China on Sunday issued a regulation for the country's disabled military personnel to ensure them a guaranteed living after retired from the military.

Jointly promulgated by military authorities and Ministries of Finance and Civil Affairs, the regulation pledges that military personnel who gets disabled because of war, work or illness will be rearranged to other working positions by the government after retirement.

The retired disabled veterans will also be provided with a certain amount of compensation fee according to their different levels of disabilities.

Other welfare include medical care subsidy and a basic housing allowance of at least 100,000 yuan (US$14.706) to each disabled veterans, the regulation said.

Non-commissioned officers at junior grades who are diagnosed as mental illnesses and enlisted soldiers who are diagnosed as disabilities from level I to level IV will be sustained by the government for the rest of their lives, it said.

The regulation is the first of its kind in China.

(Xinhua News Agency August 3, 2009)