China's Ministry of Education instructed kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools to upgrade security, after a spate of violent attacks against students.
Education Minister Yuan Guiren said at a video conference on April 14 that schools should integrate safety awareness into the curriculum and teach children self-protection.
Yuan also mandated that schools hire security guards, install security facilities and make sure young students were escorted home.
The conference was held in the wake of recent cases of school violence, the worst of them in Nanping, Fujian Province, where a man slew eight elementary school children. |