On the afternoon of March 3, while the right wing of the Self-Defense Forces was still under construction, the fifth session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) will officially open. The third part of "The Wind and Clouds," chapter 623, reports that middle schools require teachers and students to bow and greet each other when they meet. Gatherings involve shouting slogans of gratitude.
Hanshufang Novel Network www.hanshufang.com offers more chapters with faster updates. A press conference will be held at 3 p.m. today in the Great Hall of the People. According to the schedule, the press conference will be held in the Golden Hall on the third floor of the Great Hall of the People this afternoon, where Zhao Qizheng, spokesman for the meeting, will introduce the situation of the meeting and answer questions from reporters. During the meeting, the CPPCC will also hold two press conferences at the Great Hall of the People. The Media Center for the Two Sessions at Meidiya will host four press conferences, inviting CPPCC members to discuss hot issues such as housing security, educational equity, and medical reform.
Hanshufang Novel Network www.hanshufang.com offers more chapters with faster updates. Special correspondents Sun Lanlan reported: Over 3000 journalists are attending the Two Sessions to chase representatives and committee members. The annual national Two Sessions will convey a large amount of information related to national planning and people's livelihood, naturally becoming a stage for domestic and foreign journalists to compete. Yesterday, it was learned that over 3000 Chinese and foreign journalists have registered to cover the Two Sessions, including nearly 900 foreign journalists and over 600 Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan journalists.
The press center for the "Two Sessions" is located at the Meidiya Center on the north side of West Chang'an Street, responsible for issuing credentials to Chinese and foreign journalists, organizing relevant interviews, and arranging news releases. During the Two Sessions, several important press conferences will be held here.
Special correspondent Sun Lanlan reported: While most children are busy with their entrance exams to junior high school, Xu Yifei, a sixth-grade elementary school student from Suzhou, is "casually" becoming a writer—a 60,000-word diary collection is set to be published next month. This 10-year-old child has even "attracted" Zhu Yongxin, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and vice president of the China Education Association, to write a preface for him and call for reforms in the current education model, advocating "new education."
This year's Two Sessions have added fuel to the already heated topic of education.
□ Special Correspondent Zheng Chunping Lu Wei
The busiest person
Wrote a preface for a young author early in the morning
On March 1, Zhu Yongxin recorded on his real-name Sina Weibo account what he was busy with early in the morning: "I wrote a preface for a ten-year-old child's diary collection. The child's name is Xu Yifei, and he attends the Second Experimental Primary School of Suzhou Industrial Park, which is one of our new education experimental schools. Vice Principal Xu Bin is also my good friend. Principal Xu introduced that he is a very sunny child, excels academically, loves sports—good at basketball, football, table tennis, and piano. The book introduces what he saw and heard in the distant southern hemisphere."
With the opening of the Two Sessions approaching, as a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and also the vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party, Zhu Yongxin's busyness can be imagined. What kind of child and what kind of diary could make him willing to spend so much time personally writing a preface? Last night, Zhu Yongxin told the reporter in a phone interview that this is an exceptionally excellent child, and you will know after reading his diary.
And the mode of "new education" embodied in this diary and this 10-year-old young author is precisely what Zhu Yongxin values, and this may be the important reason why he gladly wrote the preface.
Fast Connection
How many Xus Yifeis are there in reality?
Suzhou primary school student to publish a 60,000-word diary collection
Xu Yifei, 10 years old, currently attends Class 6(3) of the Second Experimental Primary School of Suzhou Industrial Park. What special travel experiences does this "young author" have? What did he write in his diary?
Last night, his mother Ms. Shen told the reporter that on May 8 last year, Xiao Yifei went to Australia with the school study tour group and participated in an 8-week study activity, writing a diary of over 60,000 words. The diary records exactly this journey: experiencing the primary school classroom in Australia, entering Australian family life, and seeing koalas and kangaroos... In April, Shanghai Sanlian Publishing House will officially publish the book under the title "56 Days, My Australian Study Tour."
In comparison, although Ms. Shen sees her son Xiao Yifei's writing style as somewhat naive, it is equally precious because it is filled with genuine feelings.
Xiao Yifei wrote in his diary: "The greatest distance in the world is not between life and death, but talking to mom on the phone yet not being able to be together." Ms. Shen said, if it were not for the deep and true feelings, how would such words be put down in writing? She wrote in "Mom's Words": "Perhaps his perspective is limited, his understanding shallow or even biased, and his writing simple and clumsy, but what does that matter? From his diary, I read the love and passion of a ten-year-old boy for life."
Not worrying about the child's "competitiveness"
It is worth noting that in the Second Experimental Primary School of Suzhou Industrial Park, there are quite a number of students like Xiao Yifei. Leaving home at a young age and going abroad for exchange studies requires not only the willingness of the child and the parents' sacrifice, but also the support of the school's educational model. However, once these children enter the existing competitive system, do they have competitiveness?
In the view of Xu Bin, vice principal of the Second Experimental Primary School of Suzhou Industrial Park, there is no need to worry about this point at all. The school is a public school. "The children we cultivate must first have national sentiment, secondly have a global vision, and thirdly have the perspective of earthlings." The Suzhou Industrial Park is one of the most developed development zones in the country, so the internationalization of the school is relatively strong. There are more than 100 foreign students, and the school has close exchanges with Canada, the UK, Australia, and other countries. Xu Bin said that although the children cultivated in this way have many shortcomings common to only children, they also have many valuable advantages, such as strong independence and strong communication and understanding abilities among people.
The educational model becomes a hot topic this year
This school is also one of the new education experimental schools advocated by Zhu Yongxin. So-called new education means changing the survival state of students, not letting children bear too much psychological pressure; changing the walking way of teachers, allowing teachers to fully enjoy the happiness and joy brought by the profession itself; changing the development model of schools, getting out of the vicious circle of scores...
However, achieving these is not easy. Just yesterday, almost at the same time as Zhu Yongxin posted his Weibo message, the 21st Century Education Research Institute released the "Education Blue Book: China Education Development Report (2011)" in Beijing. One survey showed that the time investment by parents of primary school students in arranging extracurricular training for their children was significantly higher than that of students at other stages, and the expenditure by parents of high school students on extracurricular training was far higher than that of students at other stages. In other words, most children are still immersed in various kinds of extracurricular training every day.
Educational issues are also one of the biggest hot topics of this year's Two Sessions. National People's Congress representative and TCL Group Chairman Li Dongsheng launched a special activity to encourage netizens to actively offer advice, giving away five copies of the inspirational new book "The Rebirth of Eagles" every day based on everyone's feedback opinions, totaling 100 copies.
As soon as the "call for proposals" was issued, it immediately attracted the attention and comments of many netizens. "By February 28, a total of 1575 Sina netizens had made valuable suggestions, and the most reflected issue was education, accounting for 36% of the total proportion." Li Dongsheng said.
And in the above situation that makes everyone "puzzled", how many "Xu Yifeis" there are is really a question mark.
Hot Topics of the Two Sessions
Will ride a bike to the meeting and distribute Lei Feng picture albums
Chen Guangbiao gave away bicycles for free in Beijing yesterday
Will ride a bike to the meeting and distribute Lei Feng picture albums
On March 1, Chen Guangbiao, who is about to attend the fifth session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, distributed 2000 bicycles and 10,000 eco-friendly bags at the Yue Tan Stadium in Beijing. National Committee Member Pu Cunxin was also invited by Chen Guangbiao to come to the scene to distribute bicycles. Last night, Chen Guangbiao told the reporter in an interview that he will ride a bicycle to attend the CPPCC meeting as in the previous two years. In addition, Chen Guangbiao also said that during the Two Sessions, he will distribute 400 sets of Lei Feng picture albums to committee members to promote the spirit of Lei Feng.
Chen Guangbiao said that one-third of the bicycles were distributed in the morning, but due to the disorder at the distribution site, the organizers had to temporarily stop the distribution. By around 9 p.m. last night, all 2000 bicycles and 10,000 eco-friendly bags were distributed.
To encourage Beijing citizens who took away bicycles to ride them, Chen Guangbiao specially printed slogans on the bicycles he distributed, saying, "'Carbon Brother' Chen Guangbiao gives, ride it home, if you don't ride it, you're 'a little dog'!"
[Reporter Experience]
Bus-only lanes
Are also a bit congested
Yesterday afternoon, the reporter started from Xuanwumen Outer, heading to the Meidiya News Center. The distance between the two places is about 10 kilometers. The rainy weather made the already congested Beijing city even harder to navigate. Wanting to take a taxi, but after waiting for a long time, no empty car was seen; thinking of taking the bus instead, there was a bus stop nearby. After asking the volunteer responsible for maintaining order at the bus stop, there happened to be a bus that could directly reach near Meidiya,
However, during the wait for the bus, the reporter had to abandon this idea: this section has a bus-only lane, but many social vehicles squeezed into the lane, making the originally unobstructed bus-only lane not so smooth either. "Let's take the subway instead, at this time, the roads are congested everywhere. Taking the bus is too slow," the volunteer advised the reporter.
The reporter observed that in such a congested Beijing, riding a bicycle should be a good choice. However, there were few cyclists on the road.
[Representative Proposal]
Give more road rights
To public transportation
Wang Jing, a national representative from Hubei, is a frontline bus driver. Her proposal brought to the national "Two Sessions" this year is to vigorously develop the rapid bus system and give more road rights to public transportation.
Wang Jing suggested accelerating the construction of BRT (Rapid Bus Lanes) in medium and large cities. Rapid bus system vehicles mainly operate on fully enclosed dedicated lanes, similar to rail transit, but the cost is less than one-tenth of rail transit construction. In conjunction with the construction of the BRT system, the government should also build and ensure bus-only lanes, priority single-lane buses, reverse single-lane buses, etc., so that buses are truly convenient and fast.
Special Correspondents Zhang Yu and Sun Lanlan
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