June 19 (Tang Yanjun) China's primary and secondary school students have great pressure on schoolwork, coupled with the popularity of mobile phones, computers and other electronic products in modern society, resulting in the proportion of myopia caused by excessive use of the eyes, unhygienic use of the eyes, lack of outdoor activities and other factors. Myopia is becoming younger and more severe. Myopia not only hinders the personal development of children and adolescents in our country, but also brings major harm to the development of China's social economy and even national defense and security. Myopia prevention and control work is facing severe challenges.
In April, the Ministry of Education and 15 other ministries and commissions issued a work plan for the prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents (2021-2025), requiring joint efforts to carry out bright actions for the prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents. In this context, it is urgent for all walks of life to work together to explore in depth how to promote the actual implementation of myopia prevention and control policies in the information age and jointly create an optometry health ecosystem.
Recently, the 21st International Conference on Ophthalmology and the 21st International Conference on Optometry (COOC 2021) opened in Shanghai. At the Euclid satellite meeting held at noon on the opening day, the People's Daily Health Client, the People's Daily Health Times, and Euclid jointly announced the official establishment of the People's Eye Health Myopia Prevention and Control Expert Group, and the expert group will collectively enter the People's Daily Health Client to carry out scientific popularization and education work in the field of eye health, especially in the field of myopia prevention and control. This is a useful attempt to concretely implement the Government's work programme.
Professor Sun Xinghuai and Professor Qu Jia, well-known ophthalmologists in China, served as the leaders of the group, 8 experts from Lü Fan, Zhou Xingtao, Sun Xiaodong, Zhao Mingwei, Wei Ruihua, Liu Longqian, Yang Zhikuan and Yang Xiao served as deputy leaders, and 18 optometry experts, including Li Lihua, served as members of the delegation. Government leaders, experts, media representatives and Euclid leaders took the stage to announce the official launch of the "Big Sight Trend for Bright Ensemble" project.
At present, children and adolescents have a trend of myopia showing a trend of young age, high incidence and high myopia, and students wearing glasses can be seen everywhere on campus. Strengthening the prevention and control of myopia in adolescents requires the joint efforts of the government, hospitals, experts, schools, enterprises and the media.
Zhao Anping, a health client of People's Daily and deputy editor-in-chief of People's Daily Health Times, presided over the ceremony. Cao Xianmin, deputy editor-in-chief of Zhao Anping and director of the Publicity Department of the Population and Culture Center of the National Health Commission, and Cui Yuanqi, deputy director of the Health Promotion Department of the Shanghai Health Commission, delivered speeches successively.
"Disseminating myopia prevention and control knowledge and improving people's health literacy is the responsibility of the People's Daily health client", Zhao Anping, deputy editor-in-chief, said that the first members of the People's Eye Health - Myopia Prevention and Control Expert Group are very welcome to invite them to participate in the People's Daily Health To participate in health science and academic exchanges, and actively promote the implementation of myopia prevention and control. It is hoped that through the joint efforts of all parties, the strength of authoritative experts will be gathered to jointly amplify the influence of scientific and authoritative scientific knowledge on the prevention and treatment of myopia, and help the development of China's eye health cause.
Director Cao Xianmin believes that the establishment of the "People's Eye Health - Myopia Prevention and Control Expert Group" is opportune, and hopes that all experts will gather ideological consensus and jointly do eye health education and eye health publicity.
Deputy Director Cui Yuanqi congratulated the establishment of the expert group and reported the progress and achievements of myopia prevention and control in Shanghai. He said that the Shanghai Health Commission will also actively participate in this work, and hopes to establish good interaction with experts to jointly care for the eye health of children and adolescents.
Since its establishment for 25 years, Euclid has been adhering to professionalism and innovation, continuously improving active myopia management, has provided vision products and services to nearly 1 million people around the world, and will focus on clinical research and the Asian market, set up a physician training program to help Asian optometry practitioners.
In recent years, with the continuous progress of orthokeratology lens design and materials, the population of orthokeratology lenses has been broadened. The majority of clinical fitting doctors also hope to be able to carry out in-depth customization under the premise of safety and combined with the individual needs of patients to help patients achieve more ideal visual quality and myopia control effect. In line with this trend, Euclid has devoted himself to the study of geometric algorithms for continuous optimization of products, and launched the A.2021 A.21 A.D. A.D. series and launched an in-depth customized solution for orthokeratology lenses during the COOC 2021 conference. At this exhibition, Euclid solemnly introduced the original intention and product advantages of the redesigned and listed Aiyanrui products. (End)
Editor: Tang Yanjun