First Scene: Shanghai “Flexible Assistance” Helps Homelessness Severe Winter

In a simple room of about 20 square meters, the reporter saw the Vietnamese girl Li Mocai who has lived in Shanghai rescue station for nearly two months. She was sitting around with two other teenage girls from Burma to watch television and chat.

The girl, who was deceived by a “friend” to a foreign land, was taken to the rescue station by the Shanghai police when he was on the streets. Although the life of the rescue station is not rich in variety, she told reporters in a blunt Chinese language: “Every day watching TV, sleeping, eating, and (living) are very good.” Staff at the Shanghai rescue station said that they soon You can embark on a journey home.

At this moment in the open air, Shanghai, which has a temperature of 39%, is experiencing a winter of “frozen people” in 28 years. The 20 rescue vehicles at the Shanghai rescue station are patrolling the streets of all districts and counties in Shanghai to ensure that no one like Li Mocai can spend a warm winter.

Liu Decai, deputy chief of the Shanghai rescue station, told reporters from the China News Service that the Shanghai city has so far saved 3,796 passengers this time, nearly 10% more than the same period last year. The apparent increase in recipients was due to the colder and more severe winter this year, so Shanghai has stepped up its rescue efforts.

In order to ensure that the street wanderers are “not to be less,” Shanghai has also given full play to its social forces this winter. Volunteers, social workers, sanitation workers, and taxi drivers have been mobilized to find wanderers and help them in a timely manner.

Most of the recipients encountered by reporters are foreigners blindly seeking jobs in Shanghai. Dahan Wanchuan River in Shandong can set foot on the train home tomorrow. He told reporters: "The old farmer has been thinking about finding a job, but he never expected to find a living. Now that it is so cold, it must be frozen in the streets. We are very grateful to us for eating and sleeping for free. When a reporter asked if he would come to Shanghai to find a job in the future, he quickly shook his head and smiled and said: "I will not come. I cannot find a job like this."

Not all homeless people are actively receiving assistance like Wanchuanjiang, and many “professionals” on the streets of Shanghai refuse to accept assistance. Liu Decai told reporters that about 15% of street vagrants in Shanghai are “professionals”. Although they are passively treating the rescue, the Shanghai rescue station still adheres to the principle of “flexible assistance” and provides them with clothing and food. It is reported that Shanghai rescue station has issued nearly quilt, coat and other clothing in this winter.

It is ridiculous that some homeless people regard the rescue station as a “free hotel” for a long time. At the beginning of the new year, the news of a 50-person rescue station for half a year for men was of great concern to the people. Zhou Zheng, the head of the Shanghai rescue station, told reporters that such a phenomenon is not uncommon. He explained that China's "Management Measures for Relief" stipulates that the duration of the rescue does not exceed 10 days in general, but currently there are more than a dozen recipients who lived in Shanghai at the rescue station.

“Some of the grantees are reluctant to leave Shanghai and are unwilling to sleep on the street, so they repeatedly enter and exit the rescue station. As there is no train ticket that can be bought temporarily, the rescue time exceeds 10 days.” Zhou Zheng said, “Shanghai The rescue station adopts a 'flexibility assistance' policy, and there are special circumstances that can extend the time for the rescue. Especially during the winter season, we will not take the vulnerable groups on the streets because the rescue station is the next line of defense for the community."

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