Guangming Daily： Why does the Braille version of the wedding vows warm people’s hearts？
Recently, a pair of special marriage registrations have attracted praise from all outlets. It turns out that the new couple are both visually impaired, Ms. Zhang is visually disabled at the first level and Mr. Wang is visually disabled at the second level. In life, they can only touch Braille or read large characters.The Marriage Registration Service Center of Xicheng District Civil Affairs Bureau in Beijing provided them with braille version, large print version of marriage registration notice and wedding vows, and handled the marriage registration procedures for them without obstacles.Some netizens commented that "I feel warm across the screen."
What people feel warm is witnessing the happy moment of a couple entering the marriage, and it is also the warm and humanized service behind it for the disabled. You know, it is simple for ordinary people to read the marriage registration notice and read the marriage vows, but it is not easy for the visually impaired to do it independently. Braille version and large-character version of the text accurately solve their urgent needs, so that people with disabilities can go through the process as smoothly as ordinary people.At the important moment of marriage, meeting such intimate and warm-hearted public service is enough for people to remember for life.
On March 12th, the couple Ms. Zhang and Mr. Wang took the wedding vows with the help of the staff. Image source: Xinhua News Agency
It is reported that this is the first time in China to provide visually impaired people with a barrier-free format version of the marriage registration notice and wedding vows. But obviously, this is only a case and the beginning. More changes are already taking place, and more disabled people will enjoy similar public services in the future.
At the two sessions this year, the Braille version of the government work report made its debut, which was provided for Wang Yongcheng, the only visually impaired person among nearly 3,000 NPC deputies.At the age of 18, Wang Yongcheng was blind because of an accident, but he overcame many difficulties and gradually became a medical masseur for the blind, and trained more than 6,000 masseurs for the blind free of charge, driving more blind people onto the road of self-reliance. Fingertips crossed the undulating Braille, and Wang Yongcheng felt the responsibility and responsibility of NPC deputies to perform their duties. The production of this government work report in Braille benefited from the Braille Translation Group established by the Secretariat of the National People’s Congress for the first time.
On the morning of March 5, the second session of the 14th National People’s Congress opened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Wang Yongcheng, a representative of the National People’s Congress, reads the conference documents in Braille with his fingers. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yao Dawei/photo
The performance of duties by deputies to the National People’s Congress and marriage registration, which are "public" and "private", jointly prove the progress of the cause of safeguarding the rights and interests of disabled people in China.In recent years, China’s social security system and care service system for the disabled have been continuously improved, the construction of barrier-free environment in public places and life has been significantly improved, the atmosphere of helping the disabled in the whole society has become increasingly strong, and the barrier-free study, work and life of the disabled have become more and more daily. These are all obvious changes. The Law on the Construction of Barrier-free Environment, which came into effect on September 1 last year, has pressed the fast-forward button for the protection of the rights and interests of the disabled.
In March 2018, Yinchuan held a special job fair for employment assistance for the disabled. Image source: Xinhuanet
It is worth mentioning that, from the blind version of the wedding vows to the Braille version of the government work report, these public services for the disabled are "soft". Although they are not like hardware facilities such as barrier-free access, since they are determined in the form of the Barrier-free Environment Construction Law, it means that all kinds of public services are not optional, but necessary. Relevant regulations are tasks that must be put in place and goals that must be achieved, and relevant departments have corresponding legal responsibilities.
There are 85 million disabled people in China, including more than 17 million visually disabled people. For a long time, there have been many outstanding people among the disabled who are physically disabled and determined, and have walked out of a wonderful life with tenacious perseverance and intelligence.To make it easier for every disabled person to study, work, live, travel and participate in public life, and to provide them with more equal, relaxed and diversified opportunities and stages, the whole society should continue to work hard.