Yesterday, the local education authorities responded to the video of "Henan Zhumadian Education Bureau hosted a lecture on Chinese studies to become a promotion meeting": the activity has stopped and all products can be returned.

　　After the lecture on Chinese studies

　　Sponsor product display

　　The video shows that when lecturers are teaching traditional virtues, they begin to sell a "Chinese Classics Listening and Reading Machine" with a price of 1,500 yuan, and say that "many schools and families are already using it". Soon, many parents paid for the product.

　　On June 5, Ms. Li, a student’s parent who had attended the lecture and bought a listening and reading machine, told the Beijing Youth Daily reporter that the reason why she participated in the activity was due to a notice from the school. She said that her child is currently in the second grade of a primary school in Zhumadian. "Not long ago, the school issued a notice about the lecture on Chinese studies, encouraging parents to attend."

　　On the afternoon of June 2, Ms. Li attended the event as scheduled. She said that according to the publicity of previous activities, the guest speaker was a national award winner. However, the original guests did not appear at the event. The guest was replaced by a lecturer named Song Zhen. After the lecture, the organizer introduced Song Zhen’s identity and called her an expert in parenting education, but Ms. Li couldn’t recall the name of the institution.

　　Ms. Li said that during the lecture, Song Zhen did not take the initiative to promote the listening and reading machine. "But after the activity, the staff distributed a booklet on Chinese studies education. In addition, the organizer informed the scene that there was a sponsor’s product display, and parents in need could buy it without mandatory requirements. "

　　Work Committee and other departments

　　Jointly organize activities

　　The reporter of Beiqing Daily saw the introduction of this activity from a document stamped with the official seal of the Zhumadian Education Bureau’s Working Committee for Caring for the Next Generation: According to the work arrangement, the Zhumadian Education Bureau’s Working Committee and the Youth Chinese Studies Education Research and Development Working Committee decided to jointly hold a lecture hall in Zhumadian City to promote traditional virtues.

　　According to the document, the organizer of this activity is the Propaganda Group of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the education bureaus of counties and districts, and the primary and secondary schools directly under the bureau. The guest speaker is Tao Moumou (one of the top ten people who moved China in 2014 and the fifth moral model of Tianjin). Participants are kindergarten teachers in primary and secondary schools, parents of students, etc. The scale of the conference is 500 people in each session of the municipal schools and county education bureaus.

　　The document requires that all county and district education bureaus, primary and secondary schools directly under the municipal government and kindergartens should fully realize the importance of carrying forward the education of Chinese traditional virtues and attach importance to and do a good job in organizing activities. This activity is a public welfare lecture hall, and there is no charge. All units should widely publicize, designate special personnel to be responsible for this work and actively participate in this activity.

　　Education bureau responded

　　Parents who have bought it can return it.

　　In response to this matter, the local media in Zhumadian posted a handling opinion stamped with the official seal of Zhumadian Education Bureau in the official Weibo on June 3: According to the preliminary investigation, the problems reflected by the media and netizens are true. The Party Group of Zhumadian Education Bureau attached great importance to this. On the morning of June 3, it held a special meeting to study and put forward the handling opinions on this matter: instructing the Municipal Education Bureau’s Working Committee to write an in-depth inspection to the Party Group. The work committee of the Municipal Education Bureau failed to submit the documents for approval according to the procedures, and after the documents were issued, it failed to effectively supervise the organizers of the activities, and should bear the main responsibility for the occurrence of the incident; Zhumadian Education Bureau set up a joint investigation team with the participation of the discipline inspection and supervision team, office and safety letters and visits department. If violations of rules and regulations are found, they will be dealt with severely according to the law.

　　Responsible by the Municipal Education Bureau’s Working Committee, actively contact with the organizers of the event and make good cooperation. If there is a request to return the money for listening and reading Chinese studies, the money will be returned to the parents after statistics; The Municipal Education Bureau strengthens examination and approval and supervision to ensure that similar problems will not happen again in the future.

　　Brand involved

　　There is no storefront in Zhumadian

　　Yesterday, the reporter of Beiqing Daily contacted the return phone published by the media as a parent. The other party said that it is ok to return the goods, but denied that the activities involved were illegal. According to the staff member, the brand involved has no public storefront in Zhumadian, and only the listening and reading machine experience is set up in the lecturer’s home. The staff said that if parents insist on returning the goods, they can arrange friends to recycle the listening and reading equipment at the agreed place and return all the money. If parents have doubts about product quality, they can go directly to the lecturer’s home to find out.

　　Since then, the reporter of Beiqing Daily has repeatedly tried to contact a certain technology company in Shenzhen, the manufacturer of the listening and reading machine for Chinese studies, but the phone number left on the company’s official website has never been answered.

　　Ms. Li told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that after arriving at school this week, the class teacher of the child’s class informed the parents that it was necessary to return the listening and reading machine purchased at the venue, and the parents would contact the organizer to return it. At present, she has completed the return at the venue where she participated in the event before and got a refund.

　　Text/reporter Xiong Yingqi Kong Lingqi