Nutrition improvement plans to benefit from 350 million students

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 30 (Reporter Hu Hao) The Ministry of Education held a press conference on the 30th that the nutritional improvement plan implemented by my country has covered 123,800 rural compulsory education schools, and the beneficiary students have reached 350 million.

Guo Peng, director of the Finance Department of the Ministry of Education, said that in the past ten years, my country has built a system of funding for students with Chinese characteristics, which not only ensures that students with financial difficulties in the family have learned at ease, but also improved their living standards and enhanced their physical fitness.

"According to the monitoring data of the China Centers for Disease Control in 2021, the average height of men and girls in the implementation of nutritional improvement plans increased by 4.2 cm and 4.1 cm from 2012, respectively." Guo Peng said.

Guo Peng pointed out that in the past ten years, students' funding has insisted on special difficulties such as family students, minimum living security families, special difficulties, orphans, disabled students and other special difficulties as key guarantees. These families get rid of poverty.

"Student funding policies have reduced the economic burden of poverty alleviation people and low -income people, helping students with economic difficulties to successfully complete their studies and achieve high -quality employment, and laid a good foundation for blocking the intergenerational transmission of poverty." Guo Peng said.

[Editor in charge: Zhou Chuqing]

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