed to take turns to stay at home on rest days and holidays according to overall arrangement of the unit;
For unmarried corporals whose parents are not living in the same places with them, they can enjoy one home leave of 20 days per year during their service term.
PLA Daily comments on Friday that the document provides effective recipes for solving the problems which have received the most complaints from the service persons and injects new vitalities into the construction and development of the grassroots units of the Chinese military.
