The most clear in the world is the eyes of children.

At the NPC and CPPCC sessions, Fan Xianqun, a deputy to the National People's Congress and dean of the School of Medicine at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, submitted a proposal on the Internet era should keep pace with The Times and pay more attention to the eye health of children and adolescents.

Why is the dean of the medical school so concerned about adolescent eye health?

Behind this, both the environment of adverse incentives increased, and involves all aspects. Protecting the children's eyesight is not only the responsibility of the family, but also needs the participation of the society to form a joint force.

As soon as the proposal was put forward, it was immediately seconded by many committee deputies. During the discussion, everyone suggested that the prevention and control of adolescent myopia must form a system, from the construction of refractive "one person one gear" dynamic monitoring, diagnosis and treatment of myopia control to ensure the duration of outdoor exercise, health, education, sports and other departments should deeply integrate and consolidate their respective responsibilities. It is expected that with the promotion of various research, myopia prevention and control can be included in students' physical assessment as a mandatory indicator, so as to protect the healthy future of children.

Heavy treatment and light prevention, leading to missing the "intervention window period"

With the deep popularity of the Internet, the age of children and teenagers first accessing the Internet is getting younger and younger.

According to a survey by the National Health Commission, the overall myopia rate of children and adolescents in China was 52.7 percent in 2020, up 2.5 percentage points from 2019. This means that, on average, at least one person in two children and adolescents has myopia.

This has sounded the alarm for the prevention and treatment of adolescent eye health."Without early intervention, there may be no more young people with 'pilot vision' in the future.”

Fan Xianqun believes that the eye health problem of children and adolescents has been very urgent and need to face up to. Fan Xianqun, wearing a white lab coat for more than 30 years, spoke with his actions. Last year, he led his team to conduct a sample survey of Shanghai, Shandong, Tianjin, Liaoning and Guangdong provinces for nearly 50,000 parents, students and teachers in children and adolescents.

According to the team analysis, there are many causes of eye health problems, including heavy eye load, lack of outdoor activities, lack of sleep, bad eye habits, etc. In the past two years, affected by the epidemic, changes in learning methods such as online courses have also laid hidden dangers for the visual health of teenagers.

According to the survey data, 60 percent of high school students spend their eyes for more than two hours after class every day, nearly 30 percent of primary and middle school students and 50 percent of high school students use computers, mobile phones, tablets and TVs for more than one hour after class every day.

The eye fatigue of excessive accumulation of close use of eyes exacerbates the high incidence of eye problems in children and adolescents. The existence of the concept of heavy treatment and light prevention makes many teenagers miss the window period of prevention and treatment, resulting in the irreversible development of the course of disease. In the survey, 87 percent of parents surveyed said they would only go to eye exams if they found abnormal eyesight.

Break down the data chimney and accelerate the dynamic eye health monitoring

The protection barrier of myopia needs to be moved forward, and various localities have explored the integration of eye health of children and adolescents into public health services. However, many primary medical workers give feedback from the practice that eye health management is still subject to the two bottlenecks of resources and data.

From the resource side, the conditions are different. Some primary medical institutions and schools have insufficient inspection equipment