Kids at a kindergarten in Jiangsu province play a game of standing spring eggs with their teacher on Spring Equinox, March 20, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua] Ministry calls for stricter supervision following RYB Education scandal China will extend its supervisory system for primary and secondary schools to also cover preschools and kindergartens, a move designed to further monitor and ensure young students' safety, security and educational quality, the Ministry of Education said on Tuesday. The ministry will strengthen its supervision over preschools and kindergartens to deal with high tuitions fees, insufficient access to good public kindergartens and safety issues, He Xiuchao, director of the ministry's Education Supervision Bureau, said at a news conference. Tang Lijun, director of Beijing's educational supervision office, said at the conference that the city will intensify training of kindergarten supervisors sent to kindergartens to ensure preschool pupils' safety. Beijing is working on a comprehensive evaluation system over the city's kindergartens, which is expected to be released and implemented in the first half of 2018, Tang said. The system will take charge of student admissions as well as the grading and overall quality improvement of the city's kindergartens, he added. In November, reports of children at an RYB Education preschool being poked with needles and maltreated by a 22-year-old female teacher caused a public outcry. If such instances of child abuse could happen at high-end education facilities in the most international and developed city in China, what could have happened to the children living in second-tier cities and even in remote areas, one netizen wrote on microblog platform Sina Weibo. On Nov 25, the teacher, surnamed Liu, was sent to criminal detention, according to police. The Beijing Municipal Education Commission later sent hundreds of permanent supervisors to the city's kindergartens to inspect their education quality. The supervisors being assigned to each kindergarten had their personal information including names and phone numbers made available to the public. Li Guoqiang, a professor at Xiamen University in Fujian province, said China has seen a surge in the number of its kindergartens and preschools in recent years as the country intensifies efforts to popularize early education. Problems are inevitable as lots of these schools are privately owned and lack supervision, Li said. Local educational authorities should make the conditions of each kindergarten within their jurisdiction public so that parents have access to more information before sending their children off to school, he added. Efforts have also been made to strengthen supervision of the country's primary and secondary schools. China has more than 120,000 supervisors monitoring every aspect of the country's 260,000 primary and middle schools and 98 percent of these schools are equipped with supervisors, said He. There are 19,500 full-time and 103,800 part-time supervisors, who are mainly school principals, exemplary or retired teachers and parents, he added. pretty little liars bracelet customsilicone wristbandscustom bff braceletscustom sports braceletsbracelet montre silicone 14mm
ZDK-03 model [Photo/VCG] Designer says few nations are capable of designing, building such aircraft China is a major arms exporter, but its image in the international weapons market has long been linked to old, second-tier products sold at relatively low prices. Domestic defense technology companies have been sparing no effort over the past several years to improve their reputation by promoting modern, advanced products featuring the latest technology. One recent effort is an airborne early-warning and control aircraft described by its designer as world-class and best of its kind. Hu Mingchun, head of the Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology in Jiangsu province, said there are only a handful of nations including China, the United States and Israel that can design, build and export such cutting-edge hardware as early-warning planes. And he said the KLC-7 Silk Road Eye developed by his institute is a generation ahead of its rivals in the global market. According to Hu, the KLC-7 integrates a mechanical scanning system with active electronically scanned arrays - two popular radar detection methods - and features the latest digital technology and processing capacity, which is much more robust than previous models. With state-of-the-art electronics, the system boasts better anti-jamming functions, a longer detection range and stronger target-tracking ability and optimized algorithms, he said. It was designed based on our rich experience and expertise, Hu said. All of its core technologies and components were developed on our own. The product represents the latest technologies and is very competitive in the international market. Several nations have expressed strong interest in the KLC-7 and want to open talks with the institute, he said. For our users, the KLC-7 Silk Road Eye is the best solution to their needs because it fits perfectly in sophisticated and rapidly changing combat situations and can detect and track targets from afar, Hu said. The farther you can see in combat, the higher the chance that you will win. Therefore, anyone who uses the Silk Road Eye will be able to extensively magnify the situational awareness and operational capabilities of military forces. The electronics institute in Nanjing, which is part of State-owned defense giant China Electronics Technology Group Corp, is the country's top developer of military surveillance radar. Its products have been sold to more than 20 nations in Africa and Asia, it said. Reports have said it designed and manufactured the radars mounted on ZDK-03 early-warning aircraft that China exported to Pakistan. In a picture released by China Electronics Technology Group Corp, the Silk Road Eye appears similar to the ZDK-03, which means it is also mounted on the Y-9 turboprop transport plane built by Aviation Industry Corp of China.
