National Health Commission： The health awareness of Chinese residents has gradually increased.

　　CCTV News:On December 23rd, the State Council Press Office held a press conference to introduce the Report on Nutrition and Chronic Diseases of China Residents (2020).

　　At the meeting, Li Bin, deputy director of the National Health and Wellness Commission, introduced that residents’ nutrition and chronic diseases are important indicators reflecting the country’s economic and social development, health care level and population health quality. From 2015 to 2019, the National Health and Wellness Commission organized the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Center and the National Cardiovascular Center to carry out a new round of chronic disease and nutrition monitoring for residents in China, covering nearly 600 million people in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), with more than 600,000 people on the spot, which is representative at the national and provincial levels. According to the monitoring results, the Report on Nutrition and Chronic Diseases of Residents in China (2020) was compiled. The results of the report show that in recent years, with the deepening of people’s livelihood projects such as healthy China construction and health poverty alleviation, China’s nutrition improvement and prevention and control of chronic diseases have made positive progress and obvious results. Mainly reflects the following aspects:

　　First, the problems of residents’ physical development and malnutrition have continued to improve, and the gap between urban and rural areas has gradually narrowed.Residents’ intake of dietary energy and macronutrients is sufficient, and their intake of high-quality protein is increasing. The average height of adults continues to increase, and the growth and development level of children and adolescents continues to improve. The growth retardation rate and low weight rate of children under 6 years old have all achieved the national planning goal in 2020, especially the growth retardation problem of rural children has been fundamentally improved. The anemia problem of residents has been continuously improved, and the anemia rate of adults, children and adolescents aged 6-17 and pregnant women has declined to varying degrees.

　　Second, residents’ health awareness has gradually increased, and the prevalence of behavioral risk factors for some chronic diseases has shown a downward trend.In recent years, the smoking rate, the exposure rate of second-hand smoke and the regular drinking rate of residents have all decreased. Family salt reduction has achieved results, with 9.3 grams of cooking salt per capita per day, a decrease of 1.2 grams compared with 2015. Residents’ attention to their own health is also increasing, and the proportion of people who regularly measure health indicators such as weight, blood pressure, blood sugar and blood lipid has increased significantly.

　　Third, the premature mortality rate of major chronic diseases is decreasing year by year, and the labor loss caused by chronic diseases is obviously reduced.In 2019, the premature death rate of Chinese residents due to four major chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, was 16.5%, which was 2 percentage points lower than that of 18.5% in 2015, with a decrease of 10.8%, thus achieving the national planning goal in 2020 ahead of schedule.