Whenever school starts, "myopia" is an inescapable topic. Children will find that some students around them are wearing new "childrens glasses", and some students "childrens glasses" have become thicker. In the opening season of March 2019, more than 1,000 primary and secondary schools in 29 provinces across the country set off a wave of "eye love and eye protection", and people deeply felt that how to protect the "light of the future" is a lesson that the whole society needs to catch up on.

The number of "childrens glasses" in our country is alarming

The Ministry of Education released China's first "China Compulsory Education Quality Monitoring Report" in July 2018, among which the problem of poor vision among students is prominent.

According to the report, the detection rate of poor vision among students in grade 4 and grade 8 was 36.5% and 65.3%, respectively, and the proportion of severely poor vision among students in grade 8 was more than 30%.

Previously, the national survey and monitoring results of students' physical health also showed that the rate of poor vision of primary school students, middle school students, high school students and college students was as high as 45.71%, 74.36%, 83.28% and 86.36%. It is estimated that more than 100 million primary and secondary school students are nearsighted nationwide.

The National Visual Health Report white paper estimated that in 2012, the social and economic cost of various visual defects was about 680 billion yuan. If the nearsighted population continues to increase, in aerospace, precision manufacturing, military and other fields, the workforce meeting the vision requirements will face a huge gap, which will directly threaten the sustainable economic and social development and national security.

In Beijing No. 2 Experimental Primary School, an hour of outdoor exercise in the morning has been maintained for more than two years. In the March 2019 school season, the "first lesson of school" in many schools across the country has chosen the theme of protecting eyesight. To give the child a pair of bright eyes, this hope is being answered

At the end of August 2018, the Ministry of Education and other eight departments jointly issued the Implementation Plan for Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Myopia in Children and Adolescents, and the prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents has become a national action. A scientific prevention and control system led by the government, coordinated by departments, guided by experts, educated by schools and concerned by families is being built.

In the opening season of March 2019, more than 1,000 primary and secondary schools in 29 provinces across the country set off a wave of "eye love and eye protection". Local health, education, disease control, women's federations, customs commissions, charity associations and other departments, together with special eye hospitals, for students, teachers, parents to bring more than 500 eye health science lectures.

In order to remove the "little glasses", the whole society has taken action.

Schoolwork, electronics to blame? Excessive eye load is the cause

Experts point out that the main factor causing myopia is the close load of the eyes. Studying, reading, playing with electronics and all the other close eye loads are triggers.

"In recent years, school education has more or less stressed the phenomenon of intellectual education, light sports, children close learning time is too long, learning intensity and frequency is too large, coupled with poor daily eye habits, leading to early myopia, high incidence." Said Li Jiawei, deputy director of the Guiyang Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Reporters interviewed in Beijing learned that although some primary schools finish school at 3:30 in the afternoon, homework and interest classes still occupy most of the children's time, no time to exercise, no place to exercise seems to have become a common phenomenon.

And physical activity, a primary vision intervention, has remained inadequate in some places for many years. In addition to small venues and high teaching pressure, worrying about students' safety seems to be a "straitjacket" that schools cannot get rid of.

In addition, in recent years, the popularity of electronic products has become an "accomplice" of myopia. But there are also some cases that show that the same use of electronic products, some countries myopia rate is not so prominent than our country.