The Ministry of Education issues guidance to comprehensively promote the construction of healthy schools

2026-02-27 15:11

Economic Observation Network The Ministry of Education has issued guidance to strengthen physical education, aesthetic education, and labor education in schools, implement a daily comprehensive physical activity time of no less than 2 hours for primary and secondary school students, promote a 15 minute break between classes, and encourage universities to offer various forms of physical education courses for third grade and above students (including graduate students), and organize extracurricular physical exercise; Implement the requirements for compulsory courses (credits) in labor education for primary, secondary, and tertiary students; Strengthen the training and allocation of teachers for mental health education, and enhance the awareness and ability of all teachers, especially primary and secondary school class teachers and university counselors, to discover and effectively deal with students' mental health problems; Strengthen monitoring of students' visual health and guide parents to change their mindset of prioritizing treatment over prevention; Implement the obesity prevention and control work plan for primary and secondary school students, and strengthen the screening of overweight and obesity among students; Implement the main responsibility for school food safety and the principal's first person of responsibility, strictly regulate and implement the system of accompanying meals for relevant responsible persons; Strengthen life safety education and popularize emergency rescue knowledge and skills.

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