Tutor：Owain James My Expections for My Future Author：Tina

visible contributions and achievements or have performed other merits.

Awards include first-, second- and third-degree merits and the title of honor.

Award winning civil servants may also receive additional reward in the form of a certain amount of bonus, prizes, raise in salary. Civil servants who have violated discipline are to be penalized. Administrative penalty includes six types of punishments such as warning, recording a demerit, recording a serious demerit, demotion, stripping one of his position and sacking.

This includes promotion based on annual evaluation, on achievements and merits after examination.

Civil servants with outstanding merits and achievements may be promoted by bypassing restrictions on seniority but such promotions must be approved by relevant departments in accordance with regulations.

Demotions are meted out to civil servants who have been proved incompetent or who have been proved incompetent but are inappropriate to transfer to other positions; those who have to take up lower positions as a result of change in the organizational setup or reduction of the leading posts; those who ask for demotion with ample reasons. They shall be permitted to take up lower posts.

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Demotion is also meted out to those who have committed mistakes and are no longer suitable to remain in their original positions. State organs carry out this restrictive measure in order to avoid civil servants making use of their power for private gains.

Civil servants receive salaries according to their positions. Their salaries consist of four parts: official post pay, official class pay, basic pay and seniority pay.

The state implements a labor insurance system to provide material aid to civil servants who have temporarily or permanently lost the ability to work.

Civil servants enjoy benefits in free medical service, pay during sickness and maternity leave, home-visiting holiday, welfare subsidies and pension and compensation payment.

Civil servants may apply for terminating their employment with state administrative organs in accordance with laws and regulations. Resigning is not a unilateral decision by the civil servant. It has to be processed according to legally established procedures.

State administrative organs may strip a civil servant, who is unsuitable to serve his position, of his power and obligations, thus taking him out of the rank of civil servants.

Civil servants who have worked for a certain number of years and reached the age of retirement may leave their posts. They shall

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receive retirement insurance and pension on a regular basis. Based what have been discussed aboved, being a civil servant can bring you numerous benefits not only for your life but also for your future development.

Our destiny is mastered in our own hands. Before it is too late to take any actions, makeing previously thought for our future is a wise choice. My three choices of the jobs are decided according to my will, my major and the reality. Therefore the decisions are very realistic. I do not want to make some empty plans for my future.

I believe that as long as I make up mind to do it I can achieve what I want. The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. What I need to do most now is to try my best to study well and improve myself from varied aspects. No cross, no crown. Consequently, no matter what difficulties I might meet, I would never give up.

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