On the 30th, the Jingjuan Foundation held a traffic safety promotion event at Mingchuan Elementary School in Taipei City. Vice President Lai Chingde attended the event as the captain and visited the exhibition of traffic safety education achievements.

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[Reporter Lin Xiaoyun/Taipei Report] Today is September 30th, which is also the last week of the National Traffic Month. In view of the fact that 66 children are injured in traffic accidents every day, the Jingjuan Children's Safety Culture and Education Foundation vigorously promotes the safety of school children. Today Vice President Lai Qingde was invited to be the captain of the national traffic safety team, Chen Yanbo, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Transport, and Lin Tengjiao, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Education, were invited to serve as the captain of the traffic safety team. Traffic safety concept.

Lai Qingde said in his speech that my country is facing a crisis of declining birthrate. Last year, 153,000 newborns were born, and 158,000 died unfortunately. The number of births is less than the number of deaths. "Life is better than death." This is a very serious issue for Taiwan. 2,990 people died in accidents, 101 people aged 0-17, an increase of 12% over the previous year, traffic accidents were the most injured in children under 12 years old, and 60% occurred when crossing the road. For children, the road is like a tiger's mouth, and the western Advanced countries began to promote traffic safety education in the 1990s, and South Korea launched traffic security cartoon education five years ago, with good results.

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Lai Qingde emphasized that the government must stand on the front line to maintain the safety of children, and the epidemic prevention work is full of problems. It is very important to let the public understand. After SARS, the Infectious Disease Prevention Law was revised, the government can use TV public welfare time for publicity, and the Ministry of Communications can strengthen it by comparison. Traffic safety promotion, like epidemic prevention ambassadors, set up traffic safety ambassadors and broadcast them through the media during the traffic month. It is hoped that the promotion will start next year. On behalf of President Tsai Ing-wen, he also thanked Jingjuan for her years of efforts to protect the safety of children, and affirmed that Jingjuan is like a child. Guardian Angel.

Chen Yanbo and Lin Tengjiao incarnated at the event site as the captains of the Jiao Security Team, and together with the Beishi Mingchuan Elementary School children, they demonstrated the safety key points such as pedestrian crossing and riding bicycles.

Chen Yanbo said that in the past two years, he has cooperated with the Ministry of Education and the Jingjuan Foundation to develop digital teaching materials for children's traffic safety and promote traffic safety education to the bottom.

Lin Tengjiao said that the Ministry of Education set up a traffic safety education task force, with Minister Pan Wenzhong as the convener, and cooperated with the Ministry of Communications to improve the dangerous road sections around schools, strengthen motorcycle driving training for college students, and comprehensively promote communication from courses, teaching materials, and teacher empowerment. An education.

Lin Yueqin, CEO of Jingjuan Foundation, said that in the past five years (from 2010 to 2011), an average of 24,309 children between the ages of 6 and 17 were killed or injured in traffic accidents every year, which means that 66 children are involved in traffic accidents every day. Among the casualties in the middle school, pedestrian accidents are most likely to occur in elementary schools, bicycle accidents in middle schools, and motorcycle accidents in high schools. In response to the number of accidents, the Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Education continue to promote traffic safety education in schools for high-risk situations.

Lin Yueqin also said that since 2010, Jingjuan has trained little yellow hat volunteer lecturers to teach in class, produced and distributed traffic safety game books, etc., to introduce the concept of traffic safety into schools and families. South Korea promotes Daoan cartoons through national power. Education and advocacy, the number of child casualties has been reduced by half in the past five years, as long as you start to do it, you can see results.