"Hello, comrade-in-arms! Welcome to join our company..." In the spring, many military start-ups in Xiaoxian County, Anhui Province, issued an invitation to the veterans for entrepreneurship and employment. Geng Guangfeng, director of the Xiaoxian Veterans Affairs Bureau, said that in recent years, they have actively built a service platform for the entrepreneurship and employment of retired servicemen with military entrepreneurship as the main body in accordance with the working idea of "veterans help veterans, military entrepreneurship help military entrepreneurship", and guided the "group development" of retired servicemen in the way of "supporting a group, expanding a group, and driving a group", to help them achieve high-quality entrepreneurship and employment. The county explored the establishment of the Veterans Entrepreneurship Association in June 2019. At present, it has developed into a service platform integrating entrepreneurship training, technical consultation, information exchange and product promotion, and has developed and absorbed 68 military entrepreneurship enterprises. In 2022, the Association was recognized as the outstanding contributor to entrepreneurship and employment of retired soldiers in Anhui Province. "Last year, we set up 33 skill training bases for ex-servicemen relying on military innovation enterprises, guided 22 ex-servicemen to obtain agriculture-related professional certificates, 2 ex-servicemen to obtain rural revitalization instructor certificates, and 1 ex-servicemen to obtain entrepreneurship trainer certificates, which directly promoted the employment of more than 1000 ex-servicemen and other groups." Wang Di, president of Xiaoxian Veterans Entrepreneurship Association, introduced. It is understood that the county also relies on high-quality military entrepreneurship enterprises to build an entrepreneurship incubator for ex-servicemen, and set up a entrepreneurship lecture hall for entrepreneurship guidance. Yang Yong, a retired soldier in the county and the head of a clothing enterprise, said that in 2022, they provided free bases, equipment, funds and technical support for the retired soldiers by relying on the garment semi-processing project, and helped six retired soldiers to start businesses successfully. With the help of the preferential policies for ex-servicemen entrepreneurship, Liu Bu, the ex-servicemen of the county and the head of an enterprise, started from the family workshop, innovated production technology, adjusted the operation mode, and constantly made the enterprise bigger and stronger. Today, the agricultural science and technology enterprises he runs attract more than 30 ex-servicemen to join and take office. "A fence has three stakes, and a hero has three gangs. With the joint help of the relevant military and local departments and military enterprises, I believe that more 'camouflage entrepreneurial pioneers' will emerge in Xiao County," Liu Bu said. (Xinhua News Agency)