- China decided in October to launch a three-year program to monitor students' health and fitness from 2013. The monitoring will be conducted by a third-party institution and the results will be released to the students' parents. For schools and regions whose students' health keeps declining for three consecutive years, they will be lowly graded in evaluation of educational competence. [Related: Policy cares about students' health]
Students from Wangzhu Primary School compete in a tug-of-war game in Zibo city, Shandong province, Nov 20, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua] |
Yearender 2012 Series about China sports:
Harvest year for Chinese athletics
Bitter-sweet year for Chinese basketball
Chinese badminton makes history but overshadowed by match-fixing scandal