Changsha Zhang Yuexian, Changsha held a theme event to celebrate June 1st and a forum on building a child-friendly city in Changsha

Looking to China, Changsha News on May 30, 2020 (Omni Media News Center Reporter Wang Yiqun) In order to promote the implementation of the "Changsha Three-Year Action Plan to Create a "Child-Friendly City" (2018-2020)", On the afternoon of May 30, 2020, Changsha City celebrated the Children’s Day theme event and the Children’s Forum on Building a Child-Friendly City in Changsha was held in Vanke Charming City. Vice Mayor Liu Mingli, Director of the Municipal Public Relations and Working Committee Dong Xiansheng, Deputy Secretary-General of the Municipal Government Zhang Yuexian, Municipal Women's Federation Party Leadership Group Secretary and Chairman Wen Fang, Changsha Vanke General Manager Li Li, as well as the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Education Bureau, Yuhua District Government, Furong District government and other leaders came to guide the event. More than 500 students, teachers, parents, women's federations and grassroots representatives from across the city participated in the main venue and branch venues.

This event is guided by the Changsha Municipal People's Government and the United Nations Children's Fund Office in China, hosted by the Changsha Women's Federation, Changsha Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, Changsha Development and Reform Commission, and Changsha Education Bureau. City Management and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau, Yuhua District People's Government, Furong District People's Government, Beijing Yongzhen Charity Foundation, co-organized by Changsha Vanke Enterprise Co., Ltd., Changsha Women and Children's Activity Center, Changsha Women's Federation Network New Media Center, Hunan University Organized by the Child Friendly Research Office of the School of Architecture, it is supported by the Yuhua District Women's Federation, Furong District Women's Federation, Yuhua District Lituo Street, Yuhua District Shazitang Vanke Charming City Primary School, and Yuhua District Lituo Street Xingfuli Community. The main venue of the event is located in the children's theater on the third floor of the Vankeli Children's Growth Center. It is divided into three main parts: the opening ceremony of the Child-Friendly Forum, the Child-Friendly Forum Seminar, and the Child-Friendly Forum Growth Camp. At the same time, a variety of child-friendly experience and participation activities were held at multiple branches of Vanke Charm City to celebrate the Children's Day with the children. Grand Opening *** Xiangxiang Ceremony

At 14:00 on May 30th, the children of Shazitang Vanke Charming City Primary School*** sang Changsha’s child-friendly song "The Smile of the Future" together. In the melodious and cheerful melody, the child-friendly forum activities officially kicked off. Peng Wenru, Director of the Child Protection Division of the United Nations Children's Fund, and Professor Isamu Kinoshita, leader of the expert group of the Japan Committee of the United Nations Children's Fund and a famous overseas teacher of Hunan University, sent holiday blessings to the vast number of children and children in Changsha through online videos, and expressed their gratitude to Changsha during the epidemic. It fully affirms the adoption of a series of measures to protect children, mobilize children's participation, and provide better support and services for children and families.

Liu Mingli, director of the Changsha Municipal Government’s Women and Children’s Working Committee and deputy mayor of the Municipal People’s Government, wished all the children in the city a “Happy Children’s Day.” He pointed out that since 2015, the Changsha Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have actively responded to the United Nations UNICEF's global initiative continues to promote the construction of "child-friendly cities", adheres to the child-first concepts of "seeing the city from a height of one meter" and "squatting down to talk to children", and incorporates the creation of child-friendly cities into the Changsha 2050 Vision Develop a strategic plan, release a three-year action plan, and implement 10 major actions and 42 tasks for a "child-friendly city". The creation of a child-friendly city in Changsha has developed from an initial "concept" to a comprehensive "real situation". Emphasizing that building a child-friendly city will benefit every community, every family, and every child, the creation of a child-friendly city will surely lead to the overall improvement of Changsha's urban taste, urban characteristics, urban environment, and city image, and make Changsha a better place. This city is warmer, warmer and warmer, allowing residents to feel more happy at home.

In order to promote the implementation of Changsha’s three-year action plan to create a “child-friendly city”, the Changsha Women’s Federation. We will join hands with the Changsha Municipal Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, Changsha Municipal Development and Reform Commission, and Changsha Municipal Education Bureau to focus on "child-friendly spaces, making the city warmer", "child-friendly homes, making the city more beautiful", and "child-friendly participation, making the city more beautiful". With four themes: "Inclusiveness" and "Child-friendly atmosphere, making the city more open", the city launched a collection activity for "Top Ten Innovative Brand Cases in Changsha's Child-Friendly City Construction". Wen Fang, Party Secretary and Chairman of the Municipal Women's Federation read out "Changsha City "Child-friendly city construction top ten innovative brand case collection activities" initiative, and invited leaders and guests attending the event *** to launch a child-friendly innovative brand case collection activity.

At the opening ceremony, Changsha Li Li, general manager of Vanke, shared typical cases of child-friendly community innovation.

As one of the first pilot projects for child-friendly communities in China, Vanke Charming City has taken "child-friendliness" as the starting point and goal of the project from the early stages of planning. From design concepts to space planning, to material selection and detail processing, it has been Actively explore and try iteration and construction of child-friendly communities, and extend the reach of creating child-friendly cities to the communities where children live.

Ms. Zhou Weiyan, Chairman of the Beijing Yongzhen Charity Foundation, delivered a keynote speech on "From Child-Friendly Community to Child-Friendly City" at the opening ceremony. She pointed out that whether it is a big city or a community, children should be given priority in public affairs, and children should be included in the decision-making system to formulate urban development action plans from point to point to make the urban environment adapt to the growth and development of children. Life. Everyone expresses their opinions ***Discuss together

This event focused on the theme of "Child-friendly communities make the city warmer", aiming to create an environment that attracts the active participation of many experts, scholars, government agencies and all walks of life. It serves as a communication platform to draw wisdom from all walks of life and gather strength from all walks of life to accelerate the construction of a child-friendly city in Changsha.

Liu Zhengshan, postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University, executive deputy director and researcher of the Urban Research Institute of the China Urban Development Research Association, discussed the topic of child-friendly urban construction and improvement of children's happiness index. He pointed out that a child-friendly city does not mean building a city into a child-led city, but a city that puts children's interests and growth at the core, so as to build an environment that is child-friendly and can improve children's physical and mental health. A city that develops healthily.

Ms. Tang Sulan, deputy secretary-general of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the Changsha Federation of Literary and Art Circles, discussed the importance of cultural construction in a child-friendly city with the theme of "Reading gives children a pair of wings". She is very much looking forward to cultivating children's reading habits and improving children's reading ability through rich and interesting family reading activities. She firmly believes that a child-friendly city that treats children equally, allows children to speak, and involves children will soon open in Changsha. accomplish. Shen Yao, associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Architecture, Hunan University, and head of the Child-Friendly City Research Office at the School of Architecture, Hunan University, gave a keynote speech focusing on the theme of "Toward a Child-Friendly Community". She talked from an international perspective to a Chinese perspective, focusing on three "keywords" such as games, community, and children's participation, and talked about how she is committed to combining the "child-friendly city concept" with community construction and exploring the practice of child-friendly communities. Vivid practice empowers Changsha to create a "university research + community practice" implementation model.

Long Xin, part-time vice chairman of the Women's Federation of Furong District, Changsha City, deputy director of the Dingwangtai Sub-district Office, and secretary of the Party Committee of Fengquan Gujing Community, shared some important aspects of the community's exploration and implementation of child-friendly communities based on time. event, she is very much looking forward to giving full play to the positive role of "child-friendly" in community governance and development, enhancing the cohesion of community building, enthusiasm for governance, and shared satisfaction, and extending and enriching community services. With its tentacles and functions, we can build an "all-age friendly" shared community to upgrade children's happiness at home.

This forum also specially invited children’s representative works to share and exchange. Peng Shiya, a student from Class 1709, Grade 3, Changjun Bilingual Experimental Middle School, Changsha, Hunan, shared her experience from October 14th to October 18th last year. What you saw and thought at the Child-Friendly Cities Summit hosted by UNICEF in Cologne, Germany. She believes that when a city shows its most sincere and friendly smile to children, the children who grow up in this city will inject warmth, tolerance, harmony, equality, openness and innovation into the future of the city. Children's innocence and children's dreams are colorful

In order to actively advocate the "child-oriented" urban development concept, listen to the voices of children, and respect the needs of children, as the "Children's Day" is approaching, The main venue of this event also organized a child-friendly city construction knowledge quiz, "Listen, what is nature saying?" painting exhibition and awards, "My Changsha My Dream" painting exhibition and awards, and small planners children's discussion The association produced displays and awards, and organized a community children's council flag-awarding ceremony to promote the sustainable development of the city with child-friendliness, let the city be built for children, and let children grow up happily in the city! In the child-friendly knowledge quiz competition, Changsha Vanke Team, Happy Yuhua Team, and Charming Furong Team formed a team to participate in this quiz competition. All members of the phalanx are children.

The questions to be answered were selected from the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors, and the "Changsha Three-Year Action Plan to Create a "Child-Friendly City" (2018-2020)", etc. Policies and regulations, after intense competition, 1 Group Excellence Award and 2 Group Memorial Awards were finally selected. Wang Huifang, deputy director of the Municipal Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, made wonderful comments on the quiz.

On the eve of Children's Day, the Changsha Women's Federation organized a collection of child-friendly paintings called "My Changsha? My Dream". This event is a theme activity for collecting paintings from children of school age in Changsha. In just six days, more than 700 works were received. After multiple rounds of screening and evaluation by a professional jury, 30 young artists finally stood out. , were invited to the Wankeli Children's Dream Creation Camp to jointly create a child-friendly painting scroll. On the 100-meter-long scroll, the young artists showed off their talents, full of childlike innocence and fun, freezing the beautiful scenery with their eyes, conveying the beauty with their brushes, and depicting Create a vision of a beautiful Changsha as a "child-friendly city" in the minds of children.

It is reported that the "Listen, what is nature saying?" painting exhibition activities and the "My Changsha? My Dream" child-friendly painting scroll drawing activity were held simultaneously at each branch venue of this event. , Little Planner Children's Council activities, "Tian Tian Shang Shang" children's rock climbing experience activities, "Colorful Children's Fun Time" fun sports meeting, and "Garbage classification, I take the lead, beautiful families and beautiful women in action" parent-child game experience, etc. , sending a different "June 1" holiday gift package to the children.