Retired soldiers, as the name suggests, are soldiers who once served in the People's Liberation Army and now leave the army to become ordinary people. Among them, there are officers (cadres), non-commissioned officers (volunteers), and soldiers (soldiers). At that time, they served in the army for a short period of two or three years, and the long period was more than ten years and decades, and after leaving the army, they were collectively called "retired soldiers".
Due to the different status of retired servicemen in the army, there are also differences in the name (form) when leaving the army. To sum up, there are usually four names for soldiers who leave the army: retirement, discharge, demobilization, and change of employment. They are all soldiers who have left the army, why are there so many names, it is difficult to distinguish them.
In fact, whether it is retirement or demobilization, it is very simple to distinguish. You only need to grasp one key point, which is the concept of discharge from the military and changing jobs, and it is very easy to distinguish.
In our time, there were three identities in the army: cadres, volunteers, and soldiers. Cadres and volunteers who leave the army are called "demobilization," and soldiers who leave the army are called "discharge." Cadres who want to change jobs and return to their hometowns but do not have a quota (for example, Beijing and Shanghai have to change jobs every year) and cannot leave for a while, they can change their cadre status to become soldiers, and then leave the army and return to their hometowns, which is called "demobilization."
The concepts of job transfer, discharge, and demobilization are all clear! Uniting the above three, there is a common name, which is called "decommissioning". Therefore, retirement is a big concept (genus), and transfer, discharge, and demobilization are three small concepts (species). How's that, I've explained it clearly enough, right?
If you still can't tell the difference between the four concepts, let me tell you a little bit more about my experience, and you will definitely be stunned. I joined the army in 1972, and there were more than 20 people in a company with me. Three years later, at the beginning of 1976, 10 of us who joined the army were leaving the army and returning to their hometowns. After a few years, some of us who came to the army were promoted to cadres, and some of them were transferred to volunteers. After a few more years, a few of the cadres were ready to leave the army, and they were called "demobilization"; One of the cadres lived in a big city, and he had no quota for a while, and he couldn't leave without a quota, but he was eager to return home, so he adopted the method of changing his identity from a cadre to a soldier, so that he could leave the army. He is called "demobilization".
Both dischargers and demobilization nominally leave the army as soldiers, but when soldiers are discharged from the army, the "discharge allowance" is very small, and when cadres are transferred to soldiers and demobilized, the "demobilization allowance" is relatively more, and there is still a difference between the two, mainly because there is a large difference in the length of service. Later, I also changed jobs and became a "retired soldier", and like all veterans, demobilized and demobilized soldiers, I received a "retired military preferential treatment card".