Ministry of Education: Crack down on issues like "small eyeglasses" and investigate a number of campus food safety incidents seriously

The State Council Information Office held a series of themed press conferences on the high-quality completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan". Deputy Minister of Education Wang Jiayi introduced that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Education implemented the "Student Physical Fitness Plan", promoted the increase of physical education classes, after-school sports services, and longer breaks, popularized 15-minute breaks between classes, implemented the requirement of 2 hours of comprehensive exercise for elementary and middle school students every day, widely organized class leagues, improved physical education exams, enriched the "sports menu", and stimulated enthusiasm for exercise. From the monitoring results, the overall level of student physical fitness in China is stable and improving. Strengthened beauty education. The "School Beauty Education Infiltration Action" has been implemented, taking infiltration as the goal and path, focusing on art education as the main channel, conducting art practice activities for everyone, striving to make every school a garden of art, and making every student an experiencer and practitioner of beauty. Deepening myopia prevention and control. The "Myopia Prevention and Control Bright Action" has been implemented, innovating work ideas, focusing on key stages in kindergartens and primary schools, key factors in electronic product use, and key lighting conditions, refining daily management requirements of schools. The overall myopia rate among students in the country has decreased compared to 5 years ago. Ensuring healthy eating. In the past two years, under the direct leadership of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Commission, the Ministry of Education has conducted special rectification of school canteens in primary and secondary schools, formulated campus food safety guidelines, organized staff training, improved canteen hardware facilities, promoted the establishment of parent committees for food supervision in primary and secondary schools, and seriously dealt with a number of incidents of campus food safety. Recently, some places still have issues with campus food safety, and the Ministry of Education will continue to focus on this issue, strengthen efforts, clarify responsibilities from all parties, and decisively protect the "safety on the tip of the tongue" of children. Caring for mental health. The Ministry of Education has implemented the "Student Mental Health Special Action Plan", building a "four-in-one" work system of health education, monitoring and early warning, counseling services, and intervention and disposal, forming a synergy of government, schools, families, and social work. Through efforts, the degree of attention from all sectors of society has further increased, the school work system has been further improved, and the departmental cooperation mechanism has been further perfected, effectively curbing the rising trend of mental health problems.