All primary students in S China’s Hainan required to learn swimming by end of August to avoid safety hazards
为避免安全隐患，海南要求小学毕业生8月底前全部学会游泳
According to the latest requirements of local education department, all primary school students in South China’s Hainan Province have to master swimming skills by the end of August in order to cope with possible safety risks in the summer season. Students from elementary to junior high school must all learn to swim by the end of November this year.
In a conference held on Tuesday, the Hainan Education Department asked several local authorities to seriously reflect on the pain caused to families by accidents involving students that have happened so far this year and urged to make every effort to improve and promote swimming education for primary and secondary school students with solid actions. The department made a call to ramp up swimming education as an important local project and to make the public felt more at ease.
The local education department required all swimming pools in the province to be put into use by Tuesday and instructed primary and secondary schools and qualified training institutions to seize the favorable opportunity of summer vacation to launch a swimming education campaign. For the 13 townships where swimming pools are not yet covered, local authorities will urge the construction of swimming pools to be put into use by the end of November.
Swimming education has long been a concern for the authorities in various Chinese provinces as well as schools at all levels. In 2017, the Hainan provincial government issued the “Hainan Provincial Implementation Plan for Popularization of Swimming Education for Primary and Secondary School Students,” which proposed that the province would take three years to popularize swimming education in primary and secondary schools. The plan included the basic completion of the construction of at least one swimming pool in each township by 2018, allowing more than 50% of primary and secondary school students to learn to swim and the inclusion of swimming competitions on the secondary school games.
近日，海南省普及中小学生游泳教育2021年第三次视频推进会召开，会上要求，全省各小学的毕业生须在8月底前全部学会游泳，小学四年级至初中三年级的学生须在11月底前全部学会游泳。目前游泳池还未覆盖到的13个乡镇，要在11月底前建成游泳池并投入使用。
会议指出，各地各校要认真反思今年以来发生的学生安全事故，把全面普及中小学生游泳教育作为“一把手”工程加以推进，建立台账、倒排工期、挂图作战、挂牌督办，加强对游泳教育培训过程的安全管理情况、游泳培训合格考核情况、游泳教育专项经费使用情况等方面的监管，及时加大督办力度、开展明察暗访，以拉网式督查确保中小学生游泳教育普及工作顺利推进、不出任何问题。
