Around this year’s Children’s Day, the departments and offices in Hongkou district have organized many activities. Different from the previous ones, this year’s activities are mostly combined with the hot topics as: “creation of civilized district”, “technologies” and “public services”, in order to let children gain knowledge during playing.
Civilization
On June 1, the Hongkou Leadership Office for Building A Civilized District of Shanghai, the District Working Committee for Women and Children, the District Committee of the Communist Youth League, the District Bureau of Education, the District Working Committee of the Young Pioneers of China held an activity with the theme for celebrating the National Children’s Day. Gu Yunhao, standing member and director of the Organization Department of the CPC District Committee, Liu Ke, standing member and director of the Publicity Department of the CPC District Committee, Liu Wei, deputy chief of the CYL Shanghai Committee, Li Guohua, deputy district governor, and Wu Genming, vice chair of the CPPCC District Committee took part in the activity with nearly 600 CYL members or young pioneers. The activity, themed with “Civilized and Good Habits”, is divided into three parts: Our Members, Our Hongkou and Our Actions. In the office building, more than 20 Young Pioneer’s groups showed sci-tech innovations, traditional cultures, sports activities and classes of Young Pioneers. After that, excellent individuals and collectives of 2014 were awarded.
Currently, the women’s federation in Jiaxing Road Sub-district has organized an activity for the children’s day with a theme of “Smart Education, Happy Growth-up” at Jiaxing Community Cultural Activity Center. Senior early education teachers and parents shared knowledge of professional early education on site. The organizer sent the parents a letter to remind them about their impact on social and family activities and encourage good family culture created with parents’ activities and speeches, in order to improve parental emotion and create a civilized district.
Jiangwan Town Sub-district has prepared a serious of family outings on Children’s day. The activities were classified into three sections, namely “A Good Place for Children’s Day” park party, “Children’s Imagination” handmade crafts, and “Small Hands Painting the World” painting competition. Children acted as judges to grade the works in the competition.
Charity
Recently, Hongkou Teenagers’ Activity Center has become a “charity bazaar”, and more than 80 families have participated in charity.
Pu Jin, a vendor from No. 3 Central Primary School of Hongkou District, told the reporter that all the gadgets have been made together by the students and the disabled children. The DIY work has played a positive role in their rehabilitation, and this special meaning also bring high popularity to Pu Jin’s stall.
According to statistics, the charity raised a total of RMB13,312 in all that day, which would be donated to “Read to Kids” to promote the teenagers’ public reading.
In future, Hongkou Teenagers’ Activity Center will continue to cooperate with “Read to Kids” to sow the seed of “Love reading, Show your love” by holding a series of activities like “Candy Book Basket”, “Picture Book Play” and “Picture Book Reading”. At the day of charity sales, the sponsor also donated a book corner to the First Primary School of Tangshan Road to let more children love reading and share happiness, where the migrant workers accompanying children account for 80%.
Science and Technology
A few days ago, 2015 Shanghai Technology Sports Carnival opened at No. 318, New Tongxin Road.
Firstly, Shanghai Motorcycle Sports team played thrilling riding through the ring of fire, just like a Hollywood action blockbuster. Immediately, with the huge motor roar, the professional race cars gave a drift racing show on the long straight to let the children feel speed and passion.
Later, the unmanned helicopter performed aerobatics in the air, which cannot be done by the manned helicopters. In the artificial lake, two navigation model world champions brought the world-class performance of power boats and sailing ship models, and all the children had their eyes fixed on the performance.
The carnival was host by Shanghai Administration of Sports, undertaken by Shanghai Military Sports Club and co-organized by the CYL District Committee and Guangzhong Road Sub-district.