Regulations of Jiangsu Province on the Promotion of Students’Physical Health
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Announcement of the Standing Committee of the Eleventh People’s Congress of Jiangsu Province
No.27
The Regulations of Jiangsu Province on the Promotion of Students’ Physical Health, adopted at the Tenth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eleventh People’s Congress of Jiangsu Province on July 29, 2009, are hereby promulgated and shall enter into effect as of September 1, 2009.
July 29, 2009
Regulations of Jiangsu Province on the Promotion of Students’ Physical Health
(Adopted at the Tenth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eleventh People’s Congress of Jiangsu Province on July 29, 2009)
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are enacted in accordance with the Education Law of the People’s Republic of China and other relevant laws and administrative regulations, in light of specific situations of this Province and for the purpose of building up the students’ physique and promoting their healthy growth.
Article 2 The term“students” as used in these Regulations refers to the citizens who receive full-time education at primary schools ,junior middle schools, senior middle schools, secondary vocational schools and institutions of higher learning(including higher vocational schools).
The term“physical health” as used in these Regulations refers to the overall good condition of the physical shape, physiological function, athletic ability and adaptability to natural and social environments of a person based on his innate and acquired abilities.
Article 3 The local people’s governments at various levels shall strengthen their leadership over the work of promoting students’ physical health, incorporate the students’ physical health promotion work into the national economy and social development planning, organize and mobilize social sectors to do a good job in promoting students’ physical health together.
Article 4 The education administrative department of a local people’s government at or above the county level (hereinafter referred to as the education administrative department) shall be in charge of the students’ physical health promotion work within its administrative region.
The administrative departments such as physical culture and sports, public health, finance, institutional organization, culture, public security and human resources and social security shall, in light of their respective functions and duties, do well their work in students’ physical health promotion.
Schools, families and the society shall take various measures to do well their work in students’ physical health promotion.
Article 5 Any individual or organization that has made remarkable achievements in promoting students’ physical health shall be commended or awarded by the local people’s government at or above the county level and the relevant departments
Chapter II Sports Activities
Article 6 The local people’s governments at various levels shall make an overall planning on the construction of public sports facilities and school sports facilities.
The local people’s governments at various levels shall strengthen the construction of public sports facilities and, according to the criteria provided in the state or local regulations, set up sports fields and equipped them with sports equipment and apparatus.
School sponsors shall, according to the criteria provided in the state or local regulations, construct sports fields for the school and equipped them with sports equipment and apparatus. The school shall formulate management and maintenance rules for sports fields, equipment and apparatus, and designate a person to take charge of their management.
Schools may not use sports fields for other purposes. No unit or individual may occupy or damage school sports fields, equipment or apparatus.
Article 7 Public stadiums, gymnasiums and sports facilities shall be open to schools and students for free or on preferential basis. School stadiums and gymnasiums shall be open to students for free or on preferential basis after school, on national holidays, at weekends or in summer and winter vacations.
Article 8 The local people’s government at or above the county level shall regularly host comprehensive or special students’ sports games.
Schools shall host a sports meet every year and organize students’ sports activities by class frequently.
Article 9 Schools shall, according to the need for physical education classes and after-class sports activities, be manned with dedicated physical education teachers within the rated numbers set forth for this position. The physical education class shall be led by a full time physical education teacher.
Where a physical education teacher organize activities such as morning exercises, gymnastic exercise, after-class sports activities, athletic training for sports teams and sports competitions, such work shall be included into his teaching workload.
Article 10 A school shall, according to the relevant provisions of the State and this Province, incorporate physical education classes and after-class sports activities into the teaching plan of the school, and may not reduce the hours for physical education classes or use the time for other purposes.
Physical education classes and after-class sports activities shall be aimed at improving the students’ body constitution and giving them more fitness exercises with priorities given to out-door activities.
Article 11 Schools shall conduct physical education teaching activities in accordance with physical and psychological characteristics of students of different ages; sport varieties and exercise intensity shall be commensurate with the physiological tolerance and physical health status of the students to ensure that suitable exercise load is given to them and the sports activities are safe and effective.
Schools shall, according to the conditions of the handicapped and physically-weak students, organize special fitness and rehabilitation exercises for them.
Article 12 Schools shall focus on developing students’ interest and forte in sports activities, making each student master two or more sports skills.
Schools shall be encouraged to carry out sports activities with traditional ethnic and local features. Schools and other organizations shall be encouraged to establish sports clubs and outdoor sports camps for the youth.
Article 13 Primary schools, junior middle schools, senior middle schools and secondary vocational schools (hereinafter referred to as primary and middle schools) shall ensure that their students shall spend not less than one hour on sports activities every day at school and institutions of higher learning (including higher vocational schools) shall ensure that their students shall participate in after-class physical training at least three times a week.
Primary and middle schools shall implement a system of physical activities during a long-break between classes. A break of not less than 25 minutes shall be arranged every morning for physical activities.
Primary and middle boarding schools shall organize boarders to do morning exercises every day.
Schools shall conscientiously implement national physical education standards, guarantee the qualities of physical activities and ensure sufficient physical activity time for each student.
Article 14 Senior middle schools, secondary vocational schools and institutions of higher learning (including higher vocational schools) shall organize students to carry out military training activities in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State.
The educational administrative departments, the military organ stationed in the locality and the school shall, in accordance with the physiological and psychological characteristics of students, rationally arrange time, subjects and intensity of the military training for the students and take effective safety measures to ensure personal safety of the students.
Article 15 A physical education test shall be given when a student graduates from a junior middle school for further education. The score of the PE test shall be carried into the total scores of the student with the percentage that the PE test scores shall account for not less than 5% of the total scores.
Article 16 Schools shall organize students to test their fitness and health in accordance with the National Standards on Students’ Physical Health to ensure the authenticity and accuracy of testing results
Only those students whose testing results on fitness and health have reached the level of “good” or “excellent” are allowed to participate in the selection of morally, academically and physically good students .
Article 17 Schools shall strengthen safety education among students and enhance their awareness and ability of self-protection.
Schools shall implement safety measures when organizing physical training and test for students.
The schools shall establish a mechanism for rapid response to the personal injuries happening to the students and formulate a well-prepared contingency plan to prevent group security incidents.
Primary and middle schools shall cover school liability insurance against personal injuries to students. Parents or other guardians of students are encouraged to insure the students against accidental injuries.
Chapter III Hygiene and Nutrition
Article 18 The local governments at various levels shall put the students under the coverage of the basic medical insurance for urban residents or the new-type rural cooperative medical care insurance.
Article 19 The administrative departments such as public health, education, human resources and social security shall jointly strengthen their monitoring on nutritional status of students, establish and improve a mechanism for intervention on the students’ nutrition.
The organs for disease control and prevention and the relevant medical institutions shall designate persons to guide the school health work, provide public health services such as disease prevention and health care, regularly carry out supervision and monitoring on the food and drinking water hygiene and epidemic diseases control and prevention, and vaccinate and inoculate the students according to law for them to produce immunity; all the expenses needed shall be included in the public health fund.
Article 20 Schools shall incorporate the health education in their teaching plan. Primary and middle schools shall offer a health education course and institutions of higher learning (including higher vocational schools) shall offer a health education course as an optional course or offer lectures on this regard, actively carry out health care education such as disease prevention, scientific nutrition, hygienic safety, anti-drug , anti-smoking, and anti-alcohol education, grant health care knowledge to the students, and help them to grow a good habit on behaviors and health care.
Article 21 Boarding schools shall establish a clinic which shall obtain the Practice License of Medical Institution.
Non-boarding schools shall have medical professionals or health care teachers according to the relevant provisions.
Schools and health and medical institutions are encouraged to join their efforts to do well their work on controlling and preventing certain diseases and personal injuries among students.
Article 22 The school shall organize medical professionals or health care teachers to do well the following work:
(1) formulating the health care working plan for the school and its implementation plans;
(2) creating health records for students and taking charge of students’ health care management;
(3) giving health care education, carrying out publicity on health care actively and helping students to grow a good habit on behaviors and health care;
(4) regularly conducting sanitation checks on public places such as classrooms, dorms and reading-rooms and making efforts to prevent the outbreak of diseases such as common diseases, frequently-occurring diseases, endemic diseases and infectious diseases among students;
(5) assisting in the vaccination and inoculation work performed for students;
(6) improving the sanitation and hygiene in school environment, food and teaching and health care in physical education and labor work;
(7) conducting primary health care and first aid;
(8) organizing and guiding student medics and young members of the Red Cross Society to carry out their work;
(8) working in coordination with the relevant departments to carry out safety and health care supervision over various prevention, medical treatment, health care activities of the school.
Article 23 Schools shall do well the work of prevention and control of public health emergencies such as outbreak of infectious diseases and establish and improve an emergency reporting and response mechanism correspondently.
Article 24 The construction quality of the teaching buildings of the school, the ambient noise level, the overall conditions of the classrooms and dorms such as the mini-climate, natural lighting, ventilation and illumination, and the setting-up of recreational and sports equipment and desks and chairs shall be in line with the relevant standards of the State .
Article 25 Primary and middle schools shall teach the students the knowledge and the approach of scientific use of eyes and organize them to do eye exercises twice every day.
Primary and middle schools shall conduct monitoring on students’ eyesight twice every semester, rectify incorrect reading and writing gestures of students in a timely manner, limit the time of using eyes at close reading and improve lighting conditions to prevent the decline of students’ eyesight.
Article 26 Primary and middle schools shall limit the time of students studying at school together, reduce students’ schoolwork burden and ensure their necessary sleep.
Students in primary schools shall not stay at school studying together more than six hours each day; students in junior middle schools not more than seven hours each day; students in senior middle schools not more than eight hours each day.
No written homework may be assigned for students of grades one and two in primary schools and total time spent on written homework by other primary school students shall be controlled within one hour every day; total time spent on written homework by junior middle school students shall be controlled within one hour and a half every day; total time spent on written homework for senior middle school students shall be controlled within two hours.
Article 27 The establishment and equipment for school canteens shall be in line with the national standards.
Schools shall implement laws and regulations on food safety, establish a management system on food safety and hygiene and designate special persons to be in charge of the hygiene and safety of school canteen. School canteen employees shall undergo medical examination every year and only those who have obtained a health certificate may be employed to work in the school canteen.
Article 28 Schools and families shall provide students with nutritional meals and ensure their balanced intake of nutrition to promote their healthy growth.
The relevant departments and organizations shall strengthen research into and publicity of nutritional knowledge for students and guide schools and parents to provide students with a scientific, balanced and nutritional diet.
Article 29 Schools shall establish and improve a medical examination system for students’ health and organize students to undergo medical examination once a year. The education administrative department and the school shall select a medical institution which meeting the relevant requirements to conduct the medical examination for the students.
The medical institution which undertakes students’ medical examinations shall, after the examination is completed, make evaluation on the health status of individual student and all students as a whole, report the evaluation results of an individual student and all students to the students (parents), the school and the education administrative department and bring forth proposal on how to improve the health conditions of the students or whether or not to take further medical examinations.
Schools shall create a physical health record for each student and shall promptly inform parents of any problem found in a student’ medical examination and cooperate with the parents to take corresponding interventions or prevention and treatment measures.
Fees of medical examinations for students receiving compulsory education shall be included in the guaranteed fund for compulsory education; fees of medical examinations for senior middle school students shall be covered by the government finance; fees of medical examinations for other students receiving non-compulsory education shall be arranged rationally by the school in accordance with the prescribed standards. Medical examination items, charge standards and guarantee measures shall be jointly formulated by the provincial administrative departments in charge of education, human resources and social security, finance, pricing and public health.
Article 30 Schools shall, in cooperation with parents and the society, offer students education on psychological health, and give them psychological counseling and guidance in accordance with the characteristics of their physical and psychological development and give timely and necessary care and guidance to those who deviate in their behavior or who are psychologically retarded so that the students can have a healthy physical and psychological development.
Chapter IV Guarantee and Supervision
Article 31 The local people’s government at or above the county level shall establish a joint conference system for the promotion of students’ physical health, participated in by the administrative departments such as education, human resources and social security, physical culture and sports, institutional organization as well as the Communist Youth League and the women’s federation to coordinate the students physical health promotion work within its administrative region. .
Article 32 The local governments at various levels and their education administrative departments shall evaluate schools’ education quality in a correct manner and take the physical health status of students as an important basis in evaluating the work performance of the localities and the schools. The local authorities and schools of the places where students physical health continue to decline in two consecutive years shall not be accredited as “good” or “advanced” units.
The local governments at various levels and their education administrative departments shall not make targets on students’ enrollment into a school of higher grade for any school to attain and shall not rank schools based on the promotion rate or testing scores so as to create favorable conditions for schools to implement competence-oriented education and students to grow in a much healthier way.
Article 33 The local governments at various levels shall incorporate the fund needed for the promotion of students’ physical health into the fiscal budget and increase investment in sports facilities for primary and middle schools to ensure an effective unfolding of the work for promotion of students’ physical health.
Article 34 The education administrative departments shall, in conjunction with the relevant departments, establish a monitoring and early warning system for students’ physical health, conduct a monitoring on students’ physical health status once every two years and release the monitoring results to the public.
The administrative departments of education and human resources and social security shall, in conjunction with the administrative departments of physical culture and sports and public health respectively, promote the physical fitness testing report and publicity systems and the system of fitness testing on new students according to the National Standards on Students’ Physical Health so as to strengthen supervision and inspection on the students physical health promotion work.
The education administrative department shall designate special organs and persons to take charge of the students’ physical health promotion work.
Article 35 The administrative department for physical culture and sports shall, in conjunction with the education administrative department, formulate and implement a planning for developing the work of physical culture and sports in communities for young people, the plans for relevant activities and a work program on opening public sports facilities to students to guide the schools to carry out various students’ physical training and sports competitions and impose supervision thereon.
Article 36 The administrative department of public health shall establish an inspection system on school hygiene and strengthen guidance on and supervision over the public health matters such as study, life, labor and food hygiene inside the school which affect students’ health and prevention and control of infectious diseases.
The administration department for food safety and supervision shall strengthen supervision over and management of school canteens, businesses providing food and beverage and individual vendors around the school and catering enterprises providing services for the school so as to ensure food hygiene and safety for students.
Article 37 The public security organ shall strengthen administration on the public security around the school and its neighborhood, prevent and investigate into illegal and criminal acts endangering students’ physical health in a timely manner and safeguard personal security of students according to law.
Article 38 The Communist Youth League, the women’s federations and the trade unions shall assist the government and its relevant departments in doing well the students’ physical health promotion work.
Youth activity centers, children’s palaces and centers for women and children shall take it as their main work to organize the young people to carry out various sports activities.
Article 39 News media shall publicize and report students’ sports activities and advanced models and successful experience in the students’ physical health promotion work, guiding the whole society to establish scientific outlook on education, competent people and health.
Article 40 Parents shall communicate with schools frequently, pay attention to the physiological and psychological changes occurring to their children during different ages, impart scientific physiological knowledge and knowledge on healthy life to their children and guide them to participate in such wholesome activities as housework and public events.
Parents shall help their children to develop good habits on physical exercises, healthy eating habits and culturally advanced and healthy lifestyles, ensure sufficient nutrition and sleep for them, avoid increasing schoolwork for their children and assist schools in doing well their job to promote the students’ physical health.
Communities are encouraged to carry out health education and sports activities related to students to promote parents and their children to participate in sports activities.
Article 41 Fulltime physical education teachers and medical professionals of a school shall enjoy the same benefits as other teachers of the schools in aspects such as allowance for class hours, further education, assessment of professional title and performance appraisal.
Chapter V Legal Liabilities
Article 42 Where a school commits any of the following acts in violation of the provisions of these Regulations, the administrative departments of education, public health and human resources and social security shall order it to make correction; where it refuses to make such correction, the person directly in charge and the other person directly responsible of the school shall be given administrative sanctions according to law:
(1) reducing or occupying physical education hours for other purposes
(2) failing to ensure the one hour sports time at school for primary and middle school students;
(3) failing to organize students to take medical examinations or to conduct monitoring on their eyesight status;
(4) arranging extra hours in excess of the time limit prescribed for primary and middle school students to study together at school each day;
(5) leaving written homework more than the load allowed for primary and middle school students;
(6) failing to hold sports meets;
(7) failing to implement relevant preventive and control measures and causing the spread of infectious diseases or the outbreak of food poisoning accidents;
(8) failing to organize students to have a test in accordance with the National Standards on Students’ Physical Health or falsifying data on the test results.
Article 43 Any one who fails to open the public sports venue or sports facility to schools or students for free or on preferential basis shall be ordered by the administrative department of physical culture and sports to make corrections.
The school which fails to open the stadium or gymnasium of the school to the students for free or on preferential basis after class, on national holidays, at weekends or in winter and summer vacations shall be ordered by the administrative department of physical culture and sports to make corrections.
Article 44 Where an administrative department, in violation of the provisions in these Regulations, commits any one of the following acts, the person directly in charge and the other person directly responsible shall be given administrative sanctions according to law:
(1) making targets on the students’ enrollment into other schools of higher grade for schools to attain;
(2) ranking schools on the promotion rates or testing scores of the schools;
(3) failing to release the results on monitoring of the physical health status of the students within its administrative region;
(4) committing other acts in violation of these Regulations.
Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions
Article 45 These Regulations shall enter into effect as of September 1, 2009.
No.27
The Regulations of Jiangsu Province on the Promotion of Students’ Physical Health, adopted at the Tenth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eleventh People’s Congress of Jiangsu Province on July 29, 2009, are hereby promulgated and shall enter into effect as of September 1, 2009.
July 29, 2009
Regulations of Jiangsu Province on the Promotion of Students’ Physical Health
(Adopted at the Tenth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eleventh People’s Congress of Jiangsu Province on July 29, 2009)
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are enacted in accordance with the Education Law of the People’s Republic of China and other relevant laws and administrative regulations, in light of specific situations of this Province and for the purpose of building up the students’ physique and promoting their healthy growth.
Article 2 The term“students” as used in these Regulations refers to the citizens who receive full-time education at primary schools ,junior middle schools, senior middle schools, secondary vocational schools and institutions of higher learning(including higher vocational schools).
The term“physical health” as used in these Regulations refers to the overall good condition of the physical shape, physiological function, athletic ability and adaptability to natural and social environments of a person based on his innate and acquired abilities.
Article 3 The local people’s governments at various levels shall strengthen their leadership over the work of promoting students’ physical health, incorporate the students’ physical health promotion work into the national economy and social development planning, organize and mobilize social sectors to do a good job in promoting students’ physical health together.
Article 4 The education administrative department of a local people’s government at or above the county level (hereinafter referred to as the education administrative department) shall be in charge of the students’ physical health promotion work within its administrative region.
The administrative departments such as physical culture and sports, public health, finance, institutional organization, culture, public security and human resources and social security shall, in light of their respective functions and duties, do well their work in students’ physical health promotion.
Schools, families and the society shall take various measures to do well their work in students’ physical health promotion.
Article 5 Any individual or organization that has made remarkable achievements in promoting students’ physical health shall be commended or awarded by the local people’s government at or above the county level and the relevant departments
Chapter II Sports Activities
Article 6 The local people’s governments at various levels shall make an overall planning on the construction of public sports facilities and school sports facilities.
The local people’s governments at various levels shall strengthen the construction of public sports facilities and, according to the criteria provided in the state or local regulations, set up sports fields and equipped them with sports equipment and apparatus.
School sponsors shall, according to the criteria provided in the state or local regulations, construct sports fields for the school and equipped them with sports equipment and apparatus. The school shall formulate management and maintenance rules for sports fields, equipment and apparatus, and designate a person to take charge of their management.
Schools may not use sports fields for other purposes. No unit or individual may occupy or damage school sports fields, equipment or apparatus.
Article 7 Public stadiums, gymnasiums and sports facilities shall be open to schools and students for free or on preferential basis. School stadiums and gymnasiums shall be open to students for free or on preferential basis after school, on national holidays, at weekends or in summer and winter vacations.
Article 8 The local people’s government at or above the county level shall regularly host comprehensive or special students’ sports games.
Schools shall host a sports meet every year and organize students’ sports activities by class frequently.
Article 9 Schools shall, according to the need for physical education classes and after-class sports activities, be manned with dedicated physical education teachers within the rated numbers set forth for this position. The physical education class shall be led by a full time physical education teacher.
Where a physical education teacher organize activities such as morning exercises, gymnastic exercise, after-class sports activities, athletic training for sports teams and sports competitions, such work shall be included into his teaching workload.
Article 10 A school shall, according to the relevant provisions of the State and this Province, incorporate physical education classes and after-class sports activities into the teaching plan of the school, and may not reduce the hours for physical education classes or use the time for other purposes.
Physical education classes and after-class sports activities shall be aimed at improving the students’ body constitution and giving them more fitness exercises with priorities given to out-door activities.
Article 11 Schools shall conduct physical education teaching activities in accordance with physical and psychological characteristics of students of different ages; sport varieties and exercise intensity shall be commensurate with the physiological tolerance and physical health status of the students to ensure that suitable exercise load is given to them and the sports activities are safe and effective.
Schools shall, according to the conditions of the handicapped and physically-weak students, organize special fitness and rehabilitation exercises for them.
Article 12 Schools shall focus on developing students’ interest and forte in sports activities, making each student master two or more sports skills.
Schools shall be encouraged to carry out sports activities with traditional ethnic and local features. Schools and other organizations shall be encouraged to establish sports clubs and outdoor sports camps for the youth.
Article 13 Primary schools, junior middle schools, senior middle schools and secondary vocational schools (hereinafter referred to as primary and middle schools) shall ensure that their students shall spend not less than one hour on sports activities every day at school and institutions of higher learning (including higher vocational schools) shall ensure that their students shall participate in after-class physical training at least three times a week.
Primary and middle schools shall implement a system of physical activities during a long-break between classes. A break of not less than 25 minutes shall be arranged every morning for physical activities.
Primary and middle boarding schools shall organize boarders to do morning exercises every day.
Schools shall conscientiously implement national physical education standards, guarantee the qualities of physical activities and ensure sufficient physical activity time for each student.
Article 14 Senior middle schools, secondary vocational schools and institutions of higher learning (including higher vocational schools) shall organize students to carry out military training activities in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State.
The educational administrative departments, the military organ stationed in the locality and the school shall, in accordance with the physiological and psychological characteristics of students, rationally arrange time, subjects and intensity of the military training for the students and take effective safety measures to ensure personal safety of the students.
Article 15 A physical education test shall be given when a student graduates from a junior middle school for further education. The score of the PE test shall be carried into the total scores of the student with the percentage that the PE test scores shall account for not less than 5% of the total scores.
Article 16 Schools shall organize students to test their fitness and health in accordance with the National Standards on Students’ Physical Health to ensure the authenticity and accuracy of testing results
Only those students whose testing results on fitness and health have reached the level of “good” or “excellent” are allowed to participate in the selection of morally, academically and physically good students .
Article 17 Schools shall strengthen safety education among students and enhance their awareness and ability of self-protection.
Schools shall implement safety measures when organizing physical training and test for students.
The schools shall establish a mechanism for rapid response to the personal injuries happening to the students and formulate a well-prepared contingency plan to prevent group security incidents.
Primary and middle schools shall cover school liability insurance against personal injuries to students. Parents or other guardians of students are encouraged to insure the students against accidental injuries.
Chapter III Hygiene and Nutrition
Article 18 The local governments at various levels shall put the students under the coverage of the basic medical insurance for urban residents or the new-type rural cooperative medical care insurance.
Article 19 The administrative departments such as public health, education, human resources and social security shall jointly strengthen their monitoring on nutritional status of students, establish and improve a mechanism for intervention on the students’ nutrition.
The organs for disease control and prevention and the relevant medical institutions shall designate persons to guide the school health work, provide public health services such as disease prevention and health care, regularly carry out supervision and monitoring on the food and drinking water hygiene and epidemic diseases control and prevention, and vaccinate and inoculate the students according to law for them to produce immunity; all the expenses needed shall be included in the public health fund.
Article 20 Schools shall incorporate the health education in their teaching plan. Primary and middle schools shall offer a health education course and institutions of higher learning (including higher vocational schools) shall offer a health education course as an optional course or offer lectures on this regard, actively carry out health care education such as disease prevention, scientific nutrition, hygienic safety, anti-drug , anti-smoking, and anti-alcohol education, grant health care knowledge to the students, and help them to grow a good habit on behaviors and health care.
Article 21 Boarding schools shall establish a clinic which shall obtain the Practice License of Medical Institution.
Non-boarding schools shall have medical professionals or health care teachers according to the relevant provisions.
Schools and health and medical institutions are encouraged to join their efforts to do well their work on controlling and preventing certain diseases and personal injuries among students.
Article 22 The school shall organize medical professionals or health care teachers to do well the following work:
(1) formulating the health care working plan for the school and its implementation plans;
(2) creating health records for students and taking charge of students’ health care management;
(3) giving health care education, carrying out publicity on health care actively and helping students to grow a good habit on behaviors and health care;
(4) regularly conducting sanitation checks on public places such as classrooms, dorms and reading-rooms and making efforts to prevent the outbreak of diseases such as common diseases, frequently-occurring diseases, endemic diseases and infectious diseases among students;
(5) assisting in the vaccination and inoculation work performed for students;
(6) improving the sanitation and hygiene in school environment, food and teaching and health care in physical education and labor work;
(7) conducting primary health care and first aid;
(8) organizing and guiding student medics and young members of the Red Cross Society to carry out their work;
(8) working in coordination with the relevant departments to carry out safety and health care supervision over various prevention, medical treatment, health care activities of the school.
Article 23 Schools shall do well the work of prevention and control of public health emergencies such as outbreak of infectious diseases and establish and improve an emergency reporting and response mechanism correspondently.
Article 24 The construction quality of the teaching buildings of the school, the ambient noise level, the overall conditions of the classrooms and dorms such as the mini-climate, natural lighting, ventilation and illumination, and the setting-up of recreational and sports equipment and desks and chairs shall be in line with the relevant standards of the State .
Article 25 Primary and middle schools shall teach the students the knowledge and the approach of scientific use of eyes and organize them to do eye exercises twice every day.
Primary and middle schools shall conduct monitoring on students’ eyesight twice every semester, rectify incorrect reading and writing gestures of students in a timely manner, limit the time of using eyes at close reading and improve lighting conditions to prevent the decline of students’ eyesight.
Article 26 Primary and middle schools shall limit the time of students studying at school together, reduce students’ schoolwork burden and ensure their necessary sleep.
Students in primary schools shall not stay at school studying together more than six hours each day; students in junior middle schools not more than seven hours each day; students in senior middle schools not more than eight hours each day.
No written homework may be assigned for students of grades one and two in primary schools and total time spent on written homework by other primary school students shall be controlled within one hour every day; total time spent on written homework by junior middle school students shall be controlled within one hour and a half every day; total time spent on written homework for senior middle school students shall be controlled within two hours.
Article 27 The establishment and equipment for school canteens shall be in line with the national standards.
Schools shall implement laws and regulations on food safety, establish a management system on food safety and hygiene and designate special persons to be in charge of the hygiene and safety of school canteen. School canteen employees shall undergo medical examination every year and only those who have obtained a health certificate may be employed to work in the school canteen.
Article 28 Schools and families shall provide students with nutritional meals and ensure their balanced intake of nutrition to promote their healthy growth.
The relevant departments and organizations shall strengthen research into and publicity of nutritional knowledge for students and guide schools and parents to provide students with a scientific, balanced and nutritional diet.
Article 29 Schools shall establish and improve a medical examination system for students’ health and organize students to undergo medical examination once a year. The education administrative department and the school shall select a medical institution which meeting the relevant requirements to conduct the medical examination for the students.
The medical institution which undertakes students’ medical examinations shall, after the examination is completed, make evaluation on the health status of individual student and all students as a whole, report the evaluation results of an individual student and all students to the students (parents), the school and the education administrative department and bring forth proposal on how to improve the health conditions of the students or whether or not to take further medical examinations.
Schools shall create a physical health record for each student and shall promptly inform parents of any problem found in a student’ medical examination and cooperate with the parents to take corresponding interventions or prevention and treatment measures.
Fees of medical examinations for students receiving compulsory education shall be included in the guaranteed fund for compulsory education; fees of medical examinations for senior middle school students shall be covered by the government finance; fees of medical examinations for other students receiving non-compulsory education shall be arranged rationally by the school in accordance with the prescribed standards. Medical examination items, charge standards and guarantee measures shall be jointly formulated by the provincial administrative departments in charge of education, human resources and social security, finance, pricing and public health.
Article 30 Schools shall, in cooperation with parents and the society, offer students education on psychological health, and give them psychological counseling and guidance in accordance with the characteristics of their physical and psychological development and give timely and necessary care and guidance to those who deviate in their behavior or who are psychologically retarded so that the students can have a healthy physical and psychological development.
Chapter IV Guarantee and Supervision
Article 31 The local people’s government at or above the county level shall establish a joint conference system for the promotion of students’ physical health, participated in by the administrative departments such as education, human resources and social security, physical culture and sports, institutional organization as well as the Communist Youth League and the women’s federation to coordinate the students physical health promotion work within its administrative region. .
Article 32 The local governments at various levels and their education administrative departments shall evaluate schools’ education quality in a correct manner and take the physical health status of students as an important basis in evaluating the work performance of the localities and the schools. The local authorities and schools of the places where students physical health continue to decline in two consecutive years shall not be accredited as “good” or “advanced” units.
The local governments at various levels and their education administrative departments shall not make targets on students’ enrollment into a school of higher grade for any school to attain and shall not rank schools based on the promotion rate or testing scores so as to create favorable conditions for schools to implement competence-oriented education and students to grow in a much healthier way.
Article 33 The local governments at various levels shall incorporate the fund needed for the promotion of students’ physical health into the fiscal budget and increase investment in sports facilities for primary and middle schools to ensure an effective unfolding of the work for promotion of students’ physical health.
Article 34 The education administrative departments shall, in conjunction with the relevant departments, establish a monitoring and early warning system for students’ physical health, conduct a monitoring on students’ physical health status once every two years and release the monitoring results to the public.
The administrative departments of education and human resources and social security shall, in conjunction with the administrative departments of physical culture and sports and public health respectively, promote the physical fitness testing report and publicity systems and the system of fitness testing on new students according to the National Standards on Students’ Physical Health so as to strengthen supervision and inspection on the students physical health promotion work.
The education administrative department shall designate special organs and persons to take charge of the students’ physical health promotion work.
Article 35 The administrative department for physical culture and sports shall, in conjunction with the education administrative department, formulate and implement a planning for developing the work of physical culture and sports in communities for young people, the plans for relevant activities and a work program on opening public sports facilities to students to guide the schools to carry out various students’ physical training and sports competitions and impose supervision thereon.
Article 36 The administrative department of public health shall establish an inspection system on school hygiene and strengthen guidance on and supervision over the public health matters such as study, life, labor and food hygiene inside the school which affect students’ health and prevention and control of infectious diseases.
The administration department for food safety and supervision shall strengthen supervision over and management of school canteens, businesses providing food and beverage and individual vendors around the school and catering enterprises providing services for the school so as to ensure food hygiene and safety for students.
Article 37 The public security organ shall strengthen administration on the public security around the school and its neighborhood, prevent and investigate into illegal and criminal acts endangering students’ physical health in a timely manner and safeguard personal security of students according to law.
Article 38 The Communist Youth League, the women’s federations and the trade unions shall assist the government and its relevant departments in doing well the students’ physical health promotion work.
Youth activity centers, children’s palaces and centers for women and children shall take it as their main work to organize the young people to carry out various sports activities.
Article 39 News media shall publicize and report students’ sports activities and advanced models and successful experience in the students’ physical health promotion work, guiding the whole society to establish scientific outlook on education, competent people and health.
Article 40 Parents shall communicate with schools frequently, pay attention to the physiological and psychological changes occurring to their children during different ages, impart scientific physiological knowledge and knowledge on healthy life to their children and guide them to participate in such wholesome activities as housework and public events.
Parents shall help their children to develop good habits on physical exercises, healthy eating habits and culturally advanced and healthy lifestyles, ensure sufficient nutrition and sleep for them, avoid increasing schoolwork for their children and assist schools in doing well their job to promote the students’ physical health.
Communities are encouraged to carry out health education and sports activities related to students to promote parents and their children to participate in sports activities.
Article 41 Fulltime physical education teachers and medical professionals of a school shall enjoy the same benefits as other teachers of the schools in aspects such as allowance for class hours, further education, assessment of professional title and performance appraisal.
Chapter V Legal Liabilities
Article 42 Where a school commits any of the following acts in violation of the provisions of these Regulations, the administrative departments of education, public health and human resources and social security shall order it to make correction; where it refuses to make such correction, the person directly in charge and the other person directly responsible of the school shall be given administrative sanctions according to law:
(1) reducing or occupying physical education hours for other purposes
(2) failing to ensure the one hour sports time at school for primary and middle school students;
(3) failing to organize students to take medical examinations or to conduct monitoring on their eyesight status;
(4) arranging extra hours in excess of the time limit prescribed for primary and middle school students to study together at school each day;
(5) leaving written homework more than the load allowed for primary and middle school students;
(6) failing to hold sports meets;
(7) failing to implement relevant preventive and control measures and causing the spread of infectious diseases or the outbreak of food poisoning accidents;
(8) failing to organize students to have a test in accordance with the National Standards on Students’ Physical Health or falsifying data on the test results.
Article 43 Any one who fails to open the public sports venue or sports facility to schools or students for free or on preferential basis shall be ordered by the administrative department of physical culture and sports to make corrections.
The school which fails to open the stadium or gymnasium of the school to the students for free or on preferential basis after class, on national holidays, at weekends or in winter and summer vacations shall be ordered by the administrative department of physical culture and sports to make corrections.
Article 44 Where an administrative department, in violation of the provisions in these Regulations, commits any one of the following acts, the person directly in charge and the other person directly responsible shall be given administrative sanctions according to law:
(1) making targets on the students’ enrollment into other schools of higher grade for schools to attain;
(2) ranking schools on the promotion rates or testing scores of the schools;
(3) failing to release the results on monitoring of the physical health status of the students within its administrative region;
(4) committing other acts in violation of these Regulations.
Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions
Article 45 These Regulations shall enter into effect as of September 1, 2009.
