Mandatory "two hours outdoors every day": a "hard trick" to prevent myopia from students
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"Two hours outdoors every day" has opened up a normalized study and life mode, which is also a kind of "good education".
On March 11, two pieces of news about "prevention of myopia" attracted attention: Wang Ningli, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the Eye Center of Beijing Tongren Hospital, this year’s "two sessions" proposal is "two hours a day outdoors, physical fitness and prevention of myopia". It is hoped that the school will be compulsory to arrange for students to spend at least one and a half hours of outdoor activities every day. When Tao Yong, a well-known ophthalmologist, was a guest on CCTV’s “Two Sessions” program, he also bluntly stated that the situation was “very severe” and that the number of myopia was increasing and even causing blindness.
It is not the first time that the problem of the high rate of myopia among young people has been brought into focus.
This is the case. Wang Ningli mentioned that “the prevalence of myopia has reached 90% among college students in medical colleges, and the prevalence of myopia has reached more than 80% in ordinary universities, and even in elementary schools, the prevalence of myopia has exceeded 30%.” Dr. Tao Yong mentioned that “the rate of myopia among young people is getting higher and higher, 80% in high school”, which is still shocking.
Dr. Tao Yong’s professional conclusion that “increasing myopia may cause blindness” reminds once again: myopia is not a small problem.
The increasing rate of myopia among young people is not unrelated to the current unhealthy study and lifestyle.
Those who have experienced the era of "no supplementary lessons" know that participating in outdoor activities for a lot of time is an excellent way to protect physical and mental quality, including eyesight.
One of the scientific experts has revealed that the problem of myopia is actually a reflection of the overall physical fitness of the entire children and adolescents, and the simplest and most effective way to prevent it is to return to outdoor activities.
This has also broken many people’s consistent cognition: saving myopia often depends on doing eye exercises, matching glasses, dripping eye drops, or laser correction, and even fantasizing about the "high-tech" that can eliminate myopia in the future. .
However, the goal that can be achieved by insisting on outdoor activities shouldn't be "a headache to treat the head and feet to treat the foot".
Especially in the context where the prevention and treatment of myopia has become an important part of improving the physical fitness of students, the mandatory "two hours outdoors every day" is more to improve the teaching style and the proportion of indoor and outdoor class hours.
Emphasizing "mandatory" is also a vigilance against the inertia of "policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom" under the background of only scores and only admission rate.
This also shows that it is indeed necessary to condense scattered prevention and control measures into unified guidance from the top-level design level to form a standardized system and mechanism to promote a scientific and healthy learning lifestyle.
In fact, Beijing has already taken the lead in this regard: the "Beijing’s Ten Measures for the Prevention and Control of Myopia in Children and Adolescents in Beijing" released in November 2019 requires "two increases and one decrease", and the increase is the time for sports, art, and labor education and the improvement of school quality. ; What is reduced is the burden of off-campus training.
It is also required to prioritize the arrangement of sports activities, and the time for sports activities of primary and middle school students is not less than 1 hour a day when they are in school.
It is worth noting that on March 9, the National Health Commission announced the establishment of the National Child and Adolescent Vision Health Management Expert Advisory Committee, with Wang Ningli as the first chairman of the committee.
He said that in order to implement the "two hours outdoors every day" initiative, he has planned to establish a pilot; he has also reached a preliminary agreement with many primary and secondary schools in Beijing for a one-year trial.
The effect is also worth looking forward to.
In essence, "two hours of outdoor activities a day" not only opens up a normalized study and life mode, but also a "good education".
□Wulichuan (media person)