China News Service, March 12, according to the website of the Ministry of Education, in order to further promote the comprehensive implementation of the "Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Myopia in Children and Adolescents Implementation Plan" in various localities, primary and secondary schools, and kindergartens, create a publicity and education atmosphere for myopia prevention and control, and improve the level of eye health knowledge, Work together to improve the quality and efficiency of myopia prevention and control in children and adolescents, and achieve a faster decline in myopia rates in children and adolescents across the country and in various regions. Recently, the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the National Administration of Disease Control and Prevention jointly issued a notice to decide In March 2024, the 8th National Myopia Prevention and Control Publicity and Education Month will be launched with the theme of "Effectively reducing the occurrence of myopia and jointly protecting a bright future".
Six deployments were announced.
The first is to promote the “Six Ones” pilot program for myopia prevention and control.
The national children and adolescent myopia prevention and control reform experimental areas and pilot counties (cities, districts) named by the Ministry of Education combined with the requirements of the myopia prevention and control reform experimental pilot work, and deployed in primary and secondary schools and kindergartens to carry out "posting a standard logarithmic eye chart in each class, Primary and secondary school students do eye exercises every morning and afternoon, carry out in-class vision self-tests every month, carry out myopia prevention and control science education activities every quarter, carry out special deployments at the beginning of each semester, and track and compare the vision status of all students in the school every year.” Wait for the "Six Ones" myopia prevention and control pilot, explore and summarize innovative measures and effective methods for myopia prevention and control.
The second is to ensure that primary and secondary school students have normal activities between classes.
Primary and secondary schools should arrange for students to get out of the classroom for appropriate activities and relaxation during each class period, and arrange 30 minutes of sports activities between classes every day, so that students can have more time to do outdoor activities and look far into the distance to relieve visual fatigue.
The third is to carry out in-depth publicity and education on myopia prevention and control.
Local education, health, disease control and other departments have strengthened the integration of medicine and education, and medical schools have collaborated to organize myopia prevention and control propaganda groups, ophthalmology and children's eye care experts, and go to primary and secondary schools, kindergartens, and communities to carry out myopia prevention and vision health education activities and The free eye clinic activities vigorously popularize scientific methods of preventing and controlling myopia and the dangers of high myopia, help children develop good eye-use habits, support and guide medical institutions to assist schools in strengthening students' vision examination and consultation guidance, and guide students with poor vision to receive timely correction and do To early prevention, early detection, early intervention and early correction of myopia.
The fourth is to carry out vision monitoring of primary and secondary school students.
Primary and secondary schools carry out vision monitoring once during the publicity and education month, focusing on the changes in vision of primary and secondary students after returning to school from winter vacation, and promptly feedback the vision monitoring results to students and parents.
The fifth is to severely crack down on illegal activities in marketing.
Market supervision departments in various regions have strengthened the measurement supervision of spectacle manufacturing and dispensing sites, carried out in-depth product quality enforcement related to myopia prevention and control, intensified the crackdown on illegal activities such as false propaganda related to myopia prevention and control, severely investigated and punished various illegal activities, and strictly investigated and dealt with children in accordance with the law. Misleading marketing and promotion of youth myopia prevention and control products.
Sixth, select trees to promote advanced models of myopia prevention and control.
Select and vigorously publicize a group of advanced schools and classes for myopia prevention and control, and guide schools, teachers, students, and parents to establish the educational concept of health first.