The School Bus Safety Bill was approved in principle by supporting local school admission

Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council presided over the executive meeting of the State Council yesterday and reviewed and approved in principle the “Regulations on School Bus Safety Management (Draft)”.

The meeting pointed out that during the process of drafting the regulations, various opinions from all walks of life were solicited through local investigations, symposiums, and announcements on the Internet. The amendments were made several times. The draft stipulates a basic system for guaranteeing the safety of school buses in accordance with the general idea of ​​ensuring safety and practicality. The meeting decided that after further amendments to the Bill, the State Council announced the implementation.

Prior to the draft of the draft regulation on school bus safety (Draft), Professor Yuan Guilin of Beijing Normal University had participated in the demonstration as an expert representative. For the draft passed this time, Professor Yuan expressed his support and expectation and interpreted the six basic ideas one by one.

1 Protecting students from entering the school nearby <br> For rural areas where it is difficult to guarantee close proximity to school and public transportation cannot meet the needs, measures must be taken to ensure that students receive school bus services.

The pattern of recent admission has been broken. [interpretation] Prof. Yuan Guilin of Beijing Normal University says that to solve school bus problems, students must first be admitted to school. The principle of enrollment in the nearest university is stipulated in the Compulsory Education Law. It is also a fundamental guiding principle for the distribution of rural compulsory education. The current problem is that the pattern of recent enrollment has been broken, and children are generally far away from school, causing many places in rural areas to go to primary schools in townships and towns, which is very troublesome. Later, the country solved the problem of going to school by establishing a boarding school.

At the primary school stage, it should be emphasized that the school should be enrolled in the nearest place. It is not appropriate to engage in the boarding system. This is required by the law of education. During this period, children need to be educated in the family and have family love and care. And now that China is in a relatively large population flow, children in rural areas are declining, and migrants are moving to cities faster. When they go to rural areas to investigate, many boarding schools are idle.

In the event that some rural schools have been withdrawn, the relationship between boarding schools and school buses should be given priority as the school bus. Even middle school students should not be forced to follow suit.

2 above the county level governments take the overall <br> <br> clarification of the government and relevant departments of the school bus safety management responsibilities. Local governments at or above the county level are responsible for the safety management of school buses in their respective administrative regions. The relevant departments of the State Council perform duties such as unified guidance and supervision on the safety management of school buses.

It should be clarified which level of government is responsible [understand] Yuan Guilin said that this provision is correct, but as to which level of government at or above the county level is responsible, there is no further clarification. Local governments at or above the county level include the provinces, cities, and counties. If this is not clear, problems can easily result in evasions and wrangling. Yuan Guilin believes that prefecture-level cities should be the mainstay to facilitate investment promotion. Within the prefecture-level cities, the school bus company will carry out market-oriented operations to facilitate business and management. In addition, the school bus should be clearly defined by which department should be clarified. In the end, whether it is the education department, the transportation department, the public security department, or the establishment of a special department to manage should be clarified.

3 to send someone to care attendant students <br> <br> provides schools and school bus service providers to protect school bus safety duties and responsibilities. Establish a sound school bus safety management system, equipped with safety management personnel, and assign care workers to care for students.

Special care to raise the operating threshold [Interpretation] Yuan Guilin believes that assigning a person to look after the cost of a student involved in the operation of the company requires preparation and salary. The efficiency of the school bus was already low. In the morning, the bus was out at night and it was idle. It was idle during the middle period. It was not profitable anymore. What about raising another person? If this is the case, there is no company willing to do it and the threshold for entry is too high.

At the consultation stage, there is also a lot of debate on this issue, and it may be more effective to solve the problem by recruiting teachers who are on the same line as the school bus to part-time as an administrator.

In addition, before the authority is clarified, there is still a murky subject from which department to establish a sound school bus management system.

Four pairs of drivers more stringent requirements <br> <br> set school bus license. The strict technical requirements for school buses and the condition of school bus drivers are more stringent than those of ordinary passenger cars.

School bus driver should be a fixed occupation. [interpretation] Yuan Guilin pointed out that setting school bus use permission is a very important management measure. For the car, it is not painted in yellow. A sign is a school bus. The permit should be the license plate of the vehicle. Like military vehicles and buses, it belongs to special vehicles. Now, a large number of running school buses are not up to standard. Before the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology enacted technical regulations, strict requirements were imposed on vehicle safety and drivers.

The state should include school bus drivers as a fixed type of employment. It cannot simply require a driver's license for several years and no violation records. School bus drivers as a type of work, included in the Ministry of Personnel and Social Security's career directory, set a different level, the establishment of assessment and promotion mechanism, through an incentive mechanism to ensure the stability of the industry.

5 gives priority to school bus <br> <br> given priority by school bus, school bus and a top speed Do not overload clearly stated.

The proposed increase in accordance with the plan to drive [understand] Yuan Guilin believes that the school bus three road rights is very necessary, it should also add one: the school bus should be in accordance with the planned route and planning site operations, driving and docking. School bus can not go any way, it must be driving on the prescribed route. Local governments plan routes based on the decentralization of students’ residence and the location of the school. School buses can take bus lines in cities, operate in designated lines in rural areas, and stop at fixed sites, so as to solve everyone's concerns about increasing traffic congestion on school buses.

It is also important for school buses to limit speeds and limit loads. These are important measures for reducing accidents. However, some school bus manufacturers are now manufacturing gimmicks on vehicle power systems, citing how the power system is and increasing the cost of school buses. In fact, after the speed limit of school buses, the requirements for the power system are not high; on the contrary, some costs can be reduced. This should attract attention.

6 <br> <br> clear legal responsibility for illegal use of the vehicle or to provide school bus service, fails to perform security management responsibilities, were provided for legal liability, including held criminally responsible.

According to the division of the population more conducive to interpreting [interpretation] In the penalties section, Yuan Guilin proposed in the previous discussions, many of the draft comments are examples, if there is a specific violation, it is not easy to blame, easy to shirk. In his opinion, it is best to use the crowd as a clue. For example, what vehicles the manufacturer wants to produce; what vehicles the operating company wants to purchase; how the driver should operate the driver; what the behavior of the car's caretaker is; how the school principal educates the student; what the parents have responsibility for; What are the behavioral requirements; what is the responsibility of the government? According to the crowd, rather than according to things, different identities, different groups of people have different requirements, it must be meaningful to say this step.

Different people saw what they had to do, so that they could do their duty and the school bus would be truly safe. The security issue is not a trivial matter, the responsibility issue is not stated clearly, and the educational value of the bill is gone.

â–¡ Beijing's focus on the development of rural school buses Beijing Municipal Education Commissioner Ye Maolin said before that Beijing's development of school buses should first ensure that the nearest school admission principle, reduce the number of students on long-distance journeys; optimize bus routes to develop public transportation to solve urban student ride problems. Beijing's focus on solving school buses should be in rural areas, especially the transportation needs of boarding students in mountain areas.

The reporter learned from the Municipal Education Commission that at present, there are more than 500 school buses registered in this Municipality, including school-owned vehicles, social-provided vehicles, and vehicles provided by co-construction units. More numbers.

After the school bus accident occurred outside the city last year, the Municipal Education Administration Bureau's joint education system thoroughly cleared the use of school buses and school buses in all schools. From November last year to January this year, the city had checked 505 registered school buses and 538 school bus drivers, and found that 23 of them did not meet the security conditions and instructed the users to make replacements.

The Municipal Education Commission has asked the education departments at all levels to investigate the safety hazards of the existing school buses, and proposed a speed limit of 60 kilometers for school buses, and requests for stops in extreme weather such as heavy snowfall and heavy fog.

The Municipal Education Commission and the Municipal Traffic Management Bureau said yesterday that in the next step, Beijing will formulate corresponding measures on how to develop school buses and how to plan their layout in accordance with the relevant regulations on school bus management issued by the State.

Regulations On September 26, 2011, 7 junior high school students died in the school bus accident in Shanxi. On November 16, a school bus accident in Gansu killed 19 children, and on November 26, a school bus accident in Liaoning, 35 children were injured...

On November 27, 2011, Premier Wen Jiabao demanded at the Fifth National Women and Children Work Conference that "the Legislative Affairs Office must formulate the "School Car Safety Regulations" within one month."

On December 11, 2011, the State Council’s legal office cloth “School Car Safety Regulations (draft)” solicited opinions and sought public opinions from the whole society. The deadline was January 11, 2012.

On January 13, 2012, two national compulsory standards for “Special School Bus Safety Technical Conditions”, “Special School Bus Seating Systems and Their Strength for Vehicle Mounts” passed the review.

On January 17, 2012, the Legal Affairs Office of the State Council stated that a total of 2,818 person-times had put forward 7,030 opinions, which mainly focused on the ten hot spots and put forward many different opinions and suggestions: 1. Is it the nearest school or school bus? 2. Should children and high school students use school buses? 3. Is the high school bus standard feasible? 4. Did the education department take the lead or other departments take the lead? 5. Should school bus operations be marketized? 6. Are driver qualifications more stringent? 7. Should school buses have priority? 8. Should schools send escort attendants? 9. Should we add legal responsibility? Is the 10.3 year transition period long or short?

On March 5th, 2012, “Strengthen school bus safety management to ensure children's personal safety.” The school bus safety issue was first written into the government work report.