Safety accidents have become the first cause of death for children under 14. Campus safety involves more than 20 hidden dangers in teenagers' life and study. Some experts pointed out that 80% of accidental injuries can be avoided by improving the self-protection ability of primary and secondary school students through safety education. In order to comprehensively and deeply promote safety education in primary and secondary schools and vigorously reduce the occurrence of all kinds of casualties.
Starting from 1996, the week of the last week of March will be the national safety education day for primary and secondary school students in China. The purpose of establishing this system is to comprehensively and deeply promote the safety education of primary and secondary school students, vigorously reduce the incidence of all kinds of casualty accidents, do a good job in the safety protection of primary and secondary school students, and promote their healthy growth.
On March 25th of that year, Li Lanqing, then member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, delivered a televised speech on the first safety education day for primary and secondary school students in China, demanding that the whole society should care about the safety work of primary and secondary schools.