say goodbye to bringing your own tableware to class... beijing's primary and secondary schools' "first meal of the new semester" has a new look
2024-09-02
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china youth daily client, beijing, september 2 (china youth daily·china youth network reporter fan weichen) "today's meal is delicious, with stewed beef with potatoes, stir-fried vegetables, and small cakes..." at noon on september 2, zhang xinyi from class 7, grade 6 of baijiazhuang primary school in chaoyang district, beijing, introduced her "first meal of the new semester" to the china youth daily·china youth network reporter. unlike before, zhang xinyi did not bring her own lunch box today, but used the uniform lunch plates prepared by the school.
a new semester brings a new atmosphere. china youth daily and china youth network reporters learned from the beijing municipal education commission that beijing has launched a series of new measures to make students eat more hygienic, nutritious, healthy and safer in school.
"bucket meals" are delivered to the classroom to make students eat hotter
at 12:00 noon on september 2, the reporter saw that the food delivery staff of class 9, grade 5 of baijiazhuang primary school came to the door of the classroom with a food cart and food buckets and new tableware, and the head teacher was also ready to serve meals to the students.
the "first meal of the new semester" in beijing's primary and secondary schools has a new look. the picture shows staff from baijiazhuang primary school in chaoyang district, beijing, delivering dining buckets and tableware. photo courtesy of beijing education media center
it is understood that this semester, all primary and secondary schools in beijing have achieved full coverage of "bucket meals to classes" by providing lunch through off-campus catering. according to the relevant person in charge of the beijing municipal education commission, the "bucket meals" delivered to the classroom not only ensure the temperature of the meals, but also better preserve the taste and nutritional content of the dishes, making the taste better, so that students can eat with peace of mind and happiness. behind the realization of the goal is the fact that the education commissions of various districts and schools have done a lot of work in the early stage, laying the foundation for the realization of the "bucket meals to classes" goal.
all schools have also made adequate preparations. wang xiangang, canteen manager of baijiazhuang primary school, said that the staff starts work at 4:00 in the morning. the vegetables and fruits of the day are delivered at this time. after the processes of picking, picking, washing and cutting, the staff starts frying at 10:00. "this ensures that the food is delivered to the classroom door before 12 o'clock and is served hot."
providing unified tableware to reduce the burden on students and parents
previously, the beijing municipal education commission and the beijing municipal education commission found in their research that due to limited conditions in some schools, students need to carry lunch boxes and meal bags every day in addition to school bags. in order to reduce the burden on students and parents, starting from the new semester, beijing encourages and advocates schools to provide students with unified tableware. for schools that do not have the conditions, they need to continue to explore and gradually achieve the goal of providing unified tableware for all students.
the "first meal of the new semester" in beijing's primary and secondary schools has a new look. the picture shows the head teacher of baijiazhuang primary school in chaoyang district, beijing, distributing meals to students. photo courtesy of beijing education media center
this year, the fengtai district education commission of beijing has coordinated with schools that provide meals outside the school to ensure that all students are provided with "non-disposable tableware" before the start of the school year, involving 49 school sites in total, benefiting more than 26,000 students who eat there. at the same time, the district has also promoted the schools that have entrusted the operation of canteens to gradually provide students with "non-disposable tableware", involving a total of 109 school sites, benefiting more than 70,000 students who eat there.
while schools are gradually implementing the provision of unified tableware, each district and school has also fully considered the cleaning and disinfection of tableware. at the fourth primary school of jinding street, shijingshan district, beijing, the tableware used by students in the past was a disposable set provided by the catering company, including wet wipes, forks and spoons. in order to provide students with better dining conditions, the school cancelled the teacher's restaurant and used it for the back kitchen, converting it into a cleaning and disinfection workshop.
the canteen of the yonghegong primary school affiliated to dongzhimen middle school in beijing is a commissioned canteen. the original disinfection room was only more than 20 square meters. with the increase in the number of students in recent years, it can no longer meet the disinfection needs. this summer, with the support of the dongcheng district education commission, the school carried out a canteen renovation project and upgraded its facilities and equipment. by tapping the potential of school resources, a disinfection room was added to solve the problem of students bringing their own tableware.
the original dishwashers at beijing xicheng district experimental primary school were old and the number of dishwashers could not match the number of existing student tableware. with the support of the district education commission, the school purchased new dishwashers, which were installed during the summer vacation and are now in use.
"the school provides tableware as a measure to ensure safe and hygienic dining for students," said a relevant person in charge of the beijing municipal education commission. "of course, if parents and students do not want to use the tableware provided by the school, they can bring their own. we adhere to the principle of voluntariness."
school leaders accompany the meal and start a new classroom for educating students
"what i am most concerned about is whether today's meals are delicious and how well they are kept warm," said an haixia, principal of baijiazhuang primary school, who had just finished her meal with her students.
the "first meal of the new semester" in beijing's primary and secondary schools has a new look. the picture shows the school leaders of baijiazhuang primary school in chaoyang district, beijing, accompanying the students for the meal. photo courtesy of beijing education convergence media center
the school-level leadership accompanying meal system is another measure taken by beijing to promote campus meals this year. before the start of school, in order to further standardize the management of primary and secondary school canteens and off-campus catering in primary and secondary schools across the city, five departments including beijing municipal education commission, beijing municipal market supervision bureau, beijing municipal health commission, beijing municipal finance bureau, and beijing municipal public security bureau recently jointly issued a series of systems and work guidelines, including the "beijing primary and secondary school canteen management measures", "beijing primary and secondary school off-campus catering management measures", and "beijing primary and secondary school canteen financial management measures". according to the requirements, in the new semester, each school should formulate a meal accompanying plan, and each meal should be eaten by members of the school leadership team and students. the secretary and principal should accompany the meal during school unless there are special circumstances. while accompanying the meal, they should objectively evaluate the food and promptly solve problems such as food quality, quantity, temperature, hygiene, and catering waste found during the meal accompanying process.
it is understood that in addition to school leaders accompanying students for meals, some schools also invite off-campus members of the school catering committee and parents to come to the school and have lunch with the students, in order to push the campus meal work to a higher level.
"the establishment of the meal-accompanying system will help school leaders pay more attention to school food safety and nutrition and health management, and truly shoulder the important responsibility for school food safety." a relevant person in charge of the beijing municipal education commission said: "principals can communicate closely with students, understand their true evaluation of the quality of meals on the spot, and experience the difficulties of students' meals firsthand, so as to identify the direction and difficulties of improvement in school canteens, and better improve the quality of campus meals, so as to further make students eat with satisfaction and parents feel at ease."
in addition, with the integration of artificial intelligence into education, some schools in beijing are actively exploring the construction of smart canteens, continuously improving the quality of meals and safety and hygiene conditions to enable students to grow up healthily.
it is understood that as of now, xicheng district of beijing has achieved 100% coverage of "internet + open kitchen" in campus canteens, established a smart platform to ensure that there are no dead corners or blind spots in key areas of the school, and further improved the effectiveness of supervision and inspection and early warning response capabilities. the smart platform also realizes intelligent supervision and alarms such as face recognition of kitchen staff through video ai algorithms, intelligent analysis of compliance of wear, intelligent monitoring of indoor temperature and humidity, and alarms for stove fire temperature monitoring without anyone, and can generate data and form pictures to facilitate problem tracking and processing.
(source: china youth daily client)
