The number of children in China ranks second in the world——
By 2025, build 100 child-friendly cities
China is a country with a large population as well as a country with a large population of children. The number of children ranks second in the world.
In recent years, the people’s need for a better life in the areas of “children’s education”, “learning and teaching”, and “weakness and assistance” has been increasing. Hundreds of millions of families expect their children to grow up better and enjoy a better life. Public services such as education, childcare, health, etc.
How to build a more child-friendly city, promote the healthy growth of children, and share a better future?
A few days ago, the National Development and Reform Commission worked with 22 departments to study and formulate the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Construction of Child-Friendly Cities" and proposed that pilot projects for the construction of child-friendly cities will be carried out.
Among them, by 2025, through the construction of 100 child-friendly cities nationwide, the concept of child-friendliness will be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Child-friendly requirements are fully reflected in social policies, public services, rights protection, growth space, and development environment.
By 2035, it is estimated that more than 50% of the country’s cities with a population of more than one million will develop child-friendly cities. About 100 cities will be named as national child-friendly cities. Child-friendliness has become an important indicator of the high-quality development of cities, and the concept of child-friendliness has become the whole society. By consensus and the consciousness of the whole people, children enjoy a better life.
How to build a child-friendly city?
According to Wei Yifang from the Institute of Social Affairs of the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomics, the "Guiding Opinions" focus on the most immediate and urgent needs of children and their families. , Five aspects of children's cultural and sports services, and proposed tasks and measures to promote public service-friendliness and fully meet the needs of children's growth and development.
On the one hand, highlight the full cycle and fully cover the growth and development needs of children at different life cycle stages such as fetal, infancy, early childhood, and adolescence.
On the other hand, it embodies all aspects, covering all major areas of public services for children, such as education for children, education for learning, medical treatment for diseases, and protection of cultural and sports services.
The “Guiding Opinions” put forward measures such as “seeing the city at a height of 1 meter” and “creating micro-spaces suitable for children’s games and reading” in the community, which has attracted widespread attention.
Wei Yifang believes that this series of measures depicts a blueprint for the development of a child-friendly public service system, and provides guidelines for the development of high-quality public services for children and the construction of child-friendly cities.
Which cities will be the first to become child-friendly cities?
Ou Xiaoli, director of the Department of Social Development of the National Development and Reform Commission, revealed that the first batch of 100 child-friendly cities will select cities with a strong willingness to reform, solid economic foundations, and mature construction conditions among cities with a population of more than 1 million as pilots, and start construction first.
Xiaoli Ou said that different cities have different economic and social development and the basic conditions for children's work. To promote the construction of child-friendly cities, it is necessary to adapt measures to local conditions and implement policies in accordance with the city.
We must adhere to a systematic concept and integrate child-friendliness into the new urbanization and equalization of public services.
First, combined with the promotion of new urbanization, clarify the "hard standards" for children's space and facilities in municipal construction and public buildings, and improve the "soft standards" for service quality in education, medical care, culture and sports.
Secondly, innovate the construction of urban public facilities, focusing on planning and constructing children's activity venues and facilities that provide children with learning, games, physical exercises, labor practices, scientific and technological experience, etc., expand outdoor spaces close to nature, and strengthen urban spaces and service facilities. Adaptation transformation.
In addition, it will also innovate the public service supply model. Under the premise of adhering to the positioning of public welfare, actively guide social capital into marketable fields, participate in the development and provision of diversified and multi-level service projects, and continuously enrich and expand effective supply. The child enjoys it well and the parents must also be able to afford it.
"In the construction process, on the one hand, we must give full play to the main role of local governments, and focus on individualized exploration, differentiated construction paths and construction models. On the other hand, we must focus on refining and summarizing the results of common system construction and standard construction to become national Institutional arrangements in order to replicate and promote on a larger scale." Ou Xiaoli said.
Reporter: Wang Wenzheng