Many rural primary schools in Hebei were exposed without heating. The County Commission for Discipline Inspection seriously pursued it.
Beijing Morning News (Reporter Liu Jia) Recently, some media exposed the incident that "many rural primary schools in Hebei were exposed to no heating, and some primary school students suffered from frostbite". Yesterday, the Ministry of Education responded at a regular press conference, saying: I hope local governments, education departments and schools can take this as a warning and really take care of the children’s warmth and coldness.
"The Ministry of Education has noticed relevant media reports. We are very distressed by these children and are very anxious. This reveals from the side that some of our local governments still have problems at the working level. " Xu Mei, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, said that the Ministry of Education attached great importance to this and the leaders of the Ministry made important instructions to quickly solve the heating problem in primary and secondary schools. On December 5th, the Office of the State Council Education Steering Committee has issued a supervision notice to the relevant provinces, hoping that the relevant provinces and cities can attach great importance to it, quickly identify the situation, quickly solve the problems, and ensure the normal development of education and teaching.
"On December 5, some places have promised to establish a check and reform, and promised to solve the children’s heating problem on the same day. I think this is the right attitude and action. This incident reflects that children’s affairs are no small matter. I hope that local grass-roots governments, education departments and schools can take this as a warning, truly take the children’s warmth and coldness to heart, truly take students as the foundation, and protect the interests of students, so that children can grow up healthily under a relatively good condition. " Xu Mei said.
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All the primary schools involved have been temporarily heated.
On December 5th, a report by China Youth Daily entitled "Many primary schools in Quyang, Hebei Province have not been heated so far" attracted much attention. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the head of the news section of the Propaganda Department of Quyang County Committee said that all the 11 primary schools that were not heated at 3 o’clock in the afternoon had achieved temporary heating, and electric heating would be realized at 6 o’clock in the afternoon on the 6 th. In addition, the county commission for discipline inspection has set up a special investigation team on this matter.
China Youth Daily reported that recently, the lowest temperature in Quyang County, Baoding City, Hebei Province has been below zero degrees Celsius. However, many rural schools failed to provide heating on time because the "coal to electricity" renovation project was not completed on time. In an interview with Xiaokoukou Primary School in Qicun Town, Quyang County, the reporter saw that there were no heating facilities in the classroom. The coal-fired stove used for heating before had been dismantled, and many primary school students had frostbite.
The North Provincial Department of Education issued a notice requesting the municipal education administrative departments to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the winter heating work in primary and secondary schools within their jurisdiction. At all levels, we should find one school that has abnormal heating, arbitrarily shortened heating time, lowered heating standards, and has hidden dangers in heating safety, and rectify one. For serious problems caused by heating in winter, we should seriously investigate and deal with them, and hold the relevant units and personnel accountable.
The person in charge of the news section of the Propaganda Department of Quyang County Committee revealed that the County Commission for Discipline Inspection has set up a special investigation team on the unheated problems of 11 schools before, and investigated their related responsibilities.