China Remains Focused on American School Bus Te Chinese government and local enterprise continue to
ramp up efforts to increase student transportation safety after several high-profile crashes shocked the global community, and increasingly they are looking West for insights on how to ac- complish these goals. International outrage centered on a head-on crash last No-
vember involving a school van packed with 62 students, ages 5 and 6, and a truck. Twenty-one of the students, their driver and an adult chaperone were killed while 41 students were seri- ously injured. Tis tragedy came after China began implementing new regulations in 2010 to mandate seat belts and black boxes in school buses that are now painted yellow like their American cousin. However, Chinese school buses are actually motorcoach- es and not constructed to U.S. federal standards. Earlier this year, Blue Bird and IC Bus exhibited their American
school bus brands at Chinese industry trade shows, and the OEMs were again invited to be among the commercial vehicle exhibitors at this month’s Busworld Asia in Guangzhou near Hong Kong. At this writing, neither company could confirm their attendance. Busworld Asia began in partnership with Chinese bus build-
ers in 2001. An event spokeswoman said the Asian Coach Week Awards will be presented for the first time this year to Chinese school bus manufacturers.
Attendees at the 2010 Busworld Asia trade show in Shanghai. NAPT President Alexandra Robinson was invited as a keynote
speaker for the conference portion, the spokeswoman said. NAPT’s Executive Director Michael Martin said Robinson has made it a priority as president to continue what she calls “global outreach.” “(Robinson) views the opportunities that we’ve had in China,
in particular, and in Dubai, Saudia Arabia, and other parts of the world as part of our core mission to continue informing the rest of the world of the value we place on the yellow bus in North America,” he added. ■
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