Jinxi. Photo provided by the interviewee
China Youth Daily·China Youth Network reporter Zhang Miao
Jin Xi has poor eyesight, but he has studied a lot.
This young man, who graduated from the School of Law of Ningbo University, passed the national judicial examination and obtained the lawyer qualification. Today, he is still studying for a Master of Law from Syracuse University in the United States and a PhD in Law from Soochow University in Taiwan.
In fact, in the past 30 years, there was only a little blurry light in his sight. He suffers from "congenital visual impairment" and can no longer tell the color of the balloon at the age of 6. But he insisted on studying in an ordinary school until he took the college entrance examination.
In the 2020 National College Entrance Examination, a total of 5 all-blind candidates took the exam with Braille papers. According to the reasonable and convenient regulations for the college entrance examination, the total examination time for visually impaired candidates will be extended by 50%, and there will be no additional points.
, and more people with vision impairment did not enter the college entrance examination room. As a former "visually impaired candidate", Kim Hee has been providing legal advice and legal aid to the disabled for many years, and more than 600 people have received his help. Some people who are visually impaired look for him because they cannot pass the approval of the insurance company, and some are unable to provide autographs or write informed consent terms, and are refused business by the bank.
In recent months, Jin Xi has joined a public welfare organization to help visually impaired groups find jobs.
He posted a voice public class online, sharing his experiences, calling and sending WeChat to those who seek help, helping them plan their careers.
Some of the people who found this charity organization have been studying in a blind school since childhood. Now they graduate from college and are facing employment problems. Some people try to take the postgraduate entrance examination, but after three years of taking the exam, they don’t pass the exam, and want to try to find a job first and take into account the further studies. Some people have been working in the hospital for several years after graduating from university, and their lives are stable, but they "want to explore and make breakthroughs more." Some people once had good eyesight, but later their condition worsened and were unemployed at home, wanting to find a direction for their lives again.
"Many visually impaired people feel that they can only do massage in the future, but their lives actually have many possibilities." Jin Xi said with emotion.
Liu Cong was blind the day after tomorrow and worked as a masseur for 8 years. He had been looking for other jobs, which was "very difficult". In 2016, Liu Cong participated in a training for a charity organization, and Jin Xi was doing legal consultation for the organization, and the two lived in the same dormitory.
Liu Cong said that Jin Xi was "super capable" and would do whatever he wanted. He talked with Kim Hee about the diversified employment of people with disabilities and asked him "whether there are any job opportunities", and Kim Hee introduced a disability charity organization. In the end, Liu Cong got a job as a copywriter.
In the circle of disabled people, Kim Hee is "very famous". There are many people who have heard him say "contact me if you have something to do", including disabled people who also want to work in law, public welfare people, ordinary college graduates, etc.
Bai Yan (pseudonym), who has asked Jin Xi for help, graduated from university this year. She studied psychology and just finished the teacher qualification certificate exam in Guangxi and passed the written test and interview assessment.
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the school requires her to be qualified as a teacher in Chongqing, where she is born. Bai Yan's vision is only 0.02, but in her opinion, poor vision does not mean that she is not competent for the relevant teaching work. Even if she can't go to an ordinary school, she is willing to go to a blind school to engage in mental health education for blind students. As far as she knows, there are 5 blind teachers in Chongqing Special Education Center in teaching positions.
"I was quite confused when I was a student. I didn't know what I could do in the future. I loved music when I was a child, but the teacher told me that this dream was unrealistic." Bai Yan told a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network. Like Bai Yan, there are many people who consulted Jin Xi because they failed the employment physical examination. The most well-known one is Zheng Rongquan, the first in Zhejiang Province to take the general college entrance examination in Braille. In 2019, Zheng Rongquan applied for the position of a teacher at a blind school in Nanjing, and passed the written test and interview with high scores, and was stuck in the physical examination. Through a friend's introduction, Zheng Rongquan once called Jin Xi to consult his suggestions.
Kim Hee has never attended a blind school. When he was in school, he listened to every word the teacher said with his ears, for fear of missing a sentence. For him, the words on the blackboard were blurry at first, and they could only be recognized by squinting their eyes. When he arrived in high school, the text on the book became little ants, crawling around in the light ball, and he couldn't see clearly even when he lay on the table. When doing homework, he had to put his face on the paper, often rubbing his face with ink.
vision took fifteen or sixteen years to completely stay away from him, and in the end there was only a faint light. But this failed to become his obstacle. He went to school, prepared for the exam, studied for graduate school, and worked as a lawyer.
He remembered that when he was a child, sometimes he couldn't read the blackboard clearly, so he asked the teacher to read it again. My deskmate would also help him and recite words to him, and he "thanks to the teachers and classmates."
Every time he takes an exam, he carries a magnifying glass with him. During the high school entrance examination, he held up a magnifying glass while painting the answer sheet, and the invigilator came to help him apply it.
"I felt very moved at that time." He told the reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network, "In that era, people actually did not have the so-called 'reasonable convenience' concept of rights, but they were able to make such choices based on a very simple and sense of justice in human nature. It takes time to establish a system to protect the rights of people with disabilities, but the basis for establishing a human nature has always existed."
Now in China, visually impaired candidates can use large-font test papers and answer sheets, and are allowed to carry Braille pens, Braille typewriters, optical magnifiers and other auxiliary devices or equipment.
In June 2007, Jin Xi sat in a separate college entrance examination room, and the invigilator helped him read the questions. The entire
English test paper is equivalent to listening to him, and mathematics relies almost entirely on mental arithmetic. Although he usually has good grades, he is still so nervous that he sweats. He was nearly blind and stuck in the answer sheet with a ruler, writing down answers that he could not see clearly at all, for fear of "overlapping or serializing".
He was eventually admitted to the Law Department of Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University. Two years later, he passed the Ningbo University "2+2" examination and transferred to the Law School of Ningbo University. In 2010, he took the judicial examination by reading questions with a special person, got a high score of 441 and passed. In the same year, he was the first in the whole grade and was admitted to become a master's degree student in the School of Law of Ningbo University. Now, he is still on the road to study.
Syracuse University and Soochow University both have special disability service offices. The school will formulate a complete learning plan for disabled students. After class, you can go to the professor's office and get courseware. The school also provided him with a special academic assistant.
Jin Xi learned that not only universities, but also local primary and secondary schools will also provide such "integrated education" convenience to students with disabilities.
reminds him of the audio courses he could listen to when preparing for judicial examinations in China, and the paper version of the real questions would be helpful for him to read. At that time, the college organized a volunteer group for him, and the classmates spontaneously signed up and lined up to assist him.
"Many times, we are moved by good people. I have a grateful heart. But if there is a good system, everyone doesn't have to live in a world waiting for good people to appear randomly. Whether you meet good people or ordinary people, your rights can be guaranteed."
When Kim Hee-gun went to Syracuse University, he was also grateful to the teachers in the Disability Service Office, but the other party felt strange, "This is just work."
"China has taken quite a lot in integrating education in recent years." Jin Xi recalled the changes she felt over the years. More than ten years ago, except for his more special cases, most visually impaired students could only participate in the single examination and single recruitment. The college entrance examination for Braille test papers has become popular in recent years. "The college entrance examination is a baton." Many exams have begun to follow suit, and Braille test papers have also appeared in the college English CET-4 and CET-6 and postgraduate admissions examinations.
Jin Xi wants to promote the further development of the protection of the rights and interests of disabled groups through efforts. He contributed articles to many public welfare organizations and also gave lectures to lawyers participating in legal aid training. Sometimes when he couldn't come to the scene, he would record videos and subtitles for the lawyer to see, and also for the deaf and visually impaired people present.
"Visually impaired lawyers can choose not to highlight their visually impaired identity in a society that is equal and inclusive enough. Back to reality, they have to accept this identity in many cases to deal with the challenges brought by visual impairment." A person in charge of a public welfare organization often cooperates with Kim Hee. In his opinion, Kim Hee should not be regarded as a "model of self-improvement in the disabled". Only by the exploration and advocacy of visually impaired lawyers in the fields of judicial protection and other fields are more valuable.
In an online course in May this year, Jin Xi shared a case he had represented: "What is the most valuable thing in 2020? A flight ticket to return home! People with disabilities may face various problems without anyone else accompanying them to take the plane."
In 2015, two disabled passengers were refused by the airline on the grounds that they "have no adult companionship and no ability to take care of themselves". Jin Xi was the agent of this case.
"This is a typical incident. At that time, there were still many things that airlines refused to carry (disabled passengers)." Jin Xi recalled that the Civil Aviation Administration had just issued air transportation management measures at that time, and had clear legal provisions on this situation, but the airline did not comply. The airline is willing to compensate and refuses to publicly apologize. But Kim Hee and the two parties involved felt that they should "fight for more rights for future generations." What they care more about than air ticket money is the equal travel rights of people with disabilities.
They won the case, and the court made judicial suggestions to the Civil Aviation Administration and the airline, hoping that the airlines can provide good travel guarantee for disabled passengers. Kim Hee later checked the airline's official website and said, "There are indeed revised rules."
"In fact, many regulations are found in laws and regulations, such as the regulations signed by banks, which are found by the China Banking Regulatory Commission, but many banks selectively ignore them." The young lawyer sighed.
A visually impaired person was rejected by the bank when applying for credit card activation due to "unable to read risk warning". The party involved proposed to use audio and video recording to show that he had known and agreed to the risk regulations of the credit card, but the bank did not approve it.
The attorney Wan Miaoyan, who is the attorney in this case, knows Jin Xi. When talking about him, Wan Miaoyan repeatedly emphasized "extreme business ability". After receiving this case, she called Kim Hee. In her opinion, banks should give the visually impaired "the right to self-determination to themselves, just like everyone else."
Jin Xi and Wan Miaoyan are preparing to submit the materials to the court to investigate the legal provisions. If he has any comments, he will summarize them into electronic documents and send them there, or discuss them over the phone.
"When I worked with Jin Xi, I didn't feel that he was a visually impaired." Wan Miaoyan sighed. They failed to win the case in
, but later, the bank took the initiative to contact the party and was willing to come to apply for a credit card for him.
"For visually impaired people, what they need help is only to form institutionalized and reasonable conveniences." Wan Miaoyan said. These reasonable conveniences of
should occur in all aspects of the lives of visually impaired people. However, in many places, there are still situations where blind paths are not easy to use or even occupied, and guide dogs are not allowed to take the bus. The image verification code in the software also makes it difficult for the visually impaired group. A visually impaired person even sued the 12306 ticket purchase platform for this, but lost the case. The judge believes that visually impaired people have other channels to purchase tickets. During the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in
this year, when the prevention and control first started, the health code mini program was incompatible with mobile phone screen reading. When visually impaired people travel, they will also be more exposed to infection sources such as handrails, railings, walls, and carriages, and it is difficult to keep a distance from others at any time.
A visually impaired person told reporters that the visually impaired group is more panicked than ordinary people, "there are fewer people in contact with and smaller social circles." The originally "full of unknowns" life is more uncertain, and they are very bored when staying at home.
Kim Xigang flew back to China from the United States. As a visually impaired person, he took a chartered flight from the embassy. He lives in his hometown in Wenzhou , and he wants to find some "fun" for the visually impaired group.
He took the lead in organizing a visually impaired game group called "Mixed Werewolf Kill". Everyone connected to the microphone with QQ voice and used the screen reading function of their smartphones to play the werewolf Kill game. They could save more than a dozen people every week.
According to the rules of the game, the "judge" character needs to say to the player "Please close your eyes when it is dark, and please open your eyes when it is dawn." A group of visually impaired people who are very active in playing have no discomfort at all by these statements.
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