Regarding the Ministry of Communications’ plan to establish a wide range of school-to-school trails, Minister of Education Pan Wenzhong said in an interview that making it safe for children to go to and from school is the goal of the joint efforts of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Transportation.

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[Reporter Lin Xiaoyun/Taipei Report] The Ministry of Communications plans to strive for 5 billion yuan in funding to set up commuting trails in 446 schools across the country. The goal is to complete it by the end of this year.

Minister of Education Pan Wenzhong said in an interview that the Ministry of Education will continue to cooperate with the Ministry of Transportation to make it safer for children to go to school. This is the goal of the joint efforts of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Transportation.

According to statistics from the Road Safety Information Platform of the Ministry of Communications, there have been 24,125 traffic accident casualties among children under the age of 12 in the past three years, among which 1,626 children were accidents that occurred when they were "pedestrians". Every child is precious , especially under the declining birth rate, one less child is a loss to the country. The Jingjuan Foundation has been advocating the establishment of school trails to protect children's safety.

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Pan Wenzhong went to the Education Committee of the Legislative Yuan to give a special report on "Transitional Justice Tasks and the Promotion of Human Rights Education". Regarding the Ministry of Communications' plan to set up school-commuting trails in schools across the country, the interview before the meeting said that the Ministry of Education will continue to work with the Ministry of Communications on this aspect Discussion, because maintaining the safety of students going to and from school has always been an important matter that the Executive Yuan, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Communications will continue to work on, including the improvement of traffic intersections. This part of the Ministry of Education asks schools to provide a lot of improvements that need to be made The intersection, including the joint efforts of the Construction and Construction Department and the General Administration of Highways, has been continuously and gradually improving.

Pan Wenzhong said that for some dangerous or frequent traffic intersections, after cross-departmental coordination, traffic professionals with more supervision and guidance can be provided, whether it is free traffic or traffic police assistance, this part will continue. The Ministry of Communications is currently Thinking about safe paths to school, the Ministry of Education will continue to cooperate with the Ministry of Communications in this regard. It is the goal of our joint efforts to make our children go to school safer.