Beijing Sanyuanli Community’s “Children’s Words and Opinions” empowers grassroots governance with “great wisdom”
2024-08-16
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Qianlong.com News: Recently, Sanyuanli Community in Chaoyang District, Beijing, has used the Children's Council as a starting point to enable "child-friendly communities" to truly empower grassroots community governance and jointly build a beautiful and happy home.
This summer, Sanyuanli Community provided a forum for children in the community through innovative counseling and group discussions, integrated the "Children's Observation Group" into the Children's Council, and guided children to fully express their own ideas and actual needs for community construction. Under the guidance of community staff, the children went into the community for field research, carefully recorded, and exchanged ideas with experienced staff members. Finally, they returned to the council hall with the research results and brainstormed with the group members to pool their wisdom.
As the children walked, looked, asked and thought in the community, many interesting ideas gradually took shape: "I hope there can be a swing in the community, I hope to plant more flowers in the community in the future, there are too few children's play facilities in the community, let's build a playground..." From popularizing legal knowledge against domestic violence to prevention strategies for school bullying; from building a safe and harmonious community environment to improving self-protection home safety skills, to advocating a new style of civilization and becoming a little propagandist of family education, every proposal of the children is full of innocence and responsibility. The Sanyuanli Community Children's Observation Group not only allows the little masters to gain happiness and growth, but also stimulates their enthusiasm for participating in community construction and contributes new ideas to community development.
According to Xu Jie, secretary of the Party Committee of Sanyuanli Community, “In order to better listen to children’s voices, create a platform for children to express themselves freely, especially encourage children to participate in community affairs during holidays or weekends, and promote the construction of child-friendly communities, our community has established a children’s council. By constantly innovating the children’s council system, children can better participate in community grassroots governance, and gradually form a pattern of children’s participation in community governance with the leadership of the party and government, collaboration among departments, support from society, and participation by everyone, to help build a child-friendly city.” Next, the Sanyuanli Community Party Committee will deepen party building as the core, give full play to the role of the children’s observation group, enrich the content of children’s deliberations, broaden children’s horizons, form social synergy, and create a social governance platform for children to “co-governance, co-construction, and sharing.”
The community "at the doorstep" is a home where residents live together and the grassroots foundation of the national governance system. It is related to the sense of gain, happiness and security of every citizen. Children are not only observers and advisers, but also participants in community construction. The Sanyuanli Community Children's Observation Group is a concrete manifestation of the promotion of child-friendly concepts, and an important carrier for respecting and protecting children's rights and interests. By building a platform for children's councils, it enhances the close connection between children and the community, and cultivates children's ability to participate, discover, explore and think, constantly improves the long-term mechanism of children's participation, further enhances the sense of ownership of children in the jurisdiction, and promotes the implementation of the creation of child-friendly communities.
