Recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Transport and the General Office of the Ministry of Education jointly issued the "Notice on Continuously Deepening Water Traffic Safety Education for Primary and Secondary School Students" (referred to as the "Notice"), requiring local maritime, education, and transportation departments to use multiple forms and channels. Carry out water traffic safety education for primary and secondary school students across the country, and strive to improve their awareness and ability of water traffic safety prevention.
This "Notice" further standardizes various measures for water traffic safety education for primary and secondary school students, and deploys "improving the water traffic safety education system for primary and secondary school students", "organizing on-site themed education activities on water traffic safety" and "enriching water traffic safety lines for primary and secondary school students". Five specific tasks, including "propaganda and education", "strengthening water traffic safety education for primary and secondary school students in rural and remote areas" and "carrying out water traffic safety warnings and reminders", provide important guidance for the normalization of water traffic safety education for primary and secondary school students in the future.
The "Notice" pointed out that maritime affairs, education, and transportation departments at all levels should formulate implementation plans for deepening water traffic safety education for primary and secondary school students at the provincial level this year, and promote water traffic safety education for primary and secondary school students to be included in the safety production assessment of local party committees and governments. It is necessary to establish a multi-party linkage mechanism between local governments, schools, families and society, and improve the water traffic safety education system of "campus education + family education + online education + social practice education". Among them, local education departments should promote the inclusion of water traffic safety, drowning prevention and water travel safety knowledge into the safety education content of primary and secondary schools, and make regular water traffic safety education one of the standards for creating a "safe campus", and guide primary and secondary schools to carry out various forms of safety education. Water traffic safety education activities; maritime departments at all levels should make full use of maritime vessels and maritime bases to organize students and parents to participate in practical activities such as "Navigation Summer Camp" and "Beach Classroom" to continuously enhance primary and secondary school students' safety awareness and self-rescue and mutual rescue skills.
Targeting rural areas, especially remote areas where drowning incidents are common, the "Notice" clarifies that maritime affairs, education, and transportation departments at all levels should urge local governments to increase investment in the construction of water transportation safety infrastructure and publicity and education in the above-mentioned areas, and organize regular volunteers The volunteer team carries out water traffic safety education and volunteer services. At the same time, it is necessary to use various channels such as on-site, online, and public service advertisements to carry out extensive water transportation at important times such as "National Primary and Secondary School Students Safety Education Day", "China Maritime Day", winter and summer vacations, legal holidays, and opening ceremonies. Safety promotion and drowning prevention safety reminders.
In addition, the "Notice" also put forward specific requirements for jointly selecting and identifying a number of water traffic safety science education bases and social practice bases, promoting water traffic safety education teacher training, and establishing water traffic safety public welfare management positions and special funds.
It is reported that since 2013, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Education have jointly organized and carried out water traffic safety education activities for primary and secondary school students. At present, it has formed a collection of water traffic safety knowledge learning, drowning prevention knowledge popularization, self-rescue and mutual rescue practice, blue land A comprehensive water traffic safety education pattern for primary and secondary school students that integrates education and water-related cultural experiences. In 2021 alone, more than 1,500 related theme educations have been carried out across the country, benefiting more than 3 million students.
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