Chongqing- The health literacy level of Chongqing residents reached 26.41% in 2021, with a year-on-year increase of 3.4 percentage points, according to the press conference on the Healthy China initiative and Chongqing actions on March 29.
The Healthy China initiative is a national strategy focusing on disease prevention and health promotion. It covers major health concerns in society, including psychological health, student myopia, child obesity, and cancer.
The press conference about Chongqing's actions of Healthy China was held on March 29. (iChongqing/ Chen Zhan)
Chongqing actions
Regarding the Healthy China initiative implementation in Chongqing, Wang Wei, Deputy Director of the Chongqing Municipal Health Commission, gave a detailed interpretation of Chongqing's actions in 2021.
The first is to strengthen health intervention and health science to the public, emphasizing current issues, including reasonable diet, national fitness, tobacco control, and mental health.
Remarkable results have also been achieved in protecting key demographic groups such as mothers and children, primary and secondary school students, workers, and major disease control.
In 2020, the city's cancer incidence rate increased by 0.71%, while the mortality rate decreased by 6.39% year on year.
Moreover, the standard management rate of diabetes reached 65.55% in 2021, exceeding the national standard by 5.55 percentage points.
Education system
The Chongqing Municipal Education Commission attaches great importance to the healthy growth of children and adolescents, said a related official.
As health education is a fundamental need to improve students' health literacy and healthy growth, the Municipal Education Commission expands related resources bases and quality classes demonstrations.
Equally importantly, school physical education is a significant means to promote students' physical and mental health.
The municipal education commission deepened sports reform on campus to ensure students' outdoor physical activity time.
Children are skating on the ice rink. (iChongqing file photo)
In 2020, more than 4.2 million students took the national student physical fitness standards testing.
The physical health attainment rate of students in primary and secondary schools reached 95.53%, and the excellent rate was 38.95%.
Sports facilities
The Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Sports provides abundant health services to the citizens by building ten intelligent fitness corridors along the rivers, ten township fitness squares, and 100 sports projects in rural areas.
A total of 11 million yuan has been invested in 55 towns to establish the equipment for national fitness facilities. In addition, 69 public stadiums in the city open for free or at low fees with the extended opening hours.
Aiming to build itself as an outdoor sports destination, Chongqing carried out 100 sports events and activities for the people's well-being.
In addition to the traditional sports, a wide variety of activities are also be allowed, like street dance, Go, and others.