Bao Yajun： Chinese blind road makes the blind have no way to go.

　　Years ago, on the train home, I always heard people sigh with emotion: "My hometown has changed so much." This is true, China has entered the rising period of urban development, and new asphalt roads can be seen everywhere. The city is clean and the road is easy to walk, which gives people the most intuitive feeling, and the "change" will be great.

　　The street trees are green and the sidewalks beside them are colorful, so I feel good when I walk. It’s just that the newly built sidewalks always seem to be a little lame when walking. It turns out that the design of urban roads is paved with special yellow floor tiles for the blind. In this way, it is much more convenient for the blind to travel. The blind road with yellow protruding stripes is like the static eyes of the blind. It is paved on the pavement of the road, and it is achieved by using the sense of feet of the blind and the sense-helping principle of blind brick.

　　However, the nonstandard urban construction has left more blind people "nowhere to go". Yellow lanes are either blocked by telephone poles or lead to a dead end, and there are many twists and turns in the design of blind roads, which not only fail to help the "blind", but also help the "blind".

　　There are about 5 million blind people in China, accounting for 18% of the world and 3.8‰ of the national population, with an average of 3,800 blind people per million people. About 450,000 blind people are added every year, and by 2020, the total number of blind people is expected to reach 20 million. China is the country with the largest number of blind people in the world. The transportation of blind people is a livelihood issue that cannot be ignored and has always been highly concerned by the government.

　　2014 is the 13th year that the Code for Barrier-free Design of Urban Roads and Buildings was promulgated and implemented in China. Article 34 of the Traffic Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China also clearly stipulates that "the sidewalks of major urban roads should be provided with blind roads according to the plan." In fact, due to insufficient publicity among the people and other reasons, large-scale blind road construction in domestic cities has not greatly helped the blind to walk.

　　This detail in urban construction shows our lack of barrier-free hardware, and it also shows that caring for vulnerable groups has become a piece of paper.

　　Everyone in the city has their independent right to subsistence and development. The temperature of the city lies in caring for people and caring for vulnerable groups. Without these, the city will be like a cold steel forest, and the society will become indifferent. How will harmony be achieved?

　　People’s subjective status, dignity, freedom and interests are declared or recognized as rights, not only because they are often in danger of being violated and denied, but also because human rights are the yardstick and motive force of social civilization and progress.

　　Perhaps what we need is not a "blind road", but social order and legal norms. When we can’t use morality to restrain behavior, only by standardizing legislation, strictly enforcing the law and establishing the socialist concept of rule of law can we convince the people that "the people’s yearning for a better life is our goal."

　　Source: Jingchu.com

(Source: Jingchu. com)