What is a full-time government firefighter?

Government full-time firefighters refer to professionals who are directly managed by the government, funded by the government and recruited by the fire department from the society and specialize in local comprehensive rescue work. For details, please refer to the Provisions on the Establishment of the National Guard in Article 4 of the General Plan for the Reform of the Military System in China, the Implementation Measures for the Fire Safety Responsibility System of the General Office of the State Council (Guo Ban Fa [2017] No.87), the Regulations on the Construction and Management of Full-time Fire Brigade in Guangdong Province (Order No.219 of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government) and other regulations on the construction of full-time fire brigades in various provinces and cities.

Full-time fire brigade is a special force to put out fires, which undertakes the fire fighting tasks of enterprises or towns, and also undertakes the fire fighting and rescue tasks of society, effectively making up for the shortage that public security fire brigade is far away from enterprises and towns, and is an important part of China's fire fighting force system at this stage. .

China's current fire protection system is compulsory military service. With the reform and opening up and economic development, the fire protection system of military service system is increasingly restricting the development of fire protection, and professionalization has become the future development direction of fire protection in China.

Full-time government firefighters are different from active firefighters in people's usual concept. Their members have undergone strict professional training, organized by the local government, guaranteed by financial funds, and enjoy the treatment of public institutions, and are not limited by retirement age, thus avoiding the embarrassment that active firefighters face retirement when they are just mature. Full-time government firefighters have become the backbone of the urban fire fighting team. Their greatest advantage is professionalism and specialization, and they can choose lifelong careers.

In the general plan of China's military system reform, it is pointed out that the public security fire brigade included in the armed police sequence cancels the military service system, its main firefighting team is separated from the public security system, and its personnel status is changed to full-time firefighters, and its fire prevention supervision and law enforcement functions are handed over to the public security departments of public security organs; The Armed Police Forest Force abolished the military service system and merged into the local fire control system.

In recent years, with the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization in China, fire fighting has become an indispensable part of social and economic development. There is an increasing demand for full-time firefighters all over the country, especially in the southeast coastal areas. In addition, governments at all levels continue to improve the welfare of full-time firefighters. Therefore, in the future, full-time firefighters will become a new hot industry and become the common choice of ambitious young people.