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中国校车事故谁来守护祖国的花朵？！Chinese School Bus CrashWho can Protect Our Children? 编者案：16日9时40分许，甘肃省庆阳一大翻斗运煤货车与当地幼儿园接送车迎面相撞，造成20人死亡，其中18名是儿童，一名司机和一名老师。据介绍，发生事故的校车核载9人，实载64人，严重超载。我们在电视或报纸上看到这样的事故不止起了。为什么这样的事故一再发生？怎样才能避免其发生？怎样或者是谁来守护我们的孩子们祖国的未来？这些问题需要我们每一个中国人去思考。这则新闻震惊了全中国人民并在中国引起了对校车标的激烈讨论。From the authors report: At 9:4o on the 16th, in Qingyang city of Gansu province, twenty people died when their school minibus was rammed head-on by a coaltruck, and eighteen of them were preschoolers. The bus driver and a teacher also died, and 44 children were injured. The bus with just nine seats, had been carrying 64 people, which was badly overloaded. We have seen the accidents of these kinds more than once. Why do the accidents of these kinds happen again and again? How to avoid its occurrence? How to or who can protect our children-the future of country? These questions deserve every Chinese people to think over. This piece of news is a great shock to all Chinese people, and it has been stirring up a fierce discuss about the standard of school bus in China.来自中国产经新闻报刘红霞的报道“美国校车，卡车撞上去成了废铁，校车没事；中国校车，卡车撞上去，校车成废铁，卡车没事。”网友在唏嘘中调侃的一句话，看似有些恶搞，但也真实反映出中国校车的确有些“不堪一击”。相比之下，美国校车与其他车辆相撞，几乎从不“吃亏”。其实，中国并不缺乏校车国标，并且借鉴的还是美国校车标准。国家有关部委牵头制定并发布了专用小学生校车安全技术条件，于2010年7月1日起实施。不过，遗憾的是，这个标准只涉及小学的校车，而对于其他学校的校车尤其是更经常发生问题的幼儿园校车没有制定强制标准。同时，这个标准也只是一个设计和制造标准，并没有相应的管理法规来规定，谁来买这种校车，谁来营运，谁来监管，不使用这种校车会有什么后果。因此，该标准实施后，“山寨校车”依然横行。当然，“山寨校车”的横行还来源于校车经营长期“入不敷出”，学校根本支付不起高昂的买车以及养车的资金。在这么一个大环境下，国内的校车怎么可能会安全？因此，有不少观点认为，增大财政对学前教育的投入，由政府提供校车补贴是避免“校车夺命”现象再次出现的根本方法。也有人建议政府减税，还钱于民，让民众自助解决校车问题。-刘红霞中国产经新闻报“If a truck hits on the American school bus, the truck goes into scrap metal and the school bus is all right; while it seems opposite to Chinese school bus.” This sentence seems a spoof coming from the web-users, but it also trulyreflects that Chineseschool busis indeed kind ofvulnerable. In contrast,the U.S.school buscollidedwithanother vehicle, almost neverlose.In fact,China does not lacknational standard of school bus, and it draws on the experience of American school bus. Some relevant ministries worked out and issued a the safetyand technical conditions for pupils special school buses,and the conditions started to be implemented on the first of January, in 2010. But,unfortunately,this standardinvolves onlyelementaryschool bus. As forother school buses, especiallykindergartens which have more problems,there are no mandatory standards forthem. At the same time,this standardis onlya designandmanufacturing standards, andno correspondingregulationsto provide for whoboughttheschool bus,who willoperate,who will monitor,what will happen if people dont use this buses.Therefore, after thestandard implementation, the shanzaischool bus is stillrampant.Of course, the origin of the rampant “shanzai school bus” is because of “deficits” of the school bus operation. The schoolsimplycan not afford theexpensivefunds to buy and keep this bus. Insuch an environment, how could the school bus be safe in the country? Therefore,many people think that the basic method of avoiding the “deadly school bus” is increasingfinancialinvestment inpre-school education, and the government provides some school bus subsidy. It is alsosuggested thatthe government have some tax cutsand pay back the moneyto the people,so that peoplecan solve the school busproblem.-It came from Chinese Chan Ching Investing News, Liu HongxiaReports from the Associated PressSuch overcrowding on school buses is common in China, and accidents happen frequently because of poorly maintained vehicles and poor driving habits.Beijing has made a concerted effort to rebuild and improve a public education system that had withered with the collapse of centrally planned socialism in the 1990s. Central government spending on education has steadily grown in recent years, rising a projected 16 per cent this year to 296 billion yuan ($46 billion), about three-quarters of it given to local governments.The overall figures mask great disparities, with rural areas and small cities like Qingyang chronically short of funds. Some local governments lack funds to pay teachers, who in egregious cases have charged parents extra fees to teach their children the required curriculum.Little Doctor Kindergarten, however, falls outside the formal school system. Privately run, the school serves mostly children from farming families, according to the education bureau of Zhengning county.Qingyang and its surrounding rural areas have seen fast, chaotic growth in recent years. The area sits amid arid hills along the middle reaches of the Yellow River, where Chinese civilization first flourished but which is now known for its poverty. Rural incomes in the region average about 3,660 yuan ($570) per person, about one-fourth the level of city dwellers. More than 120,000 rural residents in the area lack access to clean drinking water.这种校车人满为患的情况在中国很普遍；同时，因为维修不善的车辆和不良的驾驶习惯使得意外事故经常发生。北京已作出用协调一致的努力去重建和完善的公共教育系统，但却随着20世纪90年代的社会主义中央计划经济的崩溃枯萎。近年来，中央政府对教育的支出稳步增长，今年在预计的基础上又提升16达到296亿元人民币（约合46亿美元），大约占地方政府教育总投入的四分之三。整体数字掩盖了很大的差距，造成农村和小城市，如庆阳长期缺乏资金。一些地方政府缺乏资金来支付教师工资，以至于造成恶性情况，老师收取额外费用来教导家长子女所需要的课程。然而，小博士幼儿园不属于正规学校系统。根据正宁县教育局陈述，其学校私人经营，学校接受的儿童大多是来自农村家庭。近年来，庆阳市及其周边的农村地区已经出现快速但混乱的发展。该地区位于中国文明的发源地-黄河中游，但现在却以其贫穷闻名。此地区的农村平均每人约3,660元（$ 570）收入，大约是城市居民收入水平的四分之一。在该地区有超过12万地农村居民缺乏干净的饮用水。My opinions:I think everyone of us should cherish life, but lots of people ignore it. The driver of the accident should drive the bus, with just nine seats while carrying 64 people, which is the overlook for the life. Today there are more and more people have private cars. Many people think that driving on the road is an easy thing. There are more and more people go the driving training school. While just because of the so many people, it makes the training school hard to guarantee trainees quality, which also is the overlook for life.Though the related people got their punishment, it still cant heal the scar carving in the peopl