Only after the National-Day-golden-week-holiday, the winter recruitment work in Jiangsu Province has started. According to leaders of the provincial recruitment office, the recruitment of college students will dominate this year's work. On the first working day after the vacation, workers in the recruitment offices at all levels and military departments went to higher educational institutions to provide on-site consultation service for college students and handed out publicity articles to them so as to do well in the investigation and primary examination of college student enrollees.

　　Jiangsu is not only a big province in terms of soldier sources, but a big province in science, technology and culture. In order to send more high-quality soldiers to the armed forces, the province has adjusted the recruitment scale of college students and expended the recruitment scope from the original 8 pilot cities to the whole province. Recruitment departments at all levels have handed out the "military service registration sheet" to the college students timely to make good preparation for the registration of the recruitment candidates. They take the management and education of recruitment candidates in colleges as a basic work by organizing the students to visit the barracks and inviting servicemen with college education backgrounds to talk with students about their growing experiences in barracks, through which the students' sense of mission and responsibility for national defense has been greatly enhanced.

　　The municipal Party committees and government of Nantong, Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, Suzhou have also worked out　preferential policies by laying down specific regulations on the resumption of study, preferential treatment and allocation of the college students after their demobilization. The city of Wuxi has stipulated: if a student enjoyed excellent student scholarship before he joined the army, the scholarship will be upgraded by one class when he resumed his studies. For those who have gained the third-class merit, the tuition fee would be reduced to less than 50%. For those who have gained the second-class merit, the tuition fee would be exempted. For those who would find employment independently, on the scale of economic subsidy for retired soldiers, the local government should increase the subsidy by 10% for freshman and sophomore, by 20% for junior students on th ebasis of the standard subsidy. For those whose household register are in cities, the local government should be responsible for their allocations.

　　By Wu Cheng and Wang Shaoyun

　　(October 20, PLA Daily)