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How can child-friendliness be implemented in detail?

By Shutty GelinoPublished 3 years ago 9 min read
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"The doll loves to come to the children's park to play, there are many places to move and the scenery is good. Look, there are sand pools, swings, and tents, she can play all day." Ren, a teacher who brought her granddaughter to play in Bishan District, Chongqing City, told the China Women's Daily all-media reporter on May 26.

Covering an area of about 870 acres, Maple Lake Children's Park is a first-class and free children's theme park with children's entertainment as its theme and cultivation culture as its background, integrating amusement, science popularization, and landscape, with 16 children's playgrounds and 10 scenes rich in regional and cultivation culture, which is a first-class and free open children's theme park with non-powered amusement facilities. It is a children's paradise, a fairy tale world, where children can enjoy the fun of children's play, enjoy the color of the lake, travel to study, and taste the interest of farming and reading. At present, Fengxiang Lake Park has become a popular attraction for suburban parents and children, attracting a large number of tourists from inside and outside the city to experience every holiday.

Children playing on the swing island in Maple Lake Children's Park during holidays.

Create a child-friendly happy space

Whether children can have a healthy growth environment is related to the happiness index of a family, social civilization, harmony, and high-quality development of the city. One of the happiest things for children in Bishan is that they can go to the free park within 15 minutes of going out. In the past ten years, the district government has invested nearly 2 billion yuan to build more than 30 parks with children's elements, such as Guanyintang Wetland Park, Xiuhu Park, and Camping Park, creating a leisurely and comfortable living environment for children.

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In addition to parks, libraries, where you can read with mom and dad, are also the "Netflix" of children's hearts. The parent-child reading space looks like a big tree hole, the low bookshelf in the shape of a small crocodile, and the bookcase in the shape of colorful leaves. ...... When you walk into the Bishan District Library, a national-level library, you will see the parent-child reading room full of children's interests. The furniture in the parent-child reading room is all custom-made children's furniture, with rounded corners and soft bags ...... both environmentally friendly and cartoonish elements, reflecting a child-friendly atmosphere everywhere. The reading room has a collection of more than 10,000 books such as homeschool picture books, domestic and foreign classic picture books, and science picture books, and the warm scene of parents and children reading together can be seen everywhere. "Our library also has a children's reading room, electronic reading room, historical display exhibition, and AR interactive encyclopedia, as well as a children's reading space such as a parent-child reading booth, with a collection of more than 12,000 children's books. Last year, the library also opened the Bookworm Mass Reading Branch, which focuses on children's picture books. On weekends, we also hold parent-child activities such as picture book reading together and sharing of ancient poems, and the dazzling array of beautiful books and comfortable reading environment attracts a large number of families to come and read and punch the clock." Liu Xiaoqin, deputy director of the district library, told reporters.

With the further improvement of the construction of comprehensive cultural service centers in Bishan towns, streets, and villages (communities), the reading and play spaces for children are spread all over the district.

In the district's integrated media center, Zhang Wei, secretary of the party committee and director of the center introduced the center's elaborate brand column "Home with Baby", which integrates fun, knowledge, and participation, enriching children's extracurricular life and making them grow up healthily in happiness. Since its launch six years ago, "Family with Baby" has become the favorite program for children in the region, and the center will next push more excellent family education programs for exhibition.

Universal quality and balanced education for children

In recent years, Bishan District has increased public financial investment in education, planned the layout of primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in urban and rural areas, and optimized the allocation of educational resources.

At present, there are 4 independent public kindergartens, 54 kindergartens attached to schools, 25 public and private inclusive kindergartens, and 61 private kindergartens in the district, with a gross enrollment rate of 98.2% in the first three years of preschool education. The target task of "three-year action plan for preschool education" was completed. The net enrollment rate of primary school-age children is 100%, the enrollment rate of junior high school is 100%, the rate of advancement to junior high school is significantly increased, and the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education for girls is stable above 98%. Successfully create a community education municipal model district, supporting and optimizing family education guidance services, and achieving full coverage of village (community) family education guidance service stations (points) and parent schools in primary and secondary schools and kindergartens.

In the next 10 years, Bishan District will improve the education system of comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, social, and aesthetic development written into the "Chongqing Bishan District Children's Development Plan (2021-2030)", vigorously promote the innovation of children's education concept, system, system, content, and evaluation, promote the universal and inclusive development of preschool education, promote the quality and balanced development of compulsory education and urban-rural integration, expand the supply of high school The government will also promote the development of universal and inclusive pre-school education, promote the quality and balanced development of compulsory education and urban-rural integration, expand the supply of quality resources for high school education, guarantee the right to education for special groups of children, and improve the mechanism of coordinated education among schools, families, and society.

Continuously improve the level of children's health services in the district

"We have opened a new specialty of child growth and development and formed a technical team of more than 20 people, including pediatrics, endocrinology, traditional Chinese medicine, nutrition, and pediatrics, which has filled the gap of child growth and development departments in our district. The department is specially opened on weekends for the convenience of children's consultation. More than 300 people signed up for the first time, and everyone said they no longer have to travel so far to see a doctor." Peng Cai Bi, president of the district maternal and child health hospital, told reporters.

In recent years, Bishan District has further improved the child health care network, invested 80 million yuan to achieve the standardization rate of street and township health centers 100%, the township maternal and child health care staffing rate reached 100%, and each administrative village has at least one standardized village health room goal. The region's maternal and child health care workers the district maternal and child health center as the leader, the township health center as an important link, and the village health room at the bottom of the network of three-tier maternal and child health care network have been further solidified. The planned immunization rate has been maintained at over 99% in recent years, and the mortality rate of infants and children under 5 years old has been effectively controlled. Bishan District has successfully established the "National Demonstration Area of Quality Maternal and Child Health Services" and "Municipal Advanced Unit of Quality Family Planning Services".

In the future, Bishan District also plans to incorporate the main indicators of children's health into the government's target and responsibility assessment. It will carry out the creation of the "Children's Health Comprehensive Development Demonstration Zone", improve the basic health system for children, and strengthen the connection between children's medical security policies and public health policies. Each town health center and community health service center is equipped with at least one general practitioner who provides standardized basic medical services for children, and at least two doctors specializing in child health care.

Care and protection make children feel more secure

Bishan District conscientiously implements the Law on the Protection of Minors, the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, and other laws and regulations, which strongly suppresses various illegal and criminal acts against children and effectively protects the legitimate rights and interests of children. The district has set up 15 legal aid stations for minors and established the Bishan District Women's Legal Service Volunteer Group to protect the rights and interests of women and children. The community correction work for juveniles released from prison is highly valued, and the proportion of juvenile offenders to criminal offenders is on a decreasing trend.

Each department has its duties and moves to create a clean atmosphere for the healthy growth of children. The District Justice Bureau and the District Women's Federation vigorously carry out activities such as safe schools and "safe families"; the District Health and Wellness Committee and other units increase supervision and inspection of food stalls and school canteens around schools; the District Public Security Bureau strengthens social security around schools; the District Culture and Tourism Committee strengthens the management of the cultural market around schools; the District Education Committee organizes schools to The District Education Committee has organized schools to establish campus networks to cultivate proper Internet ethics among students; the District Education Committee, the District Committee on Care for Children, the District Media Center and the District Women's Federation have jointly established "small reporter stations" in all primary and secondary schools in the district to build a platform for children and youth to showcase themselves and participate in the public life of society, so as to realize children's participation in social governance. The District Political and Legal Affairs Committee, the District Women's Federation, and other six departments are working together to carry out the special action of "Protecting the buds project", paying attention to the ideological and moral construction of minors and strengthening the protection of minors.

It is reported that Bishan will further establish and improve the protection system for minors, improve the judicial work system to protect minors, fully protect the civil rights and interests of children, improve the implementation of the child guardianship system, strengthen the promotion of the rule of law for child protection, prevent and severely punish illegal and criminal acts against the rights and interests of children by the law, and take effective measures to prevent crimes committed by minors. We are working on a special judicial protection program for minors, a governance program to prevent sexual abuse, and a crime prevention and correction program to provide the necessary conditions for the healthy growth of children.

"Children's Home" Our own home

"Our children's home has a playground, a reading room, a craft room, and a training classroom, and we have a variety of activities every week, which are very popular among the dolls. " Bicheng Street in the community in the Women's Federation President Luo Hongjuan said.

Bishan District took the initiative to undertake the project of the "Municipal Children's Work Resource Center" jointly implemented by the Office of the State Council Working Committee for Women and Children and UNICEF in Chongqing. Based on the construction of 10 pilot "children's homes" in the district, a standardized construction path with space, facilities, systems, personnel, activities, and records have been explored. In the past two years, the district government insisted on increasing the special funding for the construction of children's homes, with a financial budget of more than 2.3 million yuan.

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Hu Yuhua, director of the Bishan District Women's and Children's Work Committee Office, told reporters that Bishan starts by strengthening the construction of positions, standardizing daily management and operation, and giving full play to service functions, insisting on hardware construction to meet the needs of children's physical and mental development, and daily management to achieve safe and orderly care in place, forming a working norm of "building, managing and using". At present, the 191 villages (communities) in the region are fully covered by the standardized construction of children's homes, carrying out games, health education, early education, parent-child crafts, parent-child reading, life and social skills guidance, and other types of activities more than 1600 times, serving children more than 60,000 times.

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