2016年CRI Do You Know How to Go back Home when Got Lost

 

"If I was lost, I would wait where I was lost. If I couldn't find my parents at the school gate, I would ask our school faculty¹ for help. If I got lost in the park, I would turn to the park security staff for help; if it was at shopping center, I would go to the receptionist for help."

Eight-year-old Guo Rui says she's been taught both at home and at school not to wander around on her own or go off with strangers.

Ms. Li is the mother of a 3-year-old girl. She says she has taught her daughter how to protect herself by telling her stories.

"She has started to read books. These books include stories telling children to beware of strangers especially when they try to attract them with sweets and toys. I gradually raised her safety awareness² through telling stories and reading books to her. Just now when I was playing hide and seek with her, a grandpa played trick with her and asked her to go with him. I told her that she should not go, but instead shout 'mama, mama' loudly."

Criminologist Zhou Junshan, from the People's Public Security University, says children's safety education is taught in many schools, and children and parents living in cities generally have a strong awareness of child safety issues, and clearly know what to do when kids get lost.

But he says the situation in rural areas, and for the children of migrant works is a matter for concern.

Zhou cited the example of three children who went missing in the mountains in Zhejiang province last February as an example. Although the oldest child was already 12-year-old, she had no idea how to help them find safety. They were eventually found three days after going missing, then the outcome could have been very different.

Zhou Junshan says there are several ways to ensure the safety of children.

"Firstly, we must ensure migrant children get proper schooling³, as we have found that most missing children come from migrant families, so they are not allowed to go to school in their host cities, or maybe stay in the rural areas without parents to guide them. Secondly⁴, many people have suggested putting together specialized⁵ textbooks or extracurricular stories. Thirdly, we need to raise the parents' awareness of guardianship⁶, especially young parents. Fourthly, we need to make full use of advanced equipment such as GPS technology and camera monitoring systems."

Many private platforms and funds have been established in recent years to help in the search for missing children and have attracted a large public involvement.

However, Zhou Junshan believes although public engagement is welcomed, the public security authority remains⁷ the dominant⁸ power in seeking lost children.

A few days ago, the Ministry⁹ launched an alert system for children who go missing. As soon as they get reports of a missing child, a network of more than 5,000 anti-trafficking police share updates via an app, including photos and physical descriptions.

If a child has been missing for less than an hour, the information will be sent to people within a 100 kilometer radius¹⁰; if the child has been lost for over three hours, the coverage¹¹ will reach up to 500 kilometers.

Zhou said it was necessary to expand the range of information spreading as human traffickers are able to travel quickly using modern transport means.

"Human traffickers now commit trans-provincial crimes. Once they carry out an adbuction, they'll seek to transfer kids quickly to other provinces. So it is necessary to spread information about missing children by about 100 kilometers per hour."

The information will also be available on Gaode Mobile Map Service, and the system's official Sina Weibo account.

Already the authorities have published information about 19 missing children. One two-year-old girl has already been rescued as a result of the new system.

For CRI, this is Huang Shan. 

1 faculty   

n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员

参考例句：

• He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
• He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。

2 awareness   

n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智

参考例句：

• There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
• Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。

3 schooling   

n.教育；正规学校教育

参考例句：

• A child's access to schooling varies greatly from area to area.孩子获得学校教育的机会因地区不同而大相径庭。
• Backward children need a special kind of schooling.天赋差的孩子需要特殊的教育。

4 secondly   

adv.第二，其次

参考例句：

• Secondly,use your own head and present your point of view.第二，动脑筋提出自己的见解。
• Secondly it is necessary to define the applied load.其次，需要确定所作用的载荷。

5 specialized   

adj.专门的，专业化的

参考例句：

• There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations.联合国有许多专门机构。
• These tools are very specialized.这些是专用工具。

6 guardianship   

n. 监护, 保护, 守护

参考例句：

• They had to employ the English language in face of the jealous guardianship of Britain. 他们不得不在英国疑忌重重的监护下使用英文。
• You want Marion to set aside her legal guardianship and give you Honoria. 你要马丽恩放弃她的法定监护人资格，把霍诺丽娅交给你。

7 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

8 dominant   

adj.支配的，统治的；占优势的；显性的；n.主因，要素，主要的人(或物)；显性基因

参考例句：

• The British were formerly dominant in India.英国人从前统治印度。
• She was a dominant figure in the French film industry.她在法国电影界是个举足轻重的人物。

9 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

10 radius   

n.半径，半径范围；有效航程，范围，界限

参考例句：

• He has visited every shop within a radius of two miles.周围两英里以内的店铺他都去过。
• We are measuring the radius of the circle.我们正在测量圆的半径。

11 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。