Special campaign launched to strengthen school bus safety

Special campaign launched to strengthen school bus safety

 BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Traffic management departments around China have launched a special campaign to strengthen school bus safety, the Ministry¹ of Public Security (MPS) said Friday.

An unidentified official from the Traffic Management Bureau under the MPS said the campaign will focus on cracking down on illegally-assembled school buses, speeding, overloading², unqualified school bus operations and other violations⁴ of related regulations.

During the campaign, illegally-assembled school buses and those that have reached discard standards will be confiscated⁵ and discarded by traffic management bureaus, and the drivers and owners of those school buses will be strictly⁶ punished, the official said.

Individuals who provide school bus services without relevant qualifications and drivers operating school buses without being qualified³ to do so will also face strict punishments.

Traffic management departments will strip drivers' qualifications for operating school buses if the drivers do not meet the standards set by the Regulation on School Bus Safety Management due to traffic regulation violations and accidents, the official said.

Motor vehicles that do not avoid school buses when students are getting on and off will also be punished according to law, the official added.

Implemented⁷ on April 5, the regulation came after a string of school bus accidents occurred in China last year, prompting the government to introduce new safety regulations and standards for school buses to better ensure students' safety and allay⁸ public concern.

Students' safety on their ways to and from schools have attracted great public attention.

The Traffic Management Bureau on Friday issued proposals on students' safety on their ways to and from schools. Those proposals include conducting road-crossing safety exercises, choosing safe school buses and making students more visible on the road, among others.

1 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。

2 overloading   

过载，超载，过负载

参考例句：

• Enables multiple users to search the site without overloading the server. 使多个用户搜索网站，而无需超载的服务器上。
• The driver got stripped down again for overloading his trunk. 那位卡车司机因为超载又受到责备。

3 qualified   

adj.合格的，有资格的，胜任的，有限制的

参考例句：

• He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
• We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。

4 violations   

违反( violation的名词复数 )； 冒犯； 违反（行为、事例）； 强奸

参考例句：

• This is one of the commonest traffic violations. 这是常见的违反交通规则之例。
• These violations of the code must cease forthwith. 这些违犯法规的行为必须立即停止。

5 confiscated   

没收，充公( confiscate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Their land was confiscated after the war. 他们的土地在战后被没收。
• The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。

6 strictly   

adv.严厉地，严格地；严密地

参考例句：

• His doctor is dieting him strictly.他的医生严格规定他的饮食。
• The guests were seated strictly in order of precedence.客人严格按照地位高低就座。

7 implemented   

v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效

参考例句：

• This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革，经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句

8 allay   

v.消除，减轻(恐惧、怀疑等)

参考例句：

• The police tried to allay her fears but failed.警察力图减轻她的恐惧，但是没有收到什么效果。
• They are trying to allay public fears about the spread of the disease.他们正竭力减轻公众对这种疾病传播的恐惧。