Page 78 - 2023 OUTLINE OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR REPUBLIC OF CHINA

National Conscription

for regular service draftees should serve the 4-month general military training, though there are ex-
ceptions for substitute services applications due to family or religious factors.

In addition, with limited sources of substitutive servicemen, public administration service has been
available for application from 2019, which includes consular substitute service, cultural substitute ser-

vice, athletic substitute service, and tribal substitute service for indigenous people, in order to meet
current major state policies.

This policy is intended to cultivate diplomatic talent, to avoid interruption of cultural and athletic

training, as well as to encourage indigenous people to promote tribal development through substi-
tutive service. Since 2020, due to the high demand for long-term care social service and tech R&D
talents, applications for substitute service are now open for draftees who were born after 1994 in re-
lated professions (medical, social welfare, home care, tech R&D, etc.).

In addition, to provide more diverse options for draftees, those born after 1994 are also qualified to
apply for police services and firefighting services from 2021. More draftees responsible for social securi-
ty, disaster preventing and relief will also be sent to remote areas; in 2022, in order to meet national de-
fense needs, the implementation of police service stopped, and the number of substitute services was
reduced. Since 2022, substitute services are divided into four categories: firefighting services, social ser-

vices, public administration substitute services (consular, cultural, and athletic substitute services, and
draftees who have indigenous people status), and R&D substitute services. Draftees are responsible for
duties such as long-term care, disaster prevention and relief, and technological R&D. In addition, due

to the Force Structure Adjustment of All-out Defense, substitute services have been incorporated into
the civil defense system to assist government agencies during peacetime, and provide local support for
military operations during wartime, ensuring social continuity.

1. Requisition Agencies Offering Annual Demands for Substitute Servicemen
In accordance with Article 4 of the Enforcement Rules of the Implementation Act of Substitute
Services, the requisition agency shall submit a substitute service implementation plan and a man-

power demand plan for the coming four years by the end of February of each year. The MOI shall re-
view the annual plans for the execution of substitute services submitted by applicant institutions and
report these proposals to the Executive Yuan for approval by the end of May.

76