The goal is for every student to engage in physical activity for 60 minutes each day.

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The Prime Minister has just approved the Project "Ensuring proper nutrition and increasing physical activity for children, students, and university students to improve health and prevent cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and bronchial asthma in the period 2018 - 2025".

The project aims to improve understanding of proper nutrition and appropriate physical activity among education administrators, teachers, staff, children, students, and parents in order to prevent non-communicable diseases; and to promote proper nutrition and increased physical activity for children, students, and university students.

The project aims to improve the knowledge and capacity of education administrators, teachers, staff, children, students, and parents regarding proper nutrition and increased physical activity to enhance health and prevent non-communicable diseases.

100% of high school and university students receive information on preventing and combating the harmful effects of tobacco; at least 80% of high school students and 100% of university students receive information on preventing and combating the harmful effects of alcohol.

100% of school health staff receive training and education on proper nutrition, principles of meal planning, increased physical activity, and prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.

100% of staff working in collective kitchens in educational and vocational training institutions receive training and education on proper nutrition and food safety and hygiene.

The project aims to improve the rate of proper nutrition practices for children, students, and trainees. Specifically, it strives for at least 90% of educational and vocational training institutions that provide school meals to ensure that children, students, and trainees meet the prescribed nutritional requirements. 100% of preschool and general education institutions will monitor and assess the nutritional status of children and students in accordance with regulations. 100% of educational and vocational training institutions with school canteens will ensure food safety and hygiene; they will not sell food or beverages that are nutritionally unsuitable, of unknown origin, or detrimental to the health of children, students, and trainees.

The project aims for 100% of educational and vocational training institutions to fully implement regulations on physical activity for children, students, and trainees through both regular and extracurricular activities, striving for each student to achieve at least 60 minutes of physical activity per day as recommended by the World Health Organization. 100% of educational and vocational training institutions will also organize communication activities about the benefits of increasing physical activity for children, students, and trainees.

To achieve the above objectives, the Project proposes several key solutions such as:完善政策， ...