Safety standards must be enforced

The symptoms recently reported by some pupils in a primary school in Beijing, for which the school's plastic running track has been blamed, has caused extensive concerns over the safety of such running tracks and the official's attitude toward this issue.

People are questioning why lessons have not been learned, since similar cases were reported in 15 cities across the country in 2015 alone. The public has also questioned why no effective measures have been taken to stop the widespread occurrence of such a safety problem since the popularization of plastic running tracks in China 10 years ago.

To people's surprise, almost all the plastic running tracks tested have conformed to national standards. For example, following the exposure of the health problems of pupils at a Beijing primary school, test results confirm the running track meets the national quality standards.