On the implementation of nutritional meals for students during school hours, China has formulated laws and regulations, such as the Rules for the Implementation of the Nutritional Improvement Program for Rural Compulsory Education Students, the Outline of the National Medium and Long-Term Educational Reform and Development Plan (2010-2020), the Interim Measures for the Management of Special Funds for the Nutritional Improvement Program for Rural Compulsory Education Students and the Guiding Opinions on the Promotion of Nutritious Meals for Students. Guiding Opinions on Promoting Nutritious Meals for Students, etc.

The Guidance on Promoting Nutritious Meals for Students is a document on the promotion of nutritious meals for students jointly issued by the State Economic and Trade Commission, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health.

On July 24, 2012, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education issued the Interim Measures for the Management of Special Funds for the Nutrition Improvement Program for Rural Compulsory Education Students with No. 231 of Caijiao [2012].

The Student Nutrition Improvement Program is a health program that has been implemented in China since 2011 to address the issue of dining for rural compulsory education students. In order to implement the "National Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan Outline (2010-2020)", to further improve the nutritional status of rural students, to improve the health of rural students, to accelerate the development of rural education, and to promote equity in education.

On June 14, 2012, the Ministry of Education and 15 other departments issued five supporting documents, including the Implementing Rules for the Nutrition Improvement Program for Rural Compulsory Education Students, to ensure the effective implementation of the nutritional feeding program for students.

On May 23, 2012, the Ministry of Education, the Central Propaganda Department and other 15 departments issued the "Nutrition Improvement Program for Rural Compulsory Education Students Implementation Rules" on the basis of No. 2 of the Education and Finance [2012].

Expanded Information:

I. Awareness-raising, the promotion of nutritional meals for students is included in the important agenda and work plan

Experience at home and abroad has shown that the promotion of nutritional meals for students is an effective way to balance the diet and solve the problem of malnutrition in primary and secondary school students, and it is an important initiative to improve the level of health of students and the quality of the nation, and it is also an important step to promote the food industry and catering industry. It is also a breakthrough in promoting the development of the food industry and catering industry. This work is mainly the local responsibility.

All localities should promote student nutrition as an important measure to promote quality education, improve the quality of the Chinese nation included in the work plan, into the education work, and actively create conditions, grasp the pilot, sum up the experience, and gradually expand the promotion.

Provincial capitals, cities and regions with the conditions of the local situation should be combined with the actual development of the "Tenth Five-Year" period of student nutrition and promotion of pilot programs and medium- and long-term planning, and as a matter of concern for the public life of a major event to grasp.

Second, according to local conditions, to explore the development of student nutritional feeding ways and practices

Some cities since the 80s, the initial experience of the pilot shows that the promotion of student nutritional feeding should follow the "government-led, enterprise participation, school organization, parents voluntary" approach, give full play to the government's role in the organization of coordination, mobilizing all relevant departments, production enterprises, and the role of the production enterprises to promote the development of student nutritional feeding.

Mobilizing all relevant departments, production enterprises, primary and secondary schools, civil society and social forces to actively participate.

Economic and trade, education, health departments around the organization of the relevant aspects of the force, unified deployment, carefully organized, to take the necessary supportive policies and measures to promote student nutrition from point to point, from urban to suburban, from large cities to small and medium-sized cities and even the developed towns and villages, actively and steadily carry out, to prevent the emergence of a flurry of self-indulgence and disordered competition.

In the new situation of expanding reform and opening up and the implementation of the socialization of school logistics, to build on the existing work, according to local conditions, to explore the work of student nutritional feeding mode and practice, and constantly improve in practice.

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