2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and is also a critical year for achieving the goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan" for eye health.
Recently, the national "Two Sessions" are in progress. During the session, the issue of "small glasses" and the issue of national eye health have once again become one of the hot topics of discussion among committee members.
Pay attention to the Two Sessions, pay attention to the youth myopia prevention and control proposals, and let’s pay attention to the views of the National People’s Congress deputies on the eye health of the whole people.
Li Shijie, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference:
Build a "protective wall" for children and adolescents' vision health
Li Shijie called for attention to the eye health of young people, controlling the time spent on electronic screens in the classroom, and building a "protective wall" for children and young people's visual health.
He believes that using electronic screens for too long will aggravate eye fatigue, although the "Bright Action Work Plan for Myopia Prevention and Control in Children and Adolescents (2021-2025)" stipulates: "Teaching and assigning homework do not rely on electronic products, and the principle of using electronic products for teaching time is The teaching time shall not exceed 30% of the total teaching time." However, in fact, the implementation situation varies from place to place, and the system still needs to be "escorted" and the "safety line" delineated. It is recommended to increase research, introduce detailed measures, and enhance guidance.
In addition, he also suggested strengthening home-school interaction, proactively informing parents of relevant regulations in appropriate forms, popularizing relevant knowledge, guiding relevant methods, guiding and helping parents to effectively control the time children and teenagers use electronic devices outside school, and avoid "rebound" outside school. ".
Fan Xianqun, deputy to the National People’s Congress:
Focus on the implementation of prevention and control policies and measures
The results show that heavy eye load, lack of outdoor activities, lack of sleep, and bad eye habits are important causes of eye health problems in children.
Fan Xianqun believes: "The pathogenesis of myopia is still not completely clear, which leads to the lack of particularly effective and practical strategies for prevention and control. Therefore, despite our efforts, the incidence of myopia remains high. ." He suggested strengthening prevention and control methods, strengthening research on the pathogenesis of myopia, and further proposing safe, effective, feasible and accessible prevention and control methods.
Fan Xianqun has organized teams to conduct surveys in cities and rural areas in 7 provinces and municipalities many times, and conducted a sample survey of more than 50,000 parents, students and teachers. The results showed that heavy eye load, lack of outdoor activities, lack of sleep, and poor eye use Habits are an important cause of eye health problems in children.
He proposed to implement comprehensive prevention and control measures, including reducing student burdens and increasing physical education class hours, to ensure that students have at least one hour a day and lower-grade students have at least two hours of outdoor activity time a day.
Ni Minjing, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference:
Myopia rate among teenagers should be “double reduced”
First performance indicator
The myopia rate should be used as an important indicator for assessing the quality of education in schools and regions. If the standards are not met, school and regional leaders must be held seriously accountable. Every year, youth vision reports and myopia rates in each region will be published in the mainstream media to accept social supervision.
In his proposal, Ni Minjing suggested that the myopia rate should be used as an important indicator for school and regional education quality assessment. If the standards are not met, school and regional leaders should be held seriously accountable. Every year, the youth vision report and myopia rate in each region should be published in the mainstream media and accepted by society. supervision.
He said: “I have seen in the past that a principal was dismissed due to a decrease in the school’s enrollment rate. In the future, I will definitely see that regional and school leaders will be held accountable due to an increase in myopia rates.”
In recent years, the myopia rate among teenagers has remained high, showing a trend of younger and more profound myopia. Last year, the Ministry of Education and other 15 departments jointly issued the "Bright Action Work Plan for Myopia Prevention and Control in Children and Adolescents (2021-2025)", which proposed that by 2030, the goal of controlling the myopia rate among 6-year-old children at around 3% would be achieved, and the myopia rate among primary school students would be reduced to around 3%. below 38%, below 60% for junior high school students, and below 70% for high school students.
In order to achieve the above goals, Ni Minjing suggested that "grasping this indicator should become a bottom line for school education just like the central government's eight regulations, so that government departments, schools and parents at all levels will really pay attention to it." In his view, adolescent myopia is closely related to Whether it is not only a health problem, but also an educational ecological problem. The myopia rate is a symbolic indicator of the educational ecology.
Talking about how to reduce the myopia rate, he believed that “the first thing is to grasp the core indicator of myopia rate and guide the change of social concepts.” He analyzed that the main reason for the high myopia rate is that teachers, parents and students do not really understand "health first" and have insufficient awareness of the dangers of myopia. Many people think that to be myopic anyway, don’t you just need to wear a pair of glasses? In the face of test scores and enrollment rates, everyone invariably gives up their health bottom line.
Post time: Apr-05-2024