Re: nutrition meal plan has been implemented for 5 years: nearly half of the rural schools are not up to standard.
"Sunshine School data platform" monitored 1 million 920 thousand students in 62 counties. From 2012 to 2016, there was no significant difference in height for newly enrolled students at 7 years old, while the average height of 8 year old students aged 8 years old benefited from the student nutrition improvement program, especially for children who had eaten school meals for three or four years. The average age of children aged 11 and ~15 is 5 centimeters long.
"we were surprised when the data came out." "They get a little bit of rain and moisture and thrive," said Lu Mai, vice-chairman and Secretary General of the China Development Research Foundation. Because of the nutrition improvement plan, the nutritional status and growth of students in poor areas are undergoing historic changes.
monitoring also found that the rate of malnutrition of students in these schools has fallen from 18.5% in 2012 to 15.4% in 2016, but still higher than the average level of malnutrition 12% for children aged 6 years old in 2012. The average height of men and women aged 15 years in poor areas is significantly smaller than that of children of the same age in the country, but they are still 3.7 and 3.6 centimeters respectively.
also shows that we need to continue efforts to completely change the malnutrition of rural students in poverty-stricken areas.
"we must realize that there is still a big gap in our work." Zheng Fuzhi said that the next step of the student nutrition improvement program will be to expand the scope, by the fall of 2017, to be fully covered in the state's key counties for poverty alleviation and development, and to strengthen supervision and assessment, and to "make sure that every meal is safe to eat, and every penny can be eaten in the mouth of the student."
China's student nutrition improvement program has also attracted the attention of the international community. In 2012, the joint inspection group of the world bank, the United Nations, the World Food Programme and the partnership for children's development (WFP) was evaluated by the joint inspection group. The plan was a great plan, with a large population and a good quality, which was rare.
China Development Research Foundation recommends that our country accelerate the nutrition legislation of students, lay the foundation for the stable operation of the policy, and make clear regulations on the standard of school meal, the responsibility of capital contribution, the system of accountability, and the information disclosure.
at the seminar, Lumai said that they studied the 20 counties in the pre - Evaluation of the implementation plan and found that "the implementation is good, the key is the leadership." A proposal for this is to incorporate the improvement of child nutrition into the national economic and social development plan, incorporate the strategy of poverty alleviation and development, and integrate the effectiveness of the nutrition improvement plan and the benefits of the poor families into the overall deployment of the poverty alleviation and development work and carry out assessment.
Lu Mai said, the student nutrition improvement program is the livelihood project, the people's heart project, but it is not "face project", there is no "responsibility" constraint, in the performance appraisal does not have the "one vote veto" effect, it tests the officials for the people to serve the consciousness and a little vision. "We call on all county Party Secretaries and county heads of all the pilot counties of the nutrition improvement plan to go to rural schools to accompany meals to understand the implementation of the nutrition improvement plan." At the
seminar site, the organizers invited several children from remote areas of Guizhou and Ningxia to take the stage to give awards to the top county governments. Lu Mai said, this represents the children's gratitude, also represents their expectations for the future.
a child named Li Qiang said that when he was in primary school, he had no lunch in his school. He had to send dinner to his father to school, and he had no meal in several times. He was hungry and cried. Sometimes he was "hungry to class." When I was in grade three, one morning, every student in the class was given an egg, and then there was a nutritious lunch. He thinks he is physically stronger than before, and he seldom gets sick. "I think it may have a lot to do with my eating well." He said: "I will study hard and continue to work hard to repay the motherland and society."