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Shenzhen's new residential areas have barrier-free facilities, neighborhoods have ramps to facilitate the passage of strollers or wheelchairs. \r\n\\\r\nShenzhen Metro Phase I has dedicated an additional 100 million yuan to equip complete barrier-free facilities to facilitate the travel of the elderly, the sick and the disabled. The picture shows engineers checking the construction of blind alleys. \r\n\\r\nCore Tips\r\n\r\nBuilding barrier-free facilities is an important measure to provide convenience for the disabled, the elderly, the sick, women and children, as well as other members of the community, and it is an indispensable element in the construction of a modernized city, and an important symbol of social progress. \r\n\\r\nShenzhen is one of the earliest cities in the country to carry out barrier-free construction. As early as 1985, the municipal government issued a document requiring the setting up of barrier-free facilities in public ****places, starting the construction of a barrier-free environment in Shenzhen. in October 2006, Shenzhen was awarded the title of National "Tenth Five-Year" Advanced City for Barrier-Free Construction by the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the China Disabled Persons' Federation and the Office of the National Committee on Working for the Elderly*** together, and the title of "Advanced City for Barrier-Free Construction" was also awarded to Shenzhen. It is one of the first cities in China to be awarded the title of Advanced City in Barrier-Free Construction. \r\n\\r\nIn recent years, the city's barrier-free construction has expanded into a variety of areas such as public **** construction, urban roads, transportation, community, family and information consulting. The city's new roads are all paved with blind alleys and wheelchair ramps, the opening of barrier-free public **** transportation routes, there are already 25 barrier-free public **** buses into operation, the city and district libraries to establish reading rooms for the blind, the introduction of GPS navigation services and computer software for the blind, for the city's 818 hearing and speech disabled people with the distribution of the love of cell phone information card for the severely disabled families to carry out accessibility modifications, etc., to provide people with disabilities This has provided a good barrier-free environment for the disabled and other disadvantaged groups to participate in social life. \r\n\r\nThis year, the Shenzhen Barrier-Free Construction Management Regulations have been included in the legislative program of the National People's Congress and are expected to be introduced within the year. Shenzhen has also put forward the goal of creating a barrier-free city in the 11th Five-Year Plan, and the city's barrier-free construction will become more and more perfect. \r\n\\\r\nThe government is actively promoting the construction of a barrier-free environment \r\n\r\nThe construction of barrier-free facilities is a sign of the progress of civilization in the city, and it is a public welfare facility that facilitates the participation of all citizens in social activities, and it is the obligation and responsibility of the government to do its part. \r\n\r\nShenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government has been actively promoting the construction of barrier-free environment, the construction of barrier-free construction as a "project of the people's heart", "love project" to grasp the accessibility of the construction of the city's overall planning, included in the urban construction of important content, to take effective measures to carry out a solid. Effective measures have been taken to carry out the project in a solid manner. \As early as July 1985, the city government issued a Circular on the Installation of Facilities for the Disabled in Public **** Places, which required that the design of the city's major roads, hotels, theaters, hospitals, post offices, banks, schools, train stations, passenger terminals, libraries, museums, gymnasiums, parks, sightseeing areas, markets, and public **** toilets be designed taking into account the special circumstances of the disabled. When designing projects, the special situation of persons with disabilities should be taken into account and special facilities should be set up for them. Projects under construction that do not take into account the accessibility of facilities for persons with disabilities should be constructed or remodeled immediately. Some special facilities for the disabled, such as low counters in stores, low public **** phones and special parking spaces for the disabled, should be taken into account. \During the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, the city has put forward higher requirements for barrier-free construction: the "Tenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Cause of Disabled Persons in Shenzhen" clearly states: "In accordance with the standards of building an international garden city and taking the lead in the basic realization of the socialist modernization of the city, we will continue to build and renovate facilities for people with disabilities, and will continue to build or renovate these facilities immediately. In the "Tenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Cause of Disabled Persons in Shenzhen", it is clearly stated that "in accordance with the standard of building an international garden city and the requirement of taking the lead in basically realizing socialist modernization, the city will actively promote the construction of a barrier-free environment", and at the same time, it has formulated the "Tenth Five-Year Plan for Barrier-Free Construction of Shenzhen City", which puts forward specific requirements for the construction of barrier-free. \r\\n\\\\r\n2000, the Municipal Planning and Land Bureau issued the Notice on Further Strengthening Barrier-Free Design in Urban Design and Architectural Design, stipulating that barrier-free facilities should be installed not only in public *** places, but also that barrier-free design work should be further strengthened in all constructions in the city. \r\n\\\r\n2001, the State Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the China Disabled Persons' Federation jointly promulgated the "Code for Barrier-Free Design of Urban Roads and Buildings", and the city, in conjunction with the actual situation, conscientiously carried out the spirit of the Code and intensified its efforts to implement the standard. The Code will be issued to various design, construction, supervision and management departments, so that staff engaged in barrier-free construction and management are familiar with and master the Code, at the same time, require all departments in the planning, design, construction, supervision and acceptance of all aspects of mandatory implementation of the provisions of the Code, all projects and works not in line with the requirements of the design specifications, will not be approved, will not be constructed and will not be inspected and accepted. \r\\n\\\r\n Municipal government in 2005 issued the "Shenzhen municipal government to help people with disabilities", also expressly stipulates that; new construction, expansion, alteration of urban roads, transportation facilities and public **** buildings, should be strictly in accordance with the requirements of the national urban road and building design specifications to facilitate the use of people with disabilities, accessibility design, construction, and to strengthen the management and maintenance of barrier-free facilities. \r\n\\\r\nFor further institutional clarification of the administrative system and social supervision mechanism for barrier-free construction and management, and to provide a legal basis for the barrier-free construction of urban roads and buildings, barrier-free public ****transportation construction, and accessibility of information exchange, etc., the city has started to formulate the "Regulations on Barrier-Free Environment Construction in Shenzhen City" since 2005, which has been included in the Municipal People's Congress' legislative program this year. It will be introduced within the year. \r\n\\r\nThe Municipal Planning Bureau has also been working on the Shenzhen Urban and Architectural Design Standards and Guidelines, the Shenzhen Urban Public ****space System Planning and the Shenzhen SAR Pedestrian System Planning, and other regulatory provisions to provide clear design guidelines for the mobility of people with disabilities, and to ensure the implementation of barrier-free construction. \r\n\\\r\nOctober 2006, Shenzhen was awarded the title of "Tenth Five-Year" Advanced Barrier-Free City by the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the China Disabled Persons' Federation, and the Office of the National Committee on Ageing, and is the only city in Guangdong Province to have received this honor. On this basis, the city has put forward the creation of the "Eleventh Five-Year" barrier-free construction of advanced cities, set up by the municipal government in charge of the vice mayor as the leader of the Shenzhen Municipal Barrier-Free Construction Leading Group, issued the "Shenzhen Municipality to create" Eleventh Five-Year "Barrier-Free Construction of Cities Implementation Program", clear requirements: \r\n\\r\n - new and expanded city roads sidewalks at intersections, street intersections, such as the installation of curbstone ramps; city's main roads, secondary roads, side roads, street sidewalks at the intersection of the curbstone ramp reconstruction; the city's new trunk roads, the city's main roads, commercial streets and other sidewalks All set up blind alleys, and speed up the construction of blind alleys set up on the main roads in the outskirts of the city, to improve the coverage of the city's blind alleys set up; the city's large parks, squares, commercial districts, the sidewalks of the main public **** building, train stations, subway platforms and other set up to prompt blind alleys. \r\n\\\r\n - new commercial and office buildings, cultural venues, sports buildings, medical buildings, schools, welfare homes, garden buildings, outdoor public **** toilets, and other types of public **** buildings should be in accordance with the provisions of the construction of barrier-free facilities, the installation of barrier-free signs; the corresponding facilities of the various types of public **** buildings that have been built As far as possible, barrier-free modifications shall be made; sidewalks, community parks, green squares and public **** activity places in newly built residential areas shall be constructed with barrier-free facilities in accordance with regulations; and barrier-free modifications shall be made as far as possible to already built residential areas. \r\n\\\r\n - City subways, airports and railway stations are basically barrier-free, with barrier-free facilities such as barrier-free elevators, barrier-free toilets and barrier-free signs. Wheelchair spaces and low-floor bus barrier-free facility services are actively implemented in public ****vehicles. \r\n\\\r\n Mobility-impaired people are getting more and more convenient to travel \r\n\r\n\r\n Lee is a wheelchair-bound mobility-impaired elderly man, his son took him to Shenzhen to take care of him. moncler outlet online He especially likes life in Shenzhen because it's easy to go out and he doesn't have to be cooped up at home all day. The moncler outlet online store is located in the central district of Huangpu Yayuan, there is an elevator, the community has a wheelchair access and the edge of the stone ramp, even if there is no one to take care of the moncler outlet online, the moncler outlet online store can push the wheelchair to get to any corner of the community. It's also easy to get out of the neighborhood. There are kerbstone ramps at all the intersections, and when you go to the nearby Lotus Hill Park, there are ramps all the way to the top of the hill, and to the Central Bookstore and the concert hall, all the way to the center is also barrier-free. Often out and about, moncler outlet store the mood is getting more cheerful. \r/n\r/n Mr. Liu, a disabled person who lives in Jingtian, participated in a movie watching activity organized by the Futian District Volunteer Association not long ago, and went to see a movie at the Pacific Cinema on the fourth floor of the East Ocean Shopping Plaza. After watching the movie out, Mr. Liu Feng often emotional. He said, "From the first floor to the fourth floor, we don't need to take a step, with the help of ramps or elevators, we can watch a movie like normal people. The cinema has a restroom specially set up for the disabled, and there are seats in the screening room reserved for wheelchairs for the disabled. Care for the disabled should actually be reflected in these details." \Ms. Zhang, a disabled person who lives in Chegongmiao, told reporters, "Over the years, the government has done a lot of practical things for people with disabilities, creating a barrier-free environment for those of us with mobility disabilities, making it smoother and smoother for us to go out and creating the conditions for us to integrate into the society and become self-reliant. Like where I live, there is a subway entrance nearby, and this subway entrance has a barrier-free access and barrier-free elevator for people with disabilities to enter the station, and by taking the subway, I can reach the main roads in Futian and Luohu, as well as the main commercial centers. There is also the No. 59 bus near my home, and there is a wheelchair accessible bus on this route, which is very convenient. The government also gives us disabled people a lot of concessions, riding the bus and subway is free, and going to the park is also free." \r\n\\r\nWalking on Shenzhen's main arterial roads, attentive pedestrians will find that there is a particularly striking row of yellow granite floor tiles on the sidewalks, which are elaborately carved with polka dots and long strips, which are specially paved for the convenience of blind people to travel on the blind side of the road, and blind people will have a very obvious sense of direction as long as they tap on the ground with their blind cane. In recent years, more than 130 kilometers of new and reconstructed urban roads in the city have all been paved with blind alleys, curb ramps and wheelchair ramps; new public **** buildings have basically been constructed with barrier-free facilities. Public **** buildings such as airports, wharves, subways, railway stations, bus stations, customs joint inspection buildings, large shopping malls, libraries, theaters, concert halls, youth palaces, convention and exhibition centers, civic centers, and other public **** buildings are all equipped with better barrier-free facilities and barrier-free signs. More than 20 of the city's major municipal parks, such as Lotus Hill and Penjing Hill, have been built as barrier-free municipal parks, and there are more than 600 barrier-free public toilets in the city. Major hotels have built rooms and restrooms that are accessible to persons with disabilities. Tourist areas are designed to ensure that people with disabilities can see the main attractions and are equipped with wheelchairs and other facilities. All newly built residential areas in the city have barrier-free facilities, and some old residential areas have been remodeled for accessibility. \r\n\\\r\nTo make it easier for people with mobility problems to get around, the city has also opened accessible public **** transportation routes, with 25 accessible public **** buses already in operation. The rear door of this low-floor accessible bus is a stepless design, the driver can stop according to the height of the platform, so that the bottom of the vehicle air cushion to flexibly reduce the height of the body and the ground to form a smooth and unobstructed access to wheelchairs for the disabled and mobility-impaired elderly unassisted from the road smoothly into the bus. The bus also has a special space for wheelchairs, which can be secured by seat belts, and is equipped with anti-collision rubber mats, emergency stop buttons and other related devices. \r\n\\r\nShenzhen Metro in the first phase of planning and design, adopted the views of the Municipal Disabled Persons Federation, an additional 100 million yuan to add blind alleys, wheelchair ramps, accessible toilets, accessible vertical elevators, barrier-free access, electronic display screens, disabled guide signs and other barrier-free facilities, carriages are equipped with a language reporting system and graphic display system, each car, but also set up a wheelchair space to facilitate the disabled and other disadvantaged people to ride the subway. Disabled people and other disadvantaged people to take the subway. \r\n\\\r\n Reporters were also informed that in the near future, the city's transportation department will also launch a barrier-free cab service to meet the needs of wheelchair-bound disadvantaged groups traveling. \r\n\\r\nMultiple initiatives to create conditions for information accessibility \r\n\r\nShenzhen's Mr. Lin, who is blind, likes to go to the downtown library on weekends to read books. From its opening, the Shenzhen Library has taken into account the needs of the disabled in Shenzhen, and has not only established ramps for the mobility-impaired disabled to freely access wheelchairs and set up blind alleys for the blind, but also specialized in establishing the first visually impaired reading room in a domestic library. There are more than 300 Braille books in the reading room, as well as a variety of video products, and most of the books in the collection are health care books on massage techniques and traditional Chinese medicine, which are favored by blind friends. At present, both Shenzhen City and district libraries have established reading rooms for the blind. In addition, the city libraries have purchased multifunctional video aids, learning machines, Braille printers, Braille dot displays and other equipment to meet the needs of the low-vision disabled and the blind for reading. In order to better assist the disabled in their studies, the Shenzhen Library has also organized free computer training courses in conjunction with the Shenzhen Information Accessibility Research Association***. \r\n\\r\nIn recent years, in order to enable more visually impaired people to enjoy information accessibility, the Municipal Disabled Persons' Federation has introduced a variety of high-tech aids. Low vision people with disabilities through the visual aids can be books on the font on the computer screen to enlarge several times to read; and blind people can through the multi-functional learning machine scanning function with the ear "listening to books", through the Braille printer and Braille point of view device in the Internet free "swim! "Through computer screen reading software, the blind can also surf the Internet and use cell phones as freely as the able-bodied. \r\n\\r\nIn this year's Shenzhen Care Campaign, 200 blind people in Shenzhen happily received free distribution of blind GPS positioning and navigation cell phones from the Municipal Disabled Persons' Federation. With this set of positioning, navigation and communication as one of the cell phone, as long as the input to the destination, the phone can be in the form of voice guidance to the blind walking route, while walking in the process of real-time prompts on both sides of the road buildings, shopping malls, hotels and utilities, etc., so that the blind people can always understand the location of the position, as if for the blind people put on the electronic "eyes! It is like putting electronic "eyes" on the blind, which can help the blind to go out of their homes better. The future of this care program will also cover all the city's more than 18 years of age of the deep household registration of the blind. It is understood that Shenzhen is the first city in the country to give the blind free distribution of GPS positioning navigation, China is also the second country after the United States to give the blind distribution of blind GPS positioning navigation system, reflecting the government's care for people with disabilities. \r\n\\r\nIn addition, the city has also distributed love cell phone information cards to 818 hearing and speech disabled people in the city, promoted the establishment of the "Information Accessibility Research Society" for the disabled, and utilized electronic media and other means of communication for information exchange, such as online sign language teaching and printing Braille versions of regulations; the city's Disabled Persons' Supplies and Utilities Service Station printed the "Shenzhen Municipality of Disabled Persons' Supplies and Utilities" and published the "Shenzhen Municipality of Disabled Persons' Supplies and Utilities Service Station". The Municipal Disabled Persons' Supplies Service Station prints Braille pamphlets on "Shenzhen Measures for Assisting Persons with Disabilities", providing reading convenience for visually impaired persons. \r\n\\r\nIn Shenzhen, when you turn on the TV, subtitles are added to TV news, movies and TV dramas to make it easier for the hearing-impaired to watch TV. The city is now preparing to start sign language programs on TV stations and promote sign language among people working in the service industries such as commerce and tourism. In addition, electronic information screens will be established and improved in key public **** places such as subways, train stations, hospitals and government office buildings. \r\n\\\r\nThe Other Mountain's Stone\r\n\r\nCanada: Government Subsidies for Barrier-free Transportation\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Canadian government's transportation department has adopted preferential policies in support of the development of barrier-free transportation, for example, adopting a contractual management approach for barrier-free cabs and rehabilitation minibuses, and outsourcing them to private transportation companies that meet the prescribed requirements to provide specific services for persons with disabilities and seniors, and the loss incurred from the operation of the service is covered by the government's share. The government provides subsidies or other policy support for the loss incurred in the operation of this service. With the support of the government's preferential policies, Quebec's accessible rental cabs have grown from 50 five years ago to more than 300 at present, greatly facilitating the travel of persons with disabilities and seniors. \r\n\\r\nBeijing: Barrier-free cabs on the road \r\n\r\n As one of the measures to improve the Beijing Paralympics as well as the improvement of barrier-free travel, Beijing has introduced the first batch of 70 three models of barrier-free cabs. These cabs are fitted with a switch in the passenger seat, and by lightly pressing the switch, the passenger seat can be slowly rotated to the right to move out, making it easy for people with disabilities or mobility problems to get in and out of the taxi. \r\n\r\nLianyungang transformed barrier-free bus stops \r\n\r\n Combined with the actual situation of the urban roads, Lianyungang City Transportation Department identified the first batch of 80 bus stops on the main city arteries, such as Chaoyang Road, Yingzhou Road, Zhongshan Road, etc., to carry out barrier-free transformation. The new barrier-free platforms are designed with wheelchair access, and wheelchairs for the disabled can be easily driven into the bus stops. In addition to this, the bus stops are equipped with blind alleys and Braille stop signs for the blind, so that they can ride the bus without any guidance. \r\n\\\r\nBeijing-Tianjin Intercity Express: with automatic electronic door toilets \r\n\r\nBeijing-Tianjin Intercity Express has specially designed a humanized area for the disabled. In this area, people with disabilities can take care of themselves in their daily lives, such as going to the toilet, without any barriers. One of the striking things is that there is an electronic device next to the door of the toilet, as long as the hand gently touch, the door can be automatically pulled open, greatly facilitating the disabled as well as other mobility inconvenience people into the toilet.