Original title: The overall myopia rate of children and adolescents in China is 52.7%
Beijing1October 26th, by reporter Fan Zhongqing. Com) Today, the Ministry of Education held a press conference. Wang Dengfeng, director of the Mechanism Office of the National Joint Conference on Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Myopia among Children and Adolescents and director of the Department of Sports Health and Art Education of the Ministry of Education, disclosed at the meeting that the overall myopia rate of children and adolescents in China was 50.2% in 20 19. Compared with 53.6% in 20 18, the overall myopia rate of children and adolescents in China in 2020 is 52.7%, which is 2.5% higher than that in 20 19, but still 0.9% lower than that in 20 18.
Wang Dengfeng said that prevention and control of myopia among children and adolescents should adhere to the principle of "one increase, one decrease and one guarantee", in which "one increase" means increasing physical exercise, "one decrease" means reducing unnecessary schoolwork burden, and "one guarantee" means strengthening policy guarantee.
"It is the basic problem for children and the most difficult problem to solve to really reduce the heavy academic burden." Wang Dengfeng said, therefore, we must first solve the problem of ideological understanding, that is, the reduction should be reduced and the increase should be increased. Only a two-pronged approach can truly promote the healthy development of children's vision.
It is understood that in the next step, the Ministry of Education will take targeted myopia prevention and control measures for children and adolescents in different classes, different types of schools and different regions; Scientifically and accurately guide all localities to play the role of government-led and school-based positions and promote social participation; Scientifically and accurately guide all localities and schools to reduce students' academic burden, reduce the use of electronic products, reduce the rate of new myopia, slow down the progress of myopia, and reduce the rate of high myopia; Strengthen students' outdoor activities and physical exercise, implement vision monitoring, and improve the environment of vision health.
In addition, the National Health and Wellness Commission and the Ministry of Education and other departments are taking a series of action measures to jointly promote the prevention and control of myopia, such as signing a responsibility letter, establishing an evaluation system, comprehensively finding out the base of myopia rate, strengthening monitoring and evaluation, popularizing appropriate technologies, and extensively carrying out social publicity and education.
The National Health and Wellness Commission has carried out pilot projects on appropriate technologies for prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents in 83 districts and counties across the country, and the second batch of pilot projects will be launched in the next step. On the basis of achieving full coverage of monitoring and evaluation at the prefecture level, we will strive to achieve full coverage of monitoring in counties (districts) within our jurisdiction in 2026, 5438+0.