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.
March 3, 20081Day is the 13th national safety education day for primary and secondary school students, with the theme of "Welcome the People's Olympics and build a harmonious campus together". On March 3 1, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the State Administration of Work Safety, the the State Council Emergency Office, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the National Working Committee for Young Students and the Beijing Municipal People's Government jointly held a publicity and education activity with the theme of National Safety Education Day for Primary and Secondary School Students at the Haidian District Public Safety Museum in Beijing.
Chen Xiaoya, Vice Minister of Education, delivered an important speech. Leading comrades of the Ministry of Public Security, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the State Administration of Work Safety, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the National Youth Working Committee, the Beijing Municipal People's Government, the the State Council Emergency Office and other relevant departments attended the event.