BEIJING, May 3 (Xinhua) — A complete of 11.2 million Chinese kids had benefited from the nation’s vitamin enchancment program by the tip of 2020, in accordance with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
As of the tip of final yr, this system had lined all of the nation’s 832 impoverished counties since its launch in 2012, the middle mentioned.
As a part of this system, free vitamin packages are supplied to infants aged six to 24 months in locations round areas with excessive poverty.
The charges of anaemia and progress retardation amongst kids aged between 6 and 24 months within the areas being monitored have been 16.3 % and three.2 %, respectively, which decreased by 50.5 % and 68.3 % in contrast with figures for 2012, the middle mentioned.
