英闻天下——580 Children Welfare System Needs to be Established

 　　A month-long nationwide inspection¹ of orphanages³ run by individuals and private operators is carried out throughout China after a private orphanage² fire in Henan Province claimed seven lives. China is struggling to upgrade children's welfare by establishing children welfare system.

 

　　Wang Xiao has the story.

 

　　Shi Tou is a seven month old boy. He was laid at the door of welfare center for children three months ago in Suzhou. He has beautiful eyes and smile, but the doctor diagnoses that he suffers from cerebral⁴ palsy. The caregiver Ding Jing says it's hard for him to make any body movement, so she has to give him rehabilitation⁵ trainings everyday.

 

　　"Without body practice, he'll have problems in speaking and walking, and lost the ability of living independence."

 

　　According to the Civil Affairs ministry⁶, most of the children living in welfare centers suffer from serious illnesses accompanied by mental or physical disability. The government takes care of the expenses covering the medical treatment and nursing care.

 

　　Chen Yongzhen, the head of Suzhou Social Welfare Center, says they try their best to make these children live in a normal family.

 

　　"Each year, more than ten children from our center can be adopted. Most of them go to foreign families. Most Chinese couples don't want them."

 

　　Professor Wang Zhenyao, the head of China Philanthropy Research Institute of Beijing Normal University, says that it's the lack of children welfare regulation that causes the misery⁷.

 

　　"China is among the few countries in the world that does not have a law to protect child welfare. An administrative⁸ branch in this regard is also lacking, as is professional staff. New York City alone has more than 10,000 staff and volunteers working in child welfare, more than the whole of China."

 

　　After a fatal orphanage blaze in Lankao, Henan province, that claimed seven lives including six children, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will establish prevention and intervention⁹ mechanism¹⁰ for children's various types of risks during growth, such as serious illness, disability or being abandoned.

 

　　It also vows¹¹ to strengthen supervision¹² and support for individuals and private institutions that look after orphans¹³ and abandoned children.

 

　　Wang Zhenyao, he's also a former senior civil affairs official, says NGOs have played a significant part where government fails.

 

　　"Children should be raised in families. They need individuality. The welfare center with hundreds of beds is just like a plant, which is so damaging to children. So the key now is for the government to reach out to these organizations and individuals like Yuan Lihai, solve their difficulties, provide subsidies¹⁴ and training, and set up the management criteria¹⁵. Don't take back the children from them, because children have feelings. It's just wrong to handle the problem without thinking."

 

　　The Ministry of Civil Affairs has urged its departments across the country to mobilize communities and villages to collect information on the conditions of non-government orphanages as part of the inspection campaign.

 

　　For CRI, I'm Wang Xiao.

1 inspection   

n.检查，审查，检阅

参考例句：

• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。
• The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。

2 orphanage   

n.孤儿院

参考例句：

• They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage.他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。
• They gave the proceeds of the sale to the orphanage.他们把销售的收入给了这家孤儿院。

3 orphanages   

孤儿院( orphanage的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• It is Rotarians running orphanages for children who have no homes. 扶轮社员们为没有家的孩子办孤儿院。
• Through the years, she built churches, hospitals and orphanages. 许多年来，她盖了一间间的教堂、医院、育幼院。

4 cerebral   

adj.脑的，大脑的；有智力的，理智型的

参考例句：

• Your left cerebral hemisphere controls the right-hand side of your body.你的左半脑控制身体的右半身。
• He is a precise,methodical,cerebral man who carefully chooses his words.他是一个一丝不苟、有条理和理智的人，措辞谨慎。

5 rehabilitation   

n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位

参考例句：

• He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
• No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。

6 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。

7 misery   

n.痛苦，苦恼，苦难；悲惨的境遇，贫苦

参考例句：

• Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
• He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。

8 administrative   

adj.行政的，管理的

参考例句：

• The administrative burden must be lifted from local government.必须解除地方政府的行政负担。
• He regarded all these administrative details as beneath his notice.他认为行政管理上的这些琐事都不值一顾。

9 intervention   

n.介入，干涉，干预

参考例句：

• The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
• Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

10 mechanism   

n.机械装置；机构，结构

参考例句：

• The bones and muscles are parts of the mechanism of the body.骨骼和肌肉是人体的组成部件。
• The mechanism of the machine is very complicated.这台机器的结构是非常复杂的。

11 vows   

誓言( vow的名词复数 )； 郑重宣布，许愿

参考例句：

• Matrimonial vows are to show the faithfulness of the new couple. 婚誓体现了新婚夫妇对婚姻的忠诚。
• The nun took strait vows. 那位修女立下严格的誓愿。

12 supervision   

n.监督，管理

参考例句：

• The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
• The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。

13 orphans   

孤儿( orphan的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The poor orphans were kept on short commons. 贫苦的孤儿们吃不饱饭。
• Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。

14 subsidies   

n.补贴，津贴，补助金( subsidy的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• European agriculture ministers failed to break the deadlock over farm subsidies. 欧洲各国农业部长在农业补贴问题上未能打破僵局。
• Agricultural subsidies absorb about half the EU's income. 农业补贴占去了欧盟收入的大约一半。 来自《简明英汉词典》

15 criteria   

n.标准

参考例句：

• The main criterion is value for money.主要的标准是钱要用得划算。
• There are strict criteria for inclusion in the competition.参赛的标准很严格。