Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 21 (Reporter Li Heng) The report of the State Council on the promotion of children's health, which was submitted to the 35th meeting of the 13th National People's Congress Standing Committee on the 21st, shows that my country has concentrated its efforts on solving key problems of children's health. , comprehensively prevent and control myopia in children and adolescents, strengthen the prevention and control of obesity in children and adolescents, and make every effort to promote children's health.
Children and adolescents are in a critical period of growth and development, and prevention of myopia is a "compulsory course" for children to grow up healthily.
The report pointed out that my country has comprehensively strengthened the prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents, formulated and released the "Implementation Plan for Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Myopia in Children and Adolescents", continued to carry out myopia monitoring, carried out pilot projects of suitable techniques for prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents and suitable techniques of traditional Chinese medicine, and strengthened children's protection against the new crown pneumonia epidemic. During the period, professional guidance on myopia prevention, strengthening school health supervision and inspection, and actively promoting the rectification of illegal and illegal commercial propaganda of myopia prevention and control products.
Through the introduction of a series of measures to "protect seedlings", our country strives to give children a bright future.
In 2020, the coverage rate of eye care and vision examinations for children aged 0-6 was 91.8%; the overall myopia rate for children and adolescents was 52.7%, down 0.9 percentage points from 2018.
Not only myopia, but also overweight, obesity, malnutrition and other problems also seriously affect the health of children and adolescents in my country.
According to the report, my country has issued the "Implementation Plan for the Prevention and Control of Obesity in Children and Adolescents", intensified scientific guidance and popularization and education, strengthened monitoring and evaluation, continued to carry out nutrition intervention projects in key areas, promoted concepts such as reasonable diet and scientific exercise, and promoted home-school linkages. The society joins forces to push children to "keep your mouth shut and stretch your legs".
The report shows that in the next step, my country will focus on children's infectious diseases, common diseases, frequently-occurring diseases, as well as myopia, obesity, scoliosis, autism, mental health and other issues, further improve the prevention and control system and working mechanism, and fully implement the rehabilitation of children with disabilities. Relief system, do a good job in the prevention and treatment of children's new coronary pneumonia, and effectively put prevention first and combine prevention and treatment.