The nutrition improvement plan has benefited 350 million rural students
Our reporter Wu Yue
"In the past, some students had to walk three or four kilometers of mountain roads to go to school, and it was very inconvenient to eat lunch. Since the implementation of the nutrition improvement plan for rural compulsory education students, they have been eating better at school, and the students have grown taller and stronger. It's over!" Li Ming, the principal of Daping Primary School in Majian Township, Xiji County, Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, said happily.
The reporter learned from the Ministry of Education that by the end of 2021, the nutrition improvement plan for rural compulsory education students (hereinafter referred to as the "nutrition improvement plan") has benefited 350 million students.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Education, together with the Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Health Commission, the State Administration for Market Regulation and other relevant departments, has further promoted various tasks of the nutrition improvement plan. The nutritional health status of students in the pilot areas has improved significantly, and their physical fitness has been improved. Significantly improved.
——The standard of nutritious dietary allowance has been raised, and the quality of meals has been improved.
Shredded radish and beef, fried wax gourd slices, fried cauliflower, minced meat and vermicelli soup, apples, milk... On the bulletin board of No. 11 Primary School in Tongren City, Guizhou Province, the daily nutritious lunch recipes are clear at a glance.
Chen Xi, a student in Grade 4, Grade 5, likes school lunches very much. She said, "School lunches are nutritious and delicious!" The quality standard of the meal, so that students can not only eat enough, but also eat nutritiously and scientifically.
This is the epitome of improving the quality of meals and continuously improving the nutritional and health status of students in various places.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country has raised the nutritious meal subsidy standard for rural compulsory education students twice, from 3 yuan per day to 5 yuan per student, gradually realizing the transition from "eating well" to "eating well".
——The dining conditions have been improved, and the feeding rate of school canteens has increased.
In Qinghai Province, education administrative departments at all levels, together with financial departments and other departments, set up a nutrition improvement plan leading group to formulate relevant systems such as nutrition improvement plan implementation plans, fund management methods, and nutrition meal catering guidelines.
At the same time, vigorously promote the construction, reconstruction, expansion and maintenance of school canteens, organize activities such as "sunshine kitchens" and "green canteens", and promote the basic realization of full coverage of boarding school canteens in Qinghai.
It is reported that in order to further improve the dining conditions and increase the meal supply rate of school canteens, the central government allocated special funds for the reconstruction of canteens in rural schools with weak compulsory education to support the construction of canteens in pilot areas.
At the same time, guide all localities to coordinate projects and funds, and further increase the construction of canteens.
By the end of 2021, in the areas where nutrition improvement plans are implemented, 76% of schools implement school canteen meals, of which nearly 90% are in the national pilot counties.
——Establish and improve the working mechanism to ensure the safety of food and funds.
In Qiubei County, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, the "Comprehensive Management Platform of Primary and Secondary School Canteens" has played a great role in the information management of school canteens.
Through the three-party platform of the Education and Sports Bureau, schools, and distribution companies, relevant managers can conduct the whole process of information management on the qualifications of suppliers, food procurement and storage, food safety, and financial management.
Today, all parts of Yunnan are gradually exploring the establishment of a whole-process supervision and management information system, introducing electronic scales, face recognition equipment, pesticide residue detectors, etc., and making full use of the Internet of Things, big data and other technical means to further standardize the refined management of nutrition improvement plans.
In recent years, the Ministry of Education has guided and urged the pilot areas to focus on ensuring food safety and financial security, establish and improve the access and exit mechanism for meals, and improve the centralized and unified procurement system, distribution system, and meal accompaniment system for bulk ingredients and raw and auxiliary materials. The administrative department of education at the highest level regularly organizes special supervision, special rectification and performance evaluation.
In addition, various forms of nutrition science knowledge popularization activities are carried out in various places to cultivate teachers and students' scientific nutrition concepts and eating habits.
The Ministry of Education, together with the National Health Commission, organized nutrition improvement plan management and monitoring training, developed an electronic nutritionist system, etc., to effectively improve the ability of grass-roots staff to prepare meals.
——The nutritional status of students has been significantly improved, and their physical fitness has been significantly improved.
At noon, the buffet in the cafeteria of Danjiang Middle School in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region opened, and the students lined up to serve dishes in an orderly manner.
Teachers of the school introduced that since the school's nutritious meals adopted the self-service mode, the variety of dishes has become more abundant, which not only meets the different needs of students, but also increases nutritional intake, which is more conducive to the healthy growth of students.
According to the monitoring data of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, from 2012 to 2021, the average height of boys and girls in the areas where the nutrition improvement plan was implemented was 4.2 cm and 4.1 cm, and the average weight was 3.5 kg and 3.3 kg. The average growth rate of rural students in the country.
The stunting rate for rural students in the central and western regions in 2021 is 2.5%, a decrease of 5.5 percentage points from 2012.
It is understood that the implementation of the nutrition improvement plan has effectively improved the nutritional and health status of students, played a positive role in controlling dropouts and ensuring schooling, and effectively guaranteed that students will not be affected by nutritional deficiencies. The right and effect of education.
In addition, during the implementation process, various localities adopted methods such as purchasing ingredients nearby and building production and distribution bases, which promoted the precise connection between the demand for agricultural products in schools and the development of rural industries, and provided a large number of jobs, which effectively drove local economic development and farmers’ incomes.
The reporter learned that the nutrition improvement plan has also won international praise.
According to the survey results of 169 countries by the World Food Program, my country is one of the few countries in the world that provides nutritious meals in both middle and primary schools, and the scale of school meals is at the forefront.
"The implementation of the nutrition improvement plan has injected strong impetus into promoting education equity, advancing poverty alleviation, and implementing the rural revitalization strategy, laying a solid foundation for improving national quality, building a strong education country and a healthy China," said the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education.