日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Opinion
Home / Opinion / Chen Weihua

People with disabilities deserve dignity

By Chen Weihua | China Daily | Updated: 2014-10-24 07:25
Share
Share - WeChat

There is no doubt that China has beaten the United States in the development of high-speed railways. Americans return home from visits to China relishing their experience and mocking their own trains, such as those running between Washington and New York, as "steam engines".

However, public transport systems in the US, especially the buses, are much cooler than those in China when it comes to serving people with disabilities.

I discovered this on my first trip to the US in the early 1990s, when I spent a year in Honolulu, Hawaii. Riding often on Bus 4 between the University Avenue stop and Waikiki, I saw for the first time buses equipped with wheelchair lifts and ramps. There was nothing like that in China at the time.

While the bus conductor helped secure wheelchairs, other passengers waited patiently, and no one ever complained.

This is an everyday scene in the US but one rarely seen in Chinese cities.

It's not rocket science. So why can't China do it after decades of great urban transformation?

I believe it's all about awareness - of governments, lawmakers and society - and sensitivity to the needs of people with disabilities. There are about 36 million of them in the US and 85 million in China, many of them in wheelchairs.

Even in big Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai, only a tiny fraction of the public buses are friendly to wheelchair users. The number is, in fact, so small - only 0.2 percent of buses in Shanghai, according to figures from two years ago - that the service is virtually useless to most people in need.

Nor am I sure that most Chinese passengers, some of whom still like to push and shove when getting on a bus, would have the patience most Americans show in waiting for wheelchair users to board and disembark.

1 2 Next   >>|
Most Viewed in 24 Hours
Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1994 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 欧美日韩国产精品一区 | 麻豆黄色片 | 91专区| 一区亚洲 | 成人在线观看一区 | 久久久久久久久影院 | 久久久精品中文字幕 | 色婷婷狠狠干 | 久久精品视频在线观看 | 人人澡人人射 | 精品在线播放视频 | 亚洲黄色在线免费观看 | 久久综合狠狠综合久久综合88 | 在线观看视频福利 | 99久久久久成人国产免费 | 日本欧美一区二区 | 国产精品乱码一区二区视频 | 日韩精品成人一区 | 成年人在线观看av | 美女啪啪 | 夜夜视频 | 成人激情在线 | 亚洲国产无 | 国产又大又粗又硬 | 亚洲激情综合 | 日韩一级欧美一级 | 国产精品乱码一区二区视频 | 免费观看毛片 | 亚洲免费福利 | 国产黄色成人 | 天天狠天天干 | 日本道中文字幕 | 国产一级精品毛片 | 免费av在线网址 | 久久国产一区 | 久久国产精品视频 | 99久久国产精 | 久久久久婷婷 | 亚洲国产成人91精品 | 日韩一区二区三区免费视频 | 亚洲欧洲日韩 |