By Cai Haikang
Good news came from the naming ceremony for international safe community and safe community construction forum, which was held in Qingdao, Shandong Province. Ouyang Road Sub-District and Jiangwan Town Sub-District of Hongkou District were formally awarded as members of the international safe community and Asian safe community network. There are 91 international safe communities nationwide, and Hongkou District occupies two seats. Mr. Gulbrand Skjonberg, Secretary-General of WHO Community Safety Promotion Center, signed contracts with these two sub-districts and granted nameplates to them.
During the period of the “12th Five Year Plan”, the Safe Community Construction Office of Hongkou District has made survey on the general conditions in the district, integrated with various resources, focused on key sections and problems of safe community construction and strengthened the efforts of theoretical guidance and technical support to safe community construction. A cross-boundary participation and resource sharing platform was built by 8 sub-districts in Hongkou District and creative efforts were made on this platform. All of these 8 sub-districts were awarded “Safe Community of Shanghai”. 5 sub-districts were awarded “National Safe Community”. The Safety Supervision Bureau of Hongkou District was awarded a National Advanced Unit of Safe Community Construction.