介绍:
Pujiang (浦江), a county in China's coastal Zhejiang province, has issued a new regulation granting bonus points to children whose parents have donated large amounts of blood. According to the regulation, people donating blood totaling above 4000 millimeters will enjoy bonus points ranging from 1 to 3 in the national high school entrance exam. The local education department says this policy is aimed at encouraging more people to take part in blood donation in order to save a tight local blood bank.
(QD) Chu Zhaohui, researcher at the National Institute of Education Sciences, tells people.com.cn,
What's most important in education? Fairness. Education has to ensure fairness in itself. But this policy makes no difference from discriminating against parents with poor health conditions who cannot make big donations of blood or even need blood transfusion.
(JA) Tian Zhengping, professor at Zhejiang University, raises his doubt on thepaper.cn,
As a matter of fact, the central government discourages any policy concerning bonus points grant so as to ensure education fairness. And governments at all levels across the nation are actively conforming to the guidance of central government. How this county government dare go against central government's policy?!
(LK) And on xinhuanet.com, Shang Yiying says,
Blood donation should be done voluntarily. But this policy has turned such a voluntary act into business. Every point in high school entrance exam is rather important. China is a country with such a dense population; one point can even play the role of changing a student's future. In order to get such a reward, lots of parents will flood into the local blood bank. But what they're doing is just an exchange of interests, rather than on a voluntary basis.
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Notes:--Blood donation of 4000, 6000 and 8000 milliliters correspond to bonus points of one, two and three.--Currently, in Pujiang County, there're 24 people making blood donations totaling over 4000 milliliters, and only one person who've donated over 8000 milliliters of blood.-- This policy came into practice in August.--A survey done by China Philosophy Times of nearly 10,000 people shows 69 percent of attendants oppose such a policy.
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(QD) Chunfeng Ruirui raises his point of view on weibo.com
According to Chinese law, a blood donator can donate no more than 400 milliliter of blood at one time. And the interval between two blood donations should be no shorter than half a year. Therefore, one needs at least five years to reach the threshold of getting bonus points. If he/she wants to get the highest bonus points in exam, they have to donate blood insistently for ten years. How many people can manage to do that? If there're really people making it by donating blood for five or ten consecutive years, I think they really deserve such a reward.
(LK) On thepaper.cn, Yang Jianhua,
researcher at the Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences, shows his understanding towards this policy, I believe such a policy is made out of good intention. In Pujiang county few people are willing to donate their blood, which results in an acute short of blood in local blood bank. You must know that even a few drops of blood can save a sick patient's life. It's the harsh reality that force the local government to combine scores in major exams, which Chinese students value the most, with blood donation to enrich the local blood bank. It's totally understandable.
(JA) And Cai Rang Duo Ji points out on ftchinese.com,
In recent years, local governments at all levels have issued all kinds of stimulation policies to encourage blood donation. But the average blood donation rate in the mainland is still lagging behind the global level. In contrast, in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, though there's no official stimulation policy, the average blood donation rate sits high above the global level. I think we should learn from these places to make more active moral encouragements and make the public thoroughly understand the importance of blood donation, rather than attract the public to do so simply by granting them benefits.
