Beijing Times: Ask children to have priority in social welfare

Beijing Times: Ask children to have priority in social welfare
Since " children have priority " With " children's welfare " Accord with the international practice, and write into development outlines of children of our country, then ask in the social welfare is supplied " children have priority " . The child ticket height standard of the railway transport of passengers is adjusted, there is limitation that the social observer nitpicks this good news, also experts and scholars say, by the look of development trend, to regard age as the ticket buying standard is more scientific than the height. Should say, substitute the suggestion of the height with age, really correspond to reality even more, but propose not still jumping out the inertia thinking of having in mind technological aspect. Need to clarify a prerequisite at first, the standard of the child ticket is adjusted, it is the pricing range of the service of railway transport of passengers that is adjusted, another definition that children should enjoy rights. In other words, this is finally that a child enjoys the problem with favourable railway transport of passengers, or the society should meet the question of welfare demands of children. The intersection of railway transport of passengers and the intersection of child ticket and the intersection of half price and system, the intersection of children and little the intersection of space and little, the intersection of weight and light, the intersection of service and demand accounted for by bus, should comply with a people's livelihood welfare of international practice essentially. Our country acceded to the United Nations " child's right convention " at the beginning of the 1990s of last century, this convention is pointed out: About all actions of children's, should be considering primarily with children's most benefit. Just under this kind of idea, the social welfare of some children of developed country has surmounted adult's welfare, having contained a plurality of respects such as nutrition, wearing clothes, house, among them include regarding age as more standard children to reduce or remit the ticket system by bus too. Our government issued <>Also confirmed in the total goal " Children have priority " The principle, the country should reflect " children have priority " while making relevant laws and regulations and policy The principle, help children to develop. Meanwhile, this outline proposes " children's welfare " clearly The concept, should increase the input in children's welfare project. According to this, the standard of the child ticket adjusts science or not, does not lie in height standards increases by 10 centimetres are still more, do not lie in substituting the height with age and regarding as and limiting the standard either, but lie in establishing welfare ideas of children at first, and adjust the child ticket under the guidance of this idea. Though our country can not still reach the social welfare level of the developed country at present, regard increasing children's welfare prerequisite that child ticket adjust gradually as, at least can clarify, improve idea by some system leant towards to run, and do forward to the gradually full and round social welfare side. For example, student concession ticket and child ticket, though is half price, and the constant improvement of the proportion with receiving an education together, the student concession ticket has connected half price of child ticket, but this kind of classification does not accord with the demands for children's welfare. Under welfare ideas of children, children reduce or remit for 18 years old when the ticket system should expand to international practice, discuss the preferential policy of the student concession ticket above 18 years old. Likewise, take the standard of the child ticket into consideration to adjust with welfare ideas of children, should be improving the age standard free of charge constantly, narrow the block of age of the ticket at half price. Favour and welfare are two different concepts, so, the direction of the reform is to increase the coverage rate of social welfare, but not make walking around on the favourable restriction standard. Since our social welfare still can't accomplish in one move, since " children have priority " With " children's welfare " Accord with the international practice, and write into development outlines of children of our country, then ask in the social welfare is supplied " children have priority " . Certainly, if like this, it is not what Ministry of Railways " passenger transport rules of the railway " can adjust that the child ticket limits the standard, and unify the norm in system of higher aspect. (special commentator Wang YanMing)

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