The Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Law on the Protection of Retired Soldiers in People's Republic of China (PRC) includes the overall design and system specification of the handover and reception of retired soldiers, resettlement of retired soldiers, education and training of retired soldiers, employment and entrepreneurship of retired soldiers, service guarantee, preferential treatment and pensions, etc. It also includes a series of innovative systems such as establishing special preferential treatment for veterans, establishing veterans' files, issuing veterans' cards, implementing the responsibility system for veterans' resettlement, and evaluating veterans' grades. Setting up a file and establishing a card is the preliminary work of the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office to carry out accurate poverty alleviation, mainly to find out the situation of the poor. What is a file card? On the basis of existing work, all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) adhere to the effective connection between poverty alleviation and development and the rural minimum living security system, and build a national poverty alleviation information network system for every poor household in accordance with the principles of county as a unit, scale control, graded responsibility, accurate identification and dynamic management.

To sum up, the rules for setting up files for veterans are very clear, the relevant policies are very perfect, and the projects are clear.

Legal basis: Article 8 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Protection of Retired Military Personnel The state strengthens the informatization construction of the protection of retired military personnel, establishes files and cards for retired military personnel, realizes the information sharing of relevant departments, and provides support for improving the support ability of retired military personnel. The competent department of retired military personnel in the State Council shall closely cooperate with the relevant departments of the central government and the State and the Central Military Commission to make overall plans for the construction, maintenance, application and information security management of information data systems.