The benefits of “home reform” for severely disabled persons with severe disabilities are expanded, helping the disabled to overcome poverty
Beijing News (Reporter Qu Xiaoyi) After nearly a month of "continuous rainy" weather, Guizhou has entered a period of cloudy and little rain. Zhou Pingchang, an old man who established a family with a disabled person in Guorong Township, Tongren City, Guizhou Province, said that now it is raining and he is no longer afraid of wrestling or going to the toilet. The Disabled Persons’ Federation helped her family repair the barrier-free toilet exactly the same as in the city. The floor at the entrance was replaced with a concrete floor, which solved the problem of slippery and easy to fall after rain. It is understood that Zhou Pingchang has a first-degree disability, and her daughter-in-law has a second-degree disability, and has limited mobility. Previously, the toilet was just a simple fence built with thatch. In order to catch the rain, going to the toilet became their biggest headache. Today, the toilet has become the newest and most convenient place in the home.
According to statistics, China is one of the countries with the largest proportion of disabled people in the total population in the world. On average, there is one disabled person in every six families. The barrier-free transformation for disabled persons, especially poor and severely disabled families, is not only convenient for life. Living and improving the quality of life can also liberate the family members of the disabled. This is an important measure to protect the basic livelihood of the disabled and help fight poverty. It is also an important prerequisite for ensuring the integration and sharing of social life for groups with special needs. Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", the China Disabled Persons' Federation has set up a file to promote the barrier-free renovation of severely disabled families as a priority deployment and achieved significant results.
Establishing files and establishing cards, barrier-free renovation of severely disabled families is the first step in poverty alleviation
The construction of a barrier-free environment is a basic condition for disabled people to integrate into society, an important symbol of social civilization and progress, and it is a major event to safeguard and protect the legal rights and interests of special social groups such as disabled people.
The disabled have an urgent need to be able to do housework, bathe, use the bathroom, and communicate with others without barriers in family life. Barrier-free renovation for the disabled, especially the poor and severely disabled families, not only facilitates daily life and improves the quality of life, but also liberates the originally occupied family labor force, improves the economic status of disabled families, and helps the disabled to get rid of poverty. One of the important measures in the battle.
Tang Zhanxin, director of the Hope Home for People with Spinal Cord Injury in Beijing, believes that barrier-free renovation of severely disabled families is the first step for severely disabled people to achieve poverty alleviation. Tang Zhanxin was paralyzed in the lower body due to spinal injury. She was the first wheelchair student since the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business was founded. She founded the "House of Hope" to help many injured friends who suffered spinal cord injuries due to acquired accidents, and to "rebuild their lives" and return to society . Tang Zhanxin said that for a severely disabled person, barrier-free home renovation is not only the renovation of the environment, but also the building of self-confidence. Only when you can take care of yourself and move freely at home can you dare to go out; only when you go out and have the ability to live independently can you have income; with income, you can further recover, and ultimately achieve self-esteem, self-love, and self-improvement . It can be seen that the barrier-free renovation of severely disabled families is a key part of the path to poverty alleviation, and related content has also been incorporated into national regulations, plans, and policies.
In 2016, the State Council’s “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for Accelerating the Process of Prosperity for the Disabled” proposed “effectively increase the barrier-free renovation of poor and severely disabled families”. In the same year, 26 departments and units including the China Disabled Persons’ Federation and the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council issued the "Action Plan for Poverty Alleviation of Impoverished Disabled Persons (2016-2020)", proposing to "stabilize and effectively expand the coverage of barrier-free renovation of poor families with disabilities by 2020" , "Increase the support for relocation of poverty-stricken households with registered and registered disabled persons, and implement the planning and construction of barrier-free facilities for families in the formulation and implementation of relocation plans." Progress, the goal and measures for barrier-free renovation in the renovation of dilapidated buildings.
In 2017, in order to standardize work procedures and content, and provide technical guidance and support for barrier-free renovation of families with disabilities, the China Disabled Persons’ Federation issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Barrier-Free Reconstruction of Poor and Severely Disabled Families." In September of the same year, Chairman Zhang Haidi of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation made a written speech at the 22nd Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference on “Attaching Great Importance to Solving the Problem of Barrier-Free Reconstruction of Poverty and Disabled Families in Rural Areas”, proposing that Recommendations for the transformation work to include the targeted poverty alleviation goals, increase the investment in transformation funds, and improve the content and technical level of the transformation.
During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the China Disabled Persons' Federation sought 833 million yuan from the Ministry of Finance for subsidies from the Central Lottery Public Welfare Fund, which provided subsidies for the barrier-free renovation of approximately 238,000 impoverished disabled families, which was about three times that of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan". According to the statistics of the nationally updated basic services and needs of disabled persons, from 2016 to 2019, a total of 4.35 million people with disabilities were completed nationwide, including 550,000 impoverished and severely disabled families. The 9.6% in 2017 rose to 40.7% in 2019. The Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council entrusted a third-party organization to carry out a comprehensive evaluation, and the barrier-free renovation work of poor and severely disabled families was “good”.
Formulate and implement standards for family reconstruction for the disabled, so that the details fit with life
Over the years, the China Disabled Persons’ Federation, relevant departments and all parties in the society have been committed to promoting the construction of a barrier-free environment across the country. Lu Shiming, vice chairman of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation, said that there is still room for further improvement in the barrier-free renovation of poor and severely disabled families.
First of all, there is an urgent need for barrier-free renovation work in poor and severely disabled families, and the amount is wide. Second, the renovation project and level are not high. Due to the limitation of funds and other objective conditions, the existing barrier-free renovation projects for poor and severely disabled families are limited to simple renovations such as building ramps and installing handrails. The renovation standards are low and the level is not high. There is a big gap between demand and expectations.
Tang Zhanxin said that there are still a large number of barrier-free renovations for disabled families. The lack of attention to the personality characteristics of disabled persons and the lack of strict supervision and construction have caused some renovations to deviate from the original intention of barrier-free design, and some even backfired.
In response to these issues, in 2017 the China Disabled Persons’ Federation issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Barrier-Free Reconstruction of Poor Severely Disabled Families", formulated and implemented the "Guiding Opinions on Barrier Reconstruction Work for Poor Severely Disabled Families", and clarified the working principles. , Content and safeguard measures; organized and compiled the "Access Standards for Service Undertake Institutions for Disabled Families of Disabled Renovation Projects (Trial)", "Government Purchases of Disabled Renovation Services for Disabled Families (Trial)", and "Government Purchases of Accessibility for Disabled Families" Renovation Service Evaluation Standards (for Trial Implementation)", which provides a reference basis for various localities to carry out renovation work.
In addition, in the "Local Disabled Families' Barrier-free Improvement Achievements and Cases", the achievements and experiences of 27 provinces and cities are also collected. Among them, the "tailor-made" family barrier-free renovation in Nanpi County reflects the differentiated design to maximize the barrier-free assistance effect. Xiaodi, a villager in Dongtangjiawu Village, Luguan Township, Nanpi County, suffered a spinal cord injury and paralyzed his lower body in an accident nine years ago. He was accompanied by a wheelchair all the year round. The concrete steps that could have been crossed by one step became a stumbling block when he got out of the house. Today, the two steps at the door of the house are transformed into a cement ramp of 4 meters long and 2 meters wide, and the kitchen is equipped with a stainless steel mobile low-level stove and four rows of handrails. There are no obstacles in the entire home environment, and Xiao Di's life has also been greatly improved. His biggest emotion is that he finally doesn't have to crawl out of the house. In addition, Xiaodi also said that now not only can he use a wheelchair to boil water and cook, but he can also weld small transformers at home and do a few more profitable odd jobs. The days are more hopeful.
Family barrier-free renovation is the optimization of details—every detail in residential renovation must be kept in line with the lives of the disabled. The details are handled with care and attention, which maximizes safety, practicality and convenience, and highlights everywhere. Care for the disabled.
Further expand the benefits of "home reform" for severely disabled persons
2020 is the final year for my country to build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and the 13th Five-Year Plan. Although the epidemic is current, efforts have not been reduced. In March 2020, the China Disabled Persons’ Federation issued the "Notice on Effectively Doing a Good Job in the Barrier-Free Renovation of the Family with the Disabled Persons with the Documents and Registration Cards to Help the Disabled Persons Alleviate Poverty"; The video supervision meeting on barrier-free renovation work for families with disabilities continues to increase supervision over local areas.
On July 15, the China Disabled Persons’ Federation and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Health Commission, the Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council, and the National Office for Aging "Guiding Opinions on the Home-Adaptive Aging Reconstruction Project", which regards disabled elderly as the key support and subsidy object for family barrier-free renovation, which is important for expanding the benefit of disabled families and promoting the establishment of a long-term mechanism for barrier-free renovation of families with disabilities. significance.
In accordance with the requirements of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation, various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have issued policy documents to promote the barrier-free transformation of poor and severely disabled families. Among them, Hebei, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Shandong, Henan, Gansu and other 24 provinces are the provinces. The documents issued jointly by the Provincial Government Office or the Provincial Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation or the Provincial Disabled Persons’ Federation and the Housing Construction, Civil Affairs, Poverty Alleviation Office, Finance and other departments have high levels and strong implementation efforts; some places have adopted the Obstacle transformation was incorporated into the government's practical projects for the private sector, included in the overall situation of poverty alleviation, and promoted by various measures such as increasing financial investment, and achieved good results.
Take Henan Province as an example. As of the first half of this year, the province has implemented barrier-free renovations for more than 214,000 disabled families. Zhumadian City, Xinyang City, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province, Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, Zichang City, Shaanxi Province, Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province, Nanpi County, Hebei Province, etc. Significant progress has been made.
At present, my country has made remarkable achievements in the barrier-free transformation of severely disabled families with the establishment of documents and cards, but this is not the end, but a new starting point. Regarding the next work arrangement, Director Zhou Jian of the Rights Protection Department of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation said that the China Disabled Persons’ Federation will further instruct all localities to increase the work of barrier-free renovation work for families with severely disabled persons who have established files.
First, we will strive to complete the task of barrier-free transformation of families with severe disabilities by the end of August by the end of August, so as to meet the urgent needs of poor disabled persons to improve their home environment and improve their quality of life. Encourage qualified areas to carry out barrier-free renovations to other disabled families in need; increase investment, improve renovation standards, and upgrade renovation levels according to the disabled status, needs and living environment of the disabled.
Second, the provincial-level disabled persons’ federations should increase the evaluation and inspection of local renovation work, strengthen supervision through various forms, and give play to the positive incentive role of supervision and evaluation work, paying attention to both the quantity of evaluation and the quality effect to ensure that the transformation is effective; Strengthen fund supervision to ensure fairness and transparency in all links of the whole process.
The third is to effectively implement the "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Advancement of the Ageing Reconstruction Project for the Elderly’s Homes" by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, China Disabled Persons’ Federation and other departments, integrate resources, and form a joint effort for barrier-free renovation work for the disabled and the elderly; combined with the poverty alleviation census work Carry out, earnestly sum up the effectiveness and experience of the barrier-free renovation work of the “13th Five-Year” poor and severely disabled families, actively report to the party committee and government, seek support from relevant departments, and explore the establishment of the Disabled Persons’ Federation, civil affairs, aging, finance and other departments to participate in Long-term working mechanism of mutual cooperation.