OPINION School Buses The school bus crash that killed 64 children in northwest China’s Gansu Province has shaken
the whole country. Learning from the tragic lesson, some local governments finally decided to change the situation. The local government of Gansu’s Qingyang City decided to cancel all government car purchases for 2012 and spend the budget on standard and safe school bus purchases. Meanwhile, southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality has recently taken a series of measures to investigate the safety of the municipality’s school buses. The first 300 school shuttles made in Chongqing will soon be put onto the roads of three pilot districts and counties.