The Ministry of Education issues guiding opinions to comprehensively promote the development of healthy schools

At the beginning of the new semester, the Ministry of Education issued guiding opinions to strengthen physical education, aesthetic education, and labor education in schools, ensuring that primary and secondary school students engage in at least 2 hours of comprehensive physical activities daily, implementing 15-minute breaks between classes, and promoting diverse physical education courses for university students in their third year and above (including graduate students), as well as organizing extracurricular physical exercise; implementing compulsory labor education courses (credits) for students of all ages; enhancing the training and allocation of mental health education teachers, improving the awareness and ability of all teachers, especially primary and secondary school homeroom teachers and university counselors, to identify and effectively address students’ mental health issues; strengthening monitoring of students’ vision health and guiding parents to change the perception of “emphasizing treatment while neglecting prevention”; implementing a plan to prevent and control obesity among primary and secondary school students, enhancing screening for overweight and obesity among students; enforcing the primary responsibility for food safety in schools, with the principal as the first responsible person, and strictly regulating the accompanying meal system for responsible individuals; reinforcing life safety education and popularizing emergency rescue knowledge and skills. (CCTV News)