PLA Daily 2005-06-15 　　 　　The Headquarters of General Staff, the General Political Department, the General Logistics Department and the General Armaments department jointly issued a notice recently to promulgate the "Regulations on the Use and Safety Management of Vessels of the Army and the Air Force". This move indicates that the use and safety management of vessels of the Army and the Air Force has embarked on the road of standardization and institutionalization and scientization. 　　Guided by the army building thinking of the Central Military Commission in the new stage, the Regulations has fully drawn in the successful experience and innovation results of the vessel units in terms of use and safety management of vessels and developed for the first time an improved accident prevention, investigation and management mechanism. 　　The Regulations has 48 clauses in 10 chapters and has all-roundly and systematically regulated the guiding thinking, policy and principles, basic tasks, responsibilities of all levels, and system and measures of the use and safety work of vessels. 　　Enhancing technical prevention and uplifting the management level by virtue of professionalization is the prominent feature of the Regulations. The Regulations has specifically stipulated that officers steering vessels must be vessel-profession officers holding the "Technical Certificate for Army Vessel Officers" with corresponding profession and grade, and NCOs steering vessels must possess the"National Occupational Qualification Certificate" for vessel profession. 　　By Niu Di and Liu Mingxue 　　(June 15, PLA Daily)